About
Cloudberry is a wild berry picked on bogs and in wet woods in summer. Ripe fruit is amber-yellow and juicy. The season is short.
Fresh harvest season
An orientation window for local open-field harvest in the regions already documented in the atlas — not retail, import, or storage availability.
Atlas regions summary: July 1 – August 10
Regions with data: Leningrad OblastRepublic of Karelia
By region
| Region | Season | Peak | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leningrad Oblast | July 1 – August 10 | July 15 – July 31 | Approximate |
| Republic of Karelia | July 11 – August 10 | — | Approximate |
In the kitchen
Fresh cloudberries are tart, with a distinctive aroma. They are eaten as they are, cooked into jam and preserves, and used in desserts and berry drinks.
Seasonality by region
Republic of Karelia(RU-KR)
Season: July – August; Beginning; Active; Ending BeginningActiveEnding
- Season
- July 11 – August 10
- Confidence
- Approximate
Evidence
Cloudberry. 2026 order: from 11 July in the south and centre, from 18 July in the Arctic. Start 11 July; end 10 August is editorial (short fruiting; the order gives starts only). The Leningrad MK note that cloudberry is already leaving in late August is not copied here. No explicit peak: available sources do not justify a narrower window without false precision.
Sources
Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Republic of Karelia
Official publication 10 July 2026, No. 1001202607100002, registered 7 July 2026 No. 708. The portal copy is a scan; species calendar dates in this package are taken from contemporaneous Minprirody press reprints (SampoTV 360 and AiF Karelia), not from an OCR of the annex.
Karelia 2026 wild-berry harvest start dates (SampoTV 360, 8 July)
SampoTV 360 / Minprirody of the Republic of Karelia / KarRC RAS
8 July 2026: dates on the recommendation of the KarRC RAS Forest and Biology Institute. South and centre: cloudberry from 11 July, bilberry from 25 July, lingonberry from 21 August, cranberry from 12 September. Arctic about a week later. Mass-harvest starts, not season ends. Bilberry is not mapped onto catalog blueberry.
Karelia names berry harvest start dates (AiF Karelia, 8 July 2026)
AiF Karelia / Minprirody of the Republic of Karelia / KarRC RAS
8 July 2026, Petrozavodsk: the same dates as SampoTV, citing Minprirody and KarRC RAS. South/centre: cloudberry 11 July, bilberry 25 July, lingonberry 21 August, cranberry 12 September; Arctic +7 days. No season end.
Leningrad Oblast(RU-LEN)
Season: July – August; Beginning; Peak; Ending BeginningPeakEnding
- Season
- July 1 – August 10
- Peak
- July 15 – July 31
- Confidence
- Approximate
Evidence
Cloudberry. Protected-area directorate 4 July 2024: already picking in all districts. 47 channel: yellow carpet 17–18 July 2022, not yet gone 2 August 2022; ripe 24 July 2023. MK 30 June 2024: earlier than usual, usual season is July. MK 23 August 2023: already leaving. Start 1 July (not late June 2024); peak 15–31 July; end 10 August. The Karelian order is not copied.
Sources
“In places just a yellow carpet”: cloudberry ripe in Leningrad Oblast (47 channel, 18 July 2022)
47 channel / Pavel Glazkov
18 July 2022: cloudberry ripe; biologist Glazkov on 17 July — “in the forest in places just a yellow carpet”; a record year. A peak-collection snapshot, not a start date. Notes are Leningrad Oblast cloudberry only.
Cloudberry hitting yield records in Leningrad Oblast (47 channel, 2 August 2022)
47 channel / Pavel Glazkov
2 August 2022: cloudberry “in full juice,” not yet gone (Vsevolozhsky District); slightly overripe. The season had not ended. Do not reuse the 18 July 2022 slug: that text is the peak.
Cloudberry ripe in Leningrad Oblast woods (47 channel, 24 July 2023)
47 channel / Pavel Glazkov
24 July 2023: cloudberry ripe in the oblast’s woods. Red berries named unripe. One season, not an end calendar. Do not reuse the 2022 slugs.
Cloudberry ripening on Leningrad Oblast bogs (47 channel / protected-area directorate, 4 July 2024)
47 channel / Leningrad Oblast protected-area directorate
4 July 2024, press service of the LO protected-area directorate: cloudberry ripening in all districts; pickers already filling baskets. Active early-July collection, not an end. Do not reuse the 2022–2023 47-channel Glazkov slugs.
Cloudberry season has started in Leningrad Oblast (MK in Leningrad Oblast, 30 June 2024)
MK in Leningrad Oblast
30 June 2024: the season started a little earlier than usual — in July; first picks in Vyborgsky District. The usual season is named as July, not late June. Do not reuse the 23 August 2023 MK slug (lingonberry/cranberry).
Forest harvest: cloudberry already leaving (MK in Leningrad Oblast, 23 August 2023)
MK in Leningrad Oblast
23 August 2023: late August is departing cloudberry. A season tail, not a start or peak. Do not reuse the lingonberry or cranberry slugs from the same article.
