Russia
Satellite: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX (CC BY 4.0). Outline and points © OpenStreetMap contributors / Natural Earth. North up.
In numbers
3,167km²
Area
535km
Coastline
measured on a simplified outline
1,553m
Highest point
6,799
People
14°C
Warmest sea
September
614km
To the mainland
When to go to Iturup
Good all year round.
The sea is warmest in September (14 °C) and coolest in March (0 °C). The water never reaches 21 °C: bring a wetsuit.
Averages 1991–2020. Sea: NOAA OISST, the water within 35 km of the coast. Air, rain and sun: NASA POWER. Best months weigh warm afternoons (23–30 °C), sea of 24 °C or more and few wet days.
Largest of the Kuril Islands
Iturup is an island in Russia. It covers 3,167 km², with 535 km of coastline. Its highest point rises to 1,553 m. About 6,799 people live on it. The nearest mainland is 614 km away.
Getting there
- Nakashibetsu Airport (SHB)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 282 km in a straight line
- Ferries4 ferry terminals on the island
- 614 km from the mainlanddistance to the nearest continental coast
Plan the trip
Ferries, stays and things to do
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On the island
What you find on Iturup.
- 4beaches
- 5viewpoints
- 4ferry terminals
- 48named peaksBurevestnik, Kamuy, Kedrovaya and 45 more
- 10volcanoesStokap, Chirip, Bogdan Khmelnitskiy and 7 more
- 17waterfalls
- 1ruins and archaeological sites
- 5campsites
- 1hotels, guesthouses and apartments
- 2restaurants, cafés and bars
Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit, inside the island's outline. A low number may only mean nobody has mapped it yet.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Iturup in our other atlases
Everything Coastya, Peakyas, Lakeyas and Cascadyas know about what lies inside Iturup, each with its own numbers.
10beaches and covesCoastya
9lakesLakeyas
5waterfallsCascadyas
Largest lake
5.7km²
Krasivoe
according to Lakeyas
Warmest lake
18.2°C
Lesozavodskoye
surface water, warmest month · according to Lakeyas
Beach with the warmest sea
14.3°C
Bukhta Saratovka
sea in the warmest month · according to Coastya
10 beaches
on Coastya, the beach atlas
- Bukhta Pobochnayacove13.3°C
- Bukhta Sernozavodskayacove13.3°C
- Zaliv Plyazhnyycove13.3°C
- Bukhta Saratovkacove14.3°C
- Bukhta Utinayacove13.4°C
- Bukhta Senokosnayacove13.8°C
- Bukhta Dobryninacove13.8°C
- Bukhta Tsirkcove13.4°C
2 more on CoastyaOpen Coastya ↗
9 lakes
on Lakeyas, the lake atlas
- Krasivoe5.7km²
- Blagodatnoe4.4km²
- Slavnoye2.7km²
- Dobroye2.5km²
- Lesozavodskoye2.1km²
- Kuybyshevskoye1.4km²
- Lebedinoe0.97km²
- Reydovoe0.39km²
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5 waterfalls
on Cascadyas, the waterfall atlas
- Vodopad Antonina
- Vodopad Vova
- Vodopad Zapravochnyy
- Vodopad Marichka
- Vodopad Tat’yana
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The shape of the land.
On average the island stands 247 m above the sea. 56 % of it is below 200 m.
- 17 %0–50 m
- 38 %50–200 m
- 31 %200–500 m
- 12 %500–1,000 m
- 2 %1,000–2,000 m
Share of the island's area in each altitude band, from the Copernicus DEM (30 m, read at 30–240 m on large islands).
Size, for real
Next to islands you may know.
100 km
All outlines drawn to the same scale (Natural Earth and OpenStreetMap).
Month by month
The weather on the island.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afternoon high (°C) | -2 | -3 | -1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 13 | 16 | 15 | 11 | 6 | 1 |
| Night low (°C) | -4 | -6 | -4 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 13 | 12 | 8 | 3 | -2 |
| Sea (°C) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 14 | 14 | 11 | 8 | 5 |
| Rain (mm) | 46 | 51 | 84 | 68 | 76 | 78 | 106 | 141 | 113 | 119 | 103 | 86 |
| Wet days | 12 | 11 | 13 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 15 | 16 | 14 | 15 | 18 | 18 |
| Sun h/day | 1.7 | 2.8 | 4.1 | 4.9 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 4.3 | 3.6 | 4.7 | 3.9 | 2.0 | 1.4 |
| Wind (km/h) | 31 | 29 | 27 | 24 | 21 | 17 | 16 | 17 | 20 | 26 | 30 | 32 |
Averages 1991–2020 for the ~55 km NASA POWER cell over the island; the sea from NOAA OISST.
Recent years
Warmer and cooler years at sea.
Each month's sea temperature compared with its 1991–2020 average, in degrees.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | −0.5 | −1.3 | −1.2 | −1.6 | −0.3 | +0.3 | +1.0 | +0.7 | +1.2 | +2.2 | +1.3 | +0.3 |
| 2021 | −1.4 | −1.3 | −1.3 | −0.5 | −0.9 | +1.4 | +1.6 | +0.9 | +0.3 | +0.9 | +0.4 | +0.4 |
| 2022 | +0.6 | −0.1 | +0.3 | +0.2 | +0.7 | −0.5 | −0.9 | −0.4 | +1.2 | +0.6 | +0.1 | +0.3 |
| 2023 | −0.7 | ±0.0 | +0.7 | +1.1 | +0.9 | +1.3 | +0.1 | +1.5 | +2.7 | +1.8 | +1.2 | +0.8 |
| 2024 | +0.1 | −0.3 | +0.1 | +0.7 | +0.7 | −0.1 | +0.2 | +1.2 | +1.2 | +1.1 | ±0.0 | ±0.0 |
| 2025 | −0.4 | ±0.0 | +0.2 | +0.6 | +0.2 | +0.4 | +1.1 | +2.5 | +1.2 | +1.2 | −0.5 | −0.9 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
Photos
Seen by visitors.
About these numbers
| Names, area, population | Wikidata (Q215727) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Outline | Natural Earth · public domain |
| Sea temperature | NOAA OISST v2.1 · 1991–2020 |
| Climate | NASA POWER · 1991–2020 |
| Relief, 3D model | Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Beaches, ports, lighthouses, trails | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Towns | GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Beaches, mountains, lakes and waterfalls | Coastya, Lakeyas, Cascadyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST; HydroLAKES (Messager et al. 2016) · CC BY 4.0, LakeTEMP (Korver et al. 2024) · CC BY 4.0 |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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