Climate averages 1991–2020
Barnaul weather
in January.
A freezing month with light precipitation: the coolest and the joint 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a freezing month in Barnaul: daytime highs average -13.0°C and nights cool to about -19.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 24 mm of precipitation on roughly 7 days, which makes January a month with light precipitation (the joint 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 07 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Biysk (135 km away). In January its highs average -12.3°C, 0.7°C warmer than Barnaul, with 21 mm of precipitation.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Barnaul ranks joint 195th of 236 for the warmest January highs and joint 58th of 236 for the driest January (precipitation, lowest first). The mean January high of those 236 cities is -7.3°C; Barnaul is 5.7°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 3.3°C to -9.8°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 24 mm to 20 mm.
The annual picture
January 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
Barnaul climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | -13.0°C-19.9°C | -19.9°C | 24 | 7.0 | 8.18 h |
| February | -9.8°C-17.5°C | -17.5°C | 20 | 5.9 | 9.810 h |
| March | -1.9°C-10.5°C | -10.5°C | 24 | 6.7 | 11.812 h |
| April | 9.2°C-1.7°C | -1.7°C | 36 | 7.9 | 14.014 h |
| May | 17.8°C6.0°C | 6.0°C | 50 | 9.9 | 15.816 h |
| June | 23.2°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 63 | 10.6 | 16.917 h |
| July | 24.7°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 80 | 12.2 | 16.516 h |
| August | 22.7°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 54 | 10.0 | 14.815 h |
| September | 16.0°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 44 | 9.6 | 12.813 h |
| October | 7.7°C0.1°C | 0.1°C | 44 | 9.8 | 10.611 h |
| November | -3.3°C-9.6°C | -9.6°C | 49 | 10.7 | 8.79 h |
| December | -10.0°C-17.0°C | -17.0°C | 38 | 10.2 | 7.68 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
January in nearby cities
- Biysk in JanuaryRussia · 135 kmHigh -12.3°C · Low -19.1°C · 21 mm precipitation
- Berdsk in JanuaryRussia · 160 kmHigh -13.9°C · Low -18.9°C · 24 mm precipitation
- Novosibirsk in JanuaryRussia · 192 kmHigh -13.7°C · Low -19.8°C · 26 mm precipitation
- Kisilevsk in JanuaryRussia · 205 kmHigh -12.7°C · Low -19.2°C · 26 mm precipitation
- Kiselëvsk in JanuaryRussia · 205 kmHigh -12.8°C · Low -19.4°C · 26 mm precipitation
- Belovo in JanuaryRussia · 206 kmHigh -12.5°C · Low -19.0°C · 23 mm precipitation
- Prokop’yevsk in JanuaryRussia · 207 kmHigh -12.5°C · Low -19.1°C · 26 mm precipitation
- Leninsk-Kuznetsky in JanuaryRussia · 215 kmHigh -13.4°C · Low -19.8°C · 27 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 Barnaul) is explained once on the Barnaul year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.