Climate averages 1991–2020
Kostroma 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 Kostroma: daytime highs average -6.5°C and nights cool to about -11.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 41 mm of precipitation on roughly 11 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 19 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Yaroslavl (64 km away). In January its highs average -6.1°C, about as warm as Kostroma, with 40 mm of precipitation.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Kostroma ranks joint 116th of 236 for the warmest January highs and joint 199th of 236 for the driest January (precipitation, lowest first). The mean January high of those 236 cities is -7.3°C; Kostroma is 0.9°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.5°C to -5.9°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 41 mm to 31 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
Kostroma climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | -6.5°C-11.3°C | -11.3°C | 41 | 11.2 | 7.37 h |
| February | -5.9°C-11.3°C | -11.3°C | 31 | 8.6 | 9.39 h |
| March | -0.4°C-6.9°C | -6.9°C | 35 | 9.2 | 11.812 h |
| April | 8.3°C-0.6°C | -0.6°C | 40 | 9.2 | 14.314 h |
| May | 16.1°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 58 | 11.1 | 16.617 h |
| June | 20.1°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 75 | 11.8 | 18.018 h |
| July | 22.5°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 73 | 12.5 | 17.417 h |
| August | 20.2°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 70 | 12.0 | 15.315 h |
| September | 14.4°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 65 | 11.0 | 12.913 h |
| October | 6.8°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 65 | 12.1 | 10.410 h |
| November | -0.5°C-4.1°C | -4.1°C | 50 | 10.8 | 8.08 h |
| December | -4.4°C-8.7°C | -8.7°C | 42 | 10.4 | 6.77 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
- Yaroslavl in JanuaryRussia · 64 kmHigh -6.1°C · Low -11.1°C · 40 mm precipitation
- Kineshma in JanuaryRussia · 80 kmHigh -6.5°C · Low -11.2°C · 41 mm precipitation
- Ivanovo in JanuaryRussia · 85 kmHigh -6.3°C · Low -11.4°C · 39 mm precipitation
- Rybinsk in JanuaryRussia · 127 kmHigh -5.7°C · Low -10.3°C · 39 mm precipitation
- Kovrov in JanuaryRussia · 158 kmHigh -5.9°C · Low -10.9°C · 36 mm precipitation
- Vologda in JanuaryRussia · 173 kmHigh -7.0°C · Low -11.9°C · 36 mm precipitation
- Vladimir in JanuaryRussia · 184 kmHigh -5.7°C · Low -10.6°C · 35 mm precipitation
- Dzerzhinsk in JanuaryRussia · 228 kmHigh -6.3°C · Low -11.2°C · 35 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 Kostroma) is explained once on the Kostroma year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.