Climate averages 1991–2020
Moscow weather
in December.
A freezing month with light precipitation: the 10th warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a freezing month in Moscow: daytime highs average -3.3°C and nights cool to about -7.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 37 mm of precipitation on roughly 10 days, which makes December a month with light precipitation (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 7 h 08 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Cherëmushki (10 km away). In December its highs average -3.5°C, about as warm as Moscow, with 37 mm of precipitation.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Moscow ranks joint 81st of 236 for the warmest December highs and joint 88th of 236 for the driest December (precipitation, lowest first). The mean December high of those 236 cities is -5.4°C; Moscow is 2.1°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 1.9°C to -5.2°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 37 mm to 35 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
Moscow climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -5.2°C-10.2°C | -10.2°C | 35 | 9.9 | 7.78 h |
| February | -4.7°C-10.5°C | -10.5°C | 32 | 8.4 | 9.610 h |
| March | 0.9°C-6.3°C | -6.3°C | 33 | 8.4 | 11.812 h |
| April | 10.0°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 36 | 8.8 | 14.114 h |
| May | 17.4°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 58 | 11.2 | 16.216 h |
| June | 21.0°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 72 | 12.2 | 17.417 h |
| July | 23.3°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 75 | 11.8 | 16.917 h |
| August | 21.5°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 66 | 10.5 | 15.115 h |
| September | 15.5°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 57 | 9.4 | 12.813 h |
| October | 8.1°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 57 | 10.7 | 10.510 h |
| November | 0.7°C-3.1°C | -3.1°C | 43 | 9.6 | 8.48 h |
| December, selected | -3.3°C-7.7°C | -7.7°C | 37 | 10.2 | 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
December in nearby cities
- Cherëmushki in DecemberRussia · 10 kmHigh -3.5°C · Low -7.9°C · 37 mm precipitation
- Obruchevo in DecemberRussia · 12 kmHigh -3.6°C · Low -7.9°C · 37 mm precipitation
- Vostochnoe Degunino in DecemberRussia · 15 kmHigh -3.4°C · Low -7.7°C · 39 mm precipitation
- Mytishchi in DecemberRussia · 19 kmHigh -3.3°C · Low -7.5°C · 40 mm precipitation
- Lyubertsy in DecemberRussia · 19 kmHigh -3.2°C · Low -7.5°C · 39 mm precipitation
- Krasnogorsk in DecemberRussia · 19 kmHigh -3.2°C · Low -7.3°C · 37 mm precipitation
- Khimki in DecemberRussia · 20 kmHigh -3.4°C · Low -7.6°C · 39 mm precipitation
- Balashikha in DecemberRussia · 21 kmHigh -3.2°C · Low -7.3°C · 39 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 Moscow) is explained once on the Moscow year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Cherëmushki and Obruchevo lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.