Climate averages 1991–2020
Abakan weather
in December.
A freezing month with very little precipitation: the 11th warmest and the 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a freezing month in Abakan: daytime highs average -10.7°C and nights cool to about -17.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 13 mm of precipitation on roughly 5 days, which makes December a month with very little precipitation (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 7 h 33 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Chernogorsk (15 km away). In December its highs average -11.1°C, about as warm as Abakan, with 11 mm of precipitation.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Abakan ranks joint 200th of 236 for the warmest December highs and joint 11th of 236 for the driest December (precipitation, lowest first). The mean December high of those 236 cities is -5.4°C; Abakan is 5.3°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 2.8°C to -13.4°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 13 mm to 6.5 mm.
The annual picture
December in context
Monthly precipitation
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Abakan climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -13.4°C-20.4°C | -20.4°C | 6.5 | 2.5 | 8.18 h |
| February | -8.8°C-17.8°C | -17.8°C | 7.1 | 2.5 | 9.710 h |
| March | 1.2°C-9.2°C | -9.2°C | 11 | 3.1 | 11.812 h |
| April | 11.4°C-0.7°C | -0.7°C | 23 | 6.8 | 14.014 h |
| May | 18.5°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 38 | 9.5 | 15.916 h |
| June | 24.7°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 50 | 9.9 | 17.017 h |
| July | 26.2°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 57 | 10.6 | 16.517 h |
| August | 23.5°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 64 | 11.3 | 14.815 h |
| September | 16.5°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 49 | 9.7 | 12.813 h |
| October | 7.7°C-0.1°C | -0.1°C | 30 | 7.8 | 10.611 h |
| November | -2.4°C-8.2°C | -8.2°C | 19 | 5.6 | 8.79 h |
| December, selected | -10.7°C-17.0°C | -17.0°C | 13 | 4.5 | 7.58 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
December in nearby cities
- Chernogorsk in DecemberRussia · 15 kmHigh -11.1°C · Low -17.0°C · 11 mm precipitation
- Minusinsk in DecemberRussia · 19 kmHigh -10.8°C · Low -17.7°C · 16 mm precipitation
- Mezhdurechensk in DecemberRussia · 221 kmHigh -9.9°C · Low -16.6°C · 85 mm precipitation
- Krasnoyarsk in DecemberRussia · 276 kmHigh -11.1°C · Low -18.3°C · 26 mm precipitation
- Novokuznetsk in DecemberRussia · 282 kmHigh -9.9°C · Low -16.8°C · 50 mm precipitation
- Achinsk in DecemberRussia · 290 kmHigh -11.5°C · Low -18.1°C · 33 mm precipitation
- Kyzyl in DecemberRussia · 301 kmHigh -14.3°C · Low -22.0°C · 6.5 mm precipitation
- Prokop’yevsk in DecemberRussia · 310 kmHigh -9.9°C · Low -16.5°C · 39 mm precipitation
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Abakan) is explained once on the Abakan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.