Climate averages 1991–2020
Kazan weather
in January.
A freezing month with light 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 Kazan: daytime highs average -8.0°C and nights cool to about -12.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 39 mm of precipitation on roughly 10 days, which makes January a month with light precipitation (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 7 h 42 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Zelenodolsk (38 km away). In January its highs average -7.8°C, about as warm as Kazan, with 37 mm of precipitation.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Kazan ranks joint 136th of 236 for the warmest January highs and joint 172nd of 236 for the driest January (precipitation, lowest first). The mean January high of those 236 cities is -7.3°C; Kazan is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.2°C to -7.9°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 39 mm to 32 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
Kazan climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | -8.0°C-12.9°C | -12.9°C | 39 | 10.1 | 7.78 h |
| February | -7.9°C-13.1°C | -13.1°C | 32 | 8.3 | 9.610 h |
| March | -1.5°C-7.4°C | -7.4°C | 36 | 8.5 | 11.812 h |
| April | 8.2°C-0.5°C | -0.5°C | 36 | 7.4 | 14.114 h |
| May | 17.6°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 45 | 9.1 | 16.216 h |
| June | 22.0°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 58 | 9.6 | 17.417 h |
| July | 24.1°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 62 | 10.1 | 16.917 h |
| August | 22.0°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 57 | 9.7 | 15.115 h |
| September | 15.8°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 52 | 9.8 | 12.813 h |
| October | 7.6°C2.5°C | 2.5°C | 55 | 11.1 | 10.510 h |
| November | -0.9°C-5.1°C | -5.1°C | 42 | 10.1 | 8.48 h |
| December | -6.1°C-10.8°C | -10.8°C | 41 | 10.4 | 7.17 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
- Zelenodolsk in JanuaryRussia · 38 kmHigh -7.8°C · Low -12.6°C · 37 mm precipitation
- Novocheboksarsk in JanuaryRussia · 108 kmHigh -7.5°C · Low -12.6°C · 36 mm precipitation
- Yoshkar-Ola in JanuaryRussia · 121 kmHigh -7.6°C · Low -12.8°C · 39 mm precipitation
- Cheboksary in JanuaryRussia · 123 kmHigh -7.5°C · Low -12.4°C · 38 mm precipitation
- Ulyanovsk in JanuaryRussia · 169 kmHigh -7.7°C · Low -12.4°C · 30 mm precipitation
- Nizhnekamsk in JanuaryRussia · 170 kmHigh -8.7°C · Low -13.8°C · 34 mm precipitation
- Dimitrovgrad in JanuaryRussia · 178 kmHigh -7.4°C · Low -12.2°C · 39 mm precipitation
- Yelabuga in JanuaryRussia · 183 kmHigh -8.6°C · Low -13.7°C · 33 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 Kazan) is explained once on the Kazan year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.