Satellite: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX (CC BY 4.0). Outline and points © OpenStreetMap contributors / Natural Earth. North up.
In numbers
380km²
Area
95km
Coastline
189m
Highest point
0
People
10°C
Warmest sea
August
10km
To the mainland
When to go to Shumshu
Good all year round.
The sea is warmest in August (10 °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.
Island in Kuril Islands, Russia
Shumshu is an island in Russia. It covers 380 km², with 95 km of coastline. Its highest point rises to 189 m. Nobody lives on it. The nearest mainland is 10 km away.
Getting there
- Yelizovo Airport (PKC)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 305 km in a straight line
- 10 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 Shumshu.
- 3lighthousesMayak Kurbatova, Mayak Chibuynyy, Babushkino Lighthouse
- 12named peaksVysokaya, Height 171, Severnaya and 9 more
- 1ruins and archaeological sites
Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit, inside the island's outline. A low number may only mean nobody has mapped it yet.
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Everything Coastya, Peakyas, Lakeyas and Cascadyas know about what lies inside Shumshu, each with its own numbers.
1lakeLakeyas
Largest lake
0.29km²
Ozero Utinoye
according to Lakeyas
Warmest lake
15.7°C
Ozero Utinoye
surface water, warmest month · according to Lakeyas
1 lakes
on Lakeyas, the lake atlas
- Ozero Utinoye0.29km²
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The shape of the land.
On average the island stands 89 m above the sea. 100 % of it is below 200 m.
- 18 %0–50 m
- 82 %50–200 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.
20 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 | -2 | -1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 0 |
| Night low (°C) | -4 | -5 | -3 | -1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 1 | -2 |
| Sea (°C) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 3 |
| Rain (mm) | 92 | 87 | 95 | 71 | 66 | 79 | 105 | 112 | 120 | 131 | 136 | 114 |
| Wet days | 21 | 19 | 18 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 20 | 22 | 24 |
| Sun h/day | 1.6 | 2.1 | 3.1 | 3.9 | 4.5 | 5.7 | 5.2 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 3.1 | 1.6 | 1.3 |
| Wind (km/h) | 29 | 31 | 29 | 25 | 20 | 17 | 15 | 16 | 22 | 28 | 32 | 31 |
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 | −0.4 | −0.3 | −0.7 | −0.1 | −0.4 | +0.2 | +1.0 | −0.1 | +0.8 | +1.8 | +0.8 | +0.2 |
| 2021 | −0.8 | −0.3 | −0.4 | −0.6 | −0.1 | +0.9 | +1.0 | +1.5 | +0.5 | +0.2 | ±0.0 | +0.4 |
| 2022 | +0.7 | +0.4 | +0.7 | +1.1 | +1.4 | +1.6 | +1.8 | +0.8 | +0.6 | +1.0 | +0.6 | +0.4 |
| 2023 | −0.4 | −0.3 | +0.1 | +0.5 | +0.2 | −0.2 | −0.6 | −0.4 | +0.2 | +0.3 | +0.2 | +0.2 |
| 2024 | +0.3 | +0.1 | −0.2 | +0.2 | ±0.0 | −0.6 | −0.2 | −0.6 | −0.6 | −0.3 | −1.0 | ±0.0 |
| 2025 | +0.4 | +0.9 | +0.2 | +0.6 | +0.9 | ±0.0 | +0.4 | +0.3 | +0.8 | +0.9 | +0.9 | +0.8 |
+1 warmer than usual −1 cooler than usual
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| Names, area, population | Wikidata (Q838500) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Outline | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| 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 | Lakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; 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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