Climate averages 1991–2020

Kemerovo weather
in January.

A freezing month with light precipitation: the coolest and the 3rd driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high -13.4°C Daytime mean, January
Average low -19.3°C Night-time mean, January
Precipitation 30 mm 9 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 8 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Kemerovo · average highYear overview

January is a freezing month in Kemerovo: daytime highs average -13.4°C and nights cool to about -19.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 30 mm of precipitation on roughly 9 days, which makes January a month with light precipitation (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 7 h 47 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Leninsk-Kuznetsky (78 km away). In January its highs average -13.4°C, about as warm as Kemerovo, with 27 mm of precipitation.

Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Kemerovo ranks joint 198th of 236 for the warmest January highs and joint 82nd of 236 for the driest January (precipitation, lowest first). The mean January high of those 236 cities is -7.3°C; Kemerovo is 6.0°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 3.2°C to -10.1°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 30 mm to 23 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -25-20-15-10-5051015202530 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly precipitation

Average total · mm
Average monthly precipitation totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1000

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Kemerovo climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Kemerovo, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowPrecipitation mm/monthWet days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January, selected -13.4°C-19.3°C-19.3°C309.37.88 h
February -10.1°C-16.7°C-16.7°C237.19.610 h
March -2.1°C-9.6°C-9.6°C298.211.812 h
April 7.1°C-2.3°C-2.3°C379.614.114 h
May 15.9°C5.1°C5.1°C5111.116.216 h
June 21.7°C12.1°C12.1°C6511.817.317 h
July 23.9°C15.1°C15.1°C7012.416.817 h
August 21.3°C12.8°C12.8°C7012.215.015 h
September 14.4°C6.5°C6.5°C5811.512.813 h
October 6.0°C-0.4°C-0.4°C5512.510.511 h
November -4.5°C-10.4°C-10.4°C5212.18.48 h
December -10.7°C-17.0°C-17.0°C4611.97.27 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.

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January in nearby cities

Distance from Kemerovo

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Kemerovo) is explained once on the Kemerovo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.