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New Siberia

6,201 km² of land in the East Siberian Sea.

N 20 km

Satellite: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX (CC BY 4.0). Outline and points © OpenStreetMap contributors / Natural Earth. North up.

In numbers

6,201km²

Area

462km

Coastline

measured on a simplified outline

79m

Highest point

People

1°C

Warmest sea

August

240km

To the mainland

When to go to New Siberia

Good all year round.

The sea is warmest in August (1 °C) and coolest in January (-2 °C). The water never reaches 21 °C: bring a wetsuit.

-2°-23°-27°

Jan4

-2°-23°-28°

Feb4

-2°-19°-24°

Mar4

-2°-12°-17°

Apr4

-1°-4°-8°

May8

0°2°-1°

Jun10

0°4°1°

Jul13

1°4°1°

Aug13

1°1°-1°

Sep13

-1°-6°-8°

Oct12

-2°-16°-20°

Nov6

-2°-22°-26°

Dec4

Sea temperature (the water level) Air: night low to afternoon high Wet days

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.

Island in Anzhu Islands, Russia

New Siberia is an island in Russia. It covers 6,201 km², with 462 km of coastline. Its highest point rises to 79 m. Nobody lives on it. The nearest mainland is 240 km away.

Getting there

240 km from the mainlanddistance to the nearest continental coast

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The shape of the land.

On average the island stands 11 m above the sea. 100 % of it is below 200 m.

100 %0–50 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.

New Siberia6,201 km²

Cyprus9,282 km²

Crete8,286 km²

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)	-23	-23	-19	-12	-4	2	4	4	1	-6	-16	-22
Night low (°C)	-27	-28	-24	-17	-8	-1	1	1	-1	-8	-20	-26
Sea (°C)	-2	-2	-2	-2	-1	0	0	1	1	-1	-2	-2
Rain (mm)	15	14	16	19	30	41	59	52	46	35	20	16
Wet days	4	4	4	4	8	10	13	13	13	12	6	4
Sun h/day	—	1.8	7.5	11.3	9.7	9.1	6.0	3.6	1.6	0.3	0.0	—
Wind (km/h)	18	19	19	19	20	21	22	21	21	20	19	18

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	+0.5	+0.4	+0.4	+0.2	−0.4	−0.2	+0.8	+1.6	+1.2	+0.5	+0.4
2021	+0.5	+0.5	+0.4	+0.4	±0.0	−0.4	−0.3	+1.2	+1.3	+0.2	+0.4	+0.4
2022	+0.5	+0.5	+0.4	+0.4	±0.0	−0.4	−0.5	+0.5	+1.0	+0.4	+0.4	+0.4
2023	+0.5	+0.5	+0.4	+0.4	±0.0	−0.4	−0.5	±0.0	+0.6	+0.5	+0.4	+0.4
2024	+0.5	+0.5	+0.4	+0.4	±0.0	−0.4	±0.0	+1.4	+1.2	+0.4	+0.4	+0.4
2025	+0.5	+0.5	+0.5	+0.6	+0.2	−0.1	+0.1	±0.0	+0.6	+0.4	+0.6	+0.5

+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual

Nearby

More islands nearby.

Zhokhov Island

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Bennett Island

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Kotelny Island

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Maly Lyakhovsky

Russia888 km²33 m254 km away

Bolshoy Lyakhovsky Island

Russia5,157 km²311 m268 km away

Henrietta Island

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Belkovsky Island

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Stolbovoy Island

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About these numbers

Names, area, population	Wikidata (Q860726) · 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

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.

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