{"id":15099,"date":"2026-06-26T21:38:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T19:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/?p=15099"},"modified":"2026-06-26T21:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T19:44:14","slug":"kaliningrad-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/kaliningrad-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaliningrad Weather? – A What You Need to Know Post!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Summery Scenes in Kaliningrad and its region 2024-2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

26 June 2026 – Kaliningrad weather? – A What You Need to Know Post!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brr, that\u2019s all I can say. That was a quick post, wasn\u2019t it? My allusion, as distinct from illusion \u2013 that\u2019s one of those that everyone who voted for Starmer has since become acquainted with and will no doubt once again with the installation of Andy Burnham; oh, how fools are easily fooled \u2013 is to my last post <\/a>(It\u2019s sounding over Britain!), the one in which I appear to ratify the collective delusion (delusion this time) that it always snows in Russia, which it most certainly does in a good many Frederick Forsyth and Len Deighton novels and in most mainstream spy films based upon their books. It even snowed in the pop video used to promote Elton John\u2019s Nikita<\/em>. I almost said Akido, but I\u2019ve practised that enough (ooh, my aching joints!), and very nearly Akita, but that\u2019s my brother\u2019s dog, neither of which, as I recall, are remotely connected to snow. Do you remember Peter Snow and his infamous ‘swingometer’, replaced today by Sky News\u2019 military analyst Michael Clarke, who is a hybrid of Peter Snow and a friend of mine called Greg? Sorry, it\u2019s all getting so confusing. That\u2019s flux for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to demonstrate, therefore, that it always snows in Russia, but it doesn\u2019t, well, not here in Kaliningrad at any rate, I\u2019ve whipped out the old photo album and borrowed from myself some lovely, summery, sunny pictures that rather prove my point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaliningrad Weather? – A What You Need to Know Post!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

My previous post <\/a>was built around snowy scenes in Polessk, so I thought it only fair in order to dispel notions that it always snows in Polessk that I contrast those images with their summer counterparts. These photographs show the Deyma River and Polessk Canal, together with the landmark Eagle Bridge. The sun is shining, the snow has gone, the ice has melted, and the boats are out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Here am I, sitting outside K\u00f6nigsberg\u2019s Rossgarten Gate, outside the Rossgarten Gate restaurant. It\u2019s not that they wouldn\u2019t let me in, but the restaurant\u2019s name, Solnechny Kamen<\/em>, which, as you students of Russian know full well, translates to \u2018Sun Stone\u2019, subliminally inspired me to capture the first rays of summer, which were breaking prematurely over the city in the last month of May 2024. Incidentally, I\u2019ve not gone mardy and am not refusing to eat my food because, instead of a pint, I\u2019ve been given a cup of coffee; I\u2019m just thawing out after a long, hard winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Summer in Kaliningrad and its region is not all about beer and sun lounging \u2013 more’s the pity. On the contrary, it\u2019s a time to get things done! Do those knee pads suit me? I\u2019m doing a real conquistador job on upcycling that old open-arm bench, and our good friend, artist and conservationist, and, quite frequently, Immanuel Kant<\/a>, is treating our historic Soviet statue to a summer makeover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When the sun\u2019s out, you want to be outside with it, but as my friend\u2019s father, Mr Wilcox, used to bawl at me whenever I was \u2018holidaying\u2019 at his farm in my youth, \u201cWe\u2019re fighting a war against human nature, Hart!! There\u2019s work to do!!\u201d And you couldn\u2019t say fairer than that, because you daren\u2019t. As his ghostly voice echoes across the decades, I assuage his wrath by turning my hand to a little shabby chicing in the country house hallway. Alright, alright, I admit most of the ideas were Olga’s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And when the work is done … (most of these ideas are mine.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Celebrating summer\u2019s divine attributes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Am I responding to the dulcet tones of my authoritarian guardian Mr Wilcox, or is it just excellent weather to be doing it? All my own work? Leave it out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And when the work is done … it’s time for a libation with the neighbours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Going German bunkers on a hot day in Kaliningrad. Meanwhile, Ginger teaches himself how to hide behind a flower before venturing out onto the terrace to assess how invisible he has become.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Late summer: the last rays of sunlight falter over the Curonian Lagoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\"Olga<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Copyright \u00a9 2018-2026 Mick Hart. All rights reserved.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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