The average yearly temperature of nearly all of European Russia is below freezing, and the average for most of Siberia is freezing or below. In European Russia, the average annual temperature is 0 degrees C; Moscow’s average is 4 degrees C. In Moscow the average midsummer high temperature is 23º, and the average midwinter high temperature is –9º C. The yearly average in southern Siberia is 0 degrees C and in north-central Siberia –9 degrees C. The Pacific port of Vladivostok averages 5 degrees C. The precipitation in most areas is low to moderate. Mountains in the northwest receive as much as 2,000 millimeters annually, and points on the Pacific Coast receive as much as 1,000 millimeters.
