Погодник

Погодник (@pogodnik_pogoda_bot) is a Russian-language weather bot that is explicitly paired with its own Telegram channel (@pogodnik_pogoda), which the bio links directly. That pairing is a useful signal: a bot that also runs a companion channel usually means someone is publishing on a schedule, which is a reasonable proxy for the service still being maintained rather than left running unattended.

As a bot, the expected flow is to send /start, tell it your city (by name or by sharing location), and receive a forecast; the channel version instead pushes a daily digest to subscribers who would rather not query anything. Which one suits you depends on whether you want an on-demand answer or a passive morning read.

There is no evidence of a paid tier, subscription, or account requirement beyond picking a city, and the bot does not appear to request a phone number. For a simple "what's the weather in my city today" need in Russian, it is a reasonable, no-friction pick; it does not claim hourly precision or long-range forecasting beyond the basics.