Climate averages 1991–2020
Cherepovets weather
in January.
A freezing month with moderate precipitation: the coolest and the 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a freezing month in Cherepovets: daytime highs average -6.4°C and nights cool to about -10.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 42 mm of precipitation on roughly 12 days, which makes January a month with moderate precipitation (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 7 h 00 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Vologda (113 km away). In January its highs average -7.0°C, 0.5°C cooler than Cherepovets, with 36 mm of precipitation.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Cherepovets ranks joint 113th of 236 for the warmest January highs and joint 210th of 236 for the driest January (precipitation, lowest first). The mean January high of those 236 cities is -7.3°C; Cherepovets is 0.9°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.4°C to -6.0°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 42 mm to 34 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
Cherepovets climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | -6.4°C-10.7°C | -10.7°C | 42 | 11.7 | 7.07 h |
| February | -6.0°C-10.4°C | -10.4°C | 34 | 9.6 | 9.29 h |
| March | -1.0°C-6.4°C | -6.4°C | 36 | 9.5 | 11.812 h |
| April | 6.6°C-0.9°C | -0.9°C | 35 | 8.4 | 14.414 h |
| May | 14.6°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 58 | 11.2 | 16.917 h |
| June | 19.0°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 80 | 11.7 | 18.418 h |
| July | 21.4°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 82 | 12.8 | 17.718 h |
| August | 19.1°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 76 | 12.4 | 15.516 h |
| September | 13.4°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 54 | 10.3 | 12.913 h |
| October | 6.0°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 58 | 12.0 | 10.310 h |
| November | -0.7°C-3.9°C | -3.9°C | 52 | 11.2 | 7.88 h |
| December | -4.2°C-8.1°C | -8.1°C | 47 | 12.2 | 6.36 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
- Vologda in JanuaryRussia · 113 kmHigh -7.0°C · Low -11.9°C · 36 mm precipitation
- Rybinsk in JanuaryRussia · 133 kmHigh -5.7°C · Low -10.3°C · 39 mm precipitation
- Yaroslavl in JanuaryRussia · 203 kmHigh -6.1°C · Low -11.1°C · 40 mm precipitation
- Kostroma in JanuaryRussia · 233 kmHigh -6.5°C · Low -11.3°C · 41 mm precipitation
- Tver in JanuaryRussia · 279 kmHigh -4.7°C · Low -9.4°C · 36 mm precipitation
- Ivanovo in JanuaryRussia · 298 kmHigh -6.3°C · Low -11.4°C · 39 mm precipitation
- Kineshma in JanuaryRussia · 311 kmHigh -6.5°C · Low -11.2°C · 41 mm precipitation
- Sergiyev Posad in JanuaryRussia · 314 kmHigh -5.5°C · Low -10.2°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 Cherepovets) is explained once on the Cherepovets year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.