Climate averages 1991–2020
Chernogorsk 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 Chernogorsk: daytime highs average -11.1°C and nights cool to about -17.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 11 mm of precipitation on roughly 4 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 31 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Abakan (15 km away). In December its highs average -10.7°C, about as warm as Chernogorsk, with 13 mm of precipitation.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Chernogorsk ranks joint 204th of 236 for the warmest December highs and 9th of 236 for the driest December (precipitation, lowest first). The mean December high of those 236 cities is -5.4°C; Chernogorsk is 5.7°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 2.7°C to -13.8°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 11 mm to 5.5 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
Chernogorsk climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -13.8°C-20.2°C | -20.2°C | 5.5 | 1.9 | 8.08 h |
| February | -9.1°C-17.7°C | -17.7°C | 6.1 | 2.1 | 9.710 h |
| March | 0.7°C-9.3°C | -9.3°C | 9.5 | 2.7 | 11.812 h |
| April | 10.9°C-1.0°C | -1.0°C | 22 | 6.4 | 14.014 h |
| May | 18.2°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 37 | 9.4 | 15.916 h |
| June | 24.4°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 50 | 9.8 | 17.017 h |
| July | 26.0°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 57 | 10.7 | 16.517 h |
| August | 23.3°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 62 | 11.3 | 14.815 h |
| September | 16.2°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 45 | 9.4 | 12.813 h |
| October | 7.4°C-0.2°C | -0.2°C | 27 | 7.3 | 10.611 h |
| November | -2.7°C-8.4°C | -8.4°C | 17 | 5.2 | 8.69 h |
| December, selected | -11.1°C-17.0°C | -17.0°C | 11 | 3.8 | 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
- Abakan in DecemberRussia · 15 kmHigh -10.7°C · Low -17.0°C · 13 mm precipitation
- Minusinsk in DecemberRussia · 30 kmHigh -10.8°C · Low -17.7°C · 16 mm precipitation
- Mezhdurechensk in DecemberRussia · 214 kmHigh -9.9°C · Low -16.6°C · 85 mm precipitation
- Krasnoyarsk in DecemberRussia · 267 kmHigh -11.1°C · Low -18.3°C · 26 mm precipitation
- Novokuznetsk in DecemberRussia · 274 kmHigh -9.9°C · Low -16.8°C · 50 mm precipitation
- Achinsk in DecemberRussia · 276 kmHigh -11.5°C · Low -18.1°C · 33 mm precipitation
- Prokop’yevsk in DecemberRussia · 301 kmHigh -9.9°C · Low -16.5°C · 39 mm precipitation
- Zheleznogorsk (Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia in DecemberRussia · 304 kmHigh -11.6°C · Low -18.7°C · 32 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 Chernogorsk) is explained once on the Chernogorsk year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.