Essentukov climate is continental, mountain-steppe. Summer is warm with plenty of hot and dry days. Average temperature in July is +20.4 ° C, maximum temperature reaches +37 ° C. Winter not cold, often thaw, but can be cold as -30 ° C. Average temperature in January is -4, -6 ° C. Often there are days with fog (in November and December to 13-14 days). Autumn long, warm, with cool nights. The first frosts occur in mid-October. Spring is very short, already in April, the temperature rapidly rises. Precipitation about 500 mm per year. Average annual relative humidity 65%. Typically a large number of clear, sunny days (280 per year), the number of hours of sunshine per year in 1827. For the duration of sunshine among the resorts of Caucasian Mineral Waters Essentuki in second place after Kislovodsk.