Climate averages 1991–2020
Chelyabinsk weather
in December.
A freezing month with light precipitation: the 11th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a freezing month in Chelyabinsk: daytime highs average -9.2°C and nights cool to about -15.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 21 mm of precipitation on roughly 6 days, which makes December a month with light precipitation (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 7 h 16 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kopeysk (13 km away). In December its highs average -9.2°C, about as warm as Chelyabinsk, with 20 mm of precipitation.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Chelyabinsk ranks joint 175th of 236 for the warmest December highs and joint 27th of 236 for the driest December (precipitation, lowest first). The mean December high of those 236 cities is -5.4°C; Chelyabinsk is 3.8°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 2.0°C to -11.2°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 21 mm to 17 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
Chelyabinsk climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -11.2°C-17.2°C | -17.2°C | 17 | 5.4 | 7.88 h |
| February | -9.1°C-15.8°C | -15.8°C | 15 | 4.9 | 9.610 h |
| March | -1.4°C-8.9°C | -8.9°C | 24 | 5.7 | 11.812 h |
| April | 9.3°C-0.6°C | -0.6°C | 30 | 7.0 | 14.114 h |
| May | 17.7°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 48 | 8.8 | 16.116 h |
| June | 22.3°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 57 | 10.9 | 17.317 h |
| July | 23.4°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 76 | 11.6 | 16.817 h |
| August | 21.3°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 71 | 11.4 | 15.015 h |
| September | 15.2°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 43 | 8.5 | 12.813 h |
| October | 7.1°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 38 | 9.4 | 10.511 h |
| November | -2.9°C-8.2°C | -8.2°C | 25 | 6.6 | 8.58 h |
| December, selected | -9.2°C-15.2°C | -15.2°C | 21 | 6.0 | 7.37 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
- Kopeysk in DecemberRussia · 13 kmHigh -9.2°C · Low -15.2°C · 20 mm precipitation
- Ozersk in DecemberRussia · 80 kmHigh -9.1°C · Low -13.8°C · 20 mm precipitation
- Miass in DecemberRussia · 85 kmHigh -8.7°C · Low -15.2°C · 18 mm precipitation
- Zlatoust in DecemberRussia · 113 kmHigh -8.7°C · Low -14.8°C · 22 mm precipitation
- Troitsk in DecemberRussia · 119 kmHigh -8.4°C · Low -15.4°C · 20 mm precipitation
- Kamensk-Ural’skiy in DecemberRussia · 142 kmHigh -9.0°C · Low -14.5°C · 22 mm precipitation
- Shadrinsk in DecemberRussia · 173 kmHigh -9.3°C · Low -15.1°C · 23 mm precipitation
- Yekaterinburg in DecemberRussia · 195 kmHigh -9.5°C · Low -14.8°C · 20 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 Chelyabinsk) is explained once on the Chelyabinsk year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.