Climate averages 1991–2020
Minusinsk weather
in December.
A freezing month with light 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 Minusinsk: daytime highs average -10.8°C and nights cool to about -17.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 16 mm of precipitation on roughly 5 days, which makes December a month with light precipitation (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 7 h 33 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Abakan (19 km away). In December its highs average -10.7°C, about as warm as Minusinsk, with 13 mm of precipitation.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Minusinsk ranks 202nd of 236 for the warmest December highs and joint 14th of 236 for the driest December (precipitation, lowest first). The mean December high of those 236 cities is -5.4°C; Minusinsk is 5.4°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 2.8°C to -13.6°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 16 mm to 8.1 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
Minusinsk climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -13.6°C-21.2°C | -21.2°C | 8.1 | 2.8 | 8.18 h |
| February | -8.9°C-18.4°C | -18.4°C | 8.5 | 2.8 | 9.710 h |
| March | 0.8°C-9.6°C | -9.6°C | 13 | 3.7 | 11.812 h |
| April | 11.0°C-0.7°C | -0.7°C | 27 | 7.9 | 14.014 h |
| May | 18.2°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 43 | 10.3 | 15.916 h |
| June | 24.4°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 55 | 10.7 | 17.017 h |
| July | 26.1°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 63 | 11.0 | 16.517 h |
| August | 23.4°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 71 | 11.5 | 14.815 h |
| September | 16.3°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 54 | 10.4 | 12.813 h |
| October | 7.6°C-0.2°C | -0.2°C | 34 | 8.9 | 10.611 h |
| November | -2.6°C-8.8°C | -8.8°C | 23 | 6.9 | 8.79 h |
| December, selected | -10.8°C-17.7°C | -17.7°C | 16 | 5.4 | 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 · 19 kmHigh -10.7°C · Low -17.0°C · 13 mm precipitation
- Chernogorsk in DecemberRussia · 30 kmHigh -11.1°C · Low -17.0°C · 11 mm precipitation
- Mezhdurechensk in DecemberRussia · 240 kmHigh -9.9°C · Low -16.6°C · 85 mm precipitation
- Krasnoyarsk in DecemberRussia · 271 kmHigh -11.1°C · Low -18.3°C · 26 mm precipitation
- Kyzyl in DecemberRussia · 288 kmHigh -14.3°C · Low -22.0°C · 6.5 mm precipitation
- Achinsk in DecemberRussia · 296 kmHigh -11.5°C · Low -18.1°C · 33 mm precipitation
- Novokuznetsk in DecemberRussia · 301 kmHigh -9.9°C · Low -16.8°C · 50 mm precipitation
- Zheleznogorsk (Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia in DecemberRussia · 306 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 Minusinsk) is explained once on the Minusinsk year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.