Climate averages 1991–2020
Samara weather
in January.
A freezing month with light precipitation: the coolest and the joint 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a freezing month in Samara: daytime highs average -7.8°C and nights cool to about -13.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 36 mm of precipitation on roughly 9 days, which makes January a month with light precipitation (the joint 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 09 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Novokuybyshevsk (18 km away). In January its highs average -7.7°C, about as warm as Samara, with 36 mm of precipitation.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Samara ranks joint 133rd of 236 for the warmest January highs and joint 116th of 236 for the driest January (precipitation, lowest first). The mean January high of those 236 cities is -7.3°C; Samara is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.6°C to -7.2°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 36 mm to 29 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
Samara climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | -7.8°C-13.0°C | -13.0°C | 36 | 8.9 | 8.18 h |
| February | -7.2°C-12.9°C | -12.9°C | 29 | 7.7 | 9.810 h |
| March | -0.5°C-7.1°C | -7.1°C | 33 | 7.6 | 11.812 h |
| April | 10.7°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 38 | 7.5 | 13.914 h |
| May | 19.3°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 37 | 8.2 | 15.816 h |
| June | 23.6°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 49 | 9.3 | 16.917 h |
| July | 25.5°C16.6°C | 16.6°C | 45 | 8.3 | 16.416 h |
| August | 23.8°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 41 | 7.3 | 14.815 h |
| September | 17.6°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 47 | 8.1 | 12.713 h |
| October | 9.1°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 42 | 8.1 | 10.611 h |
| November | -0.1°C-4.3°C | -4.3°C | 36 | 7.7 | 8.79 h |
| December | -6.1°C-10.9°C | -10.9°C | 36 | 9.1 | 7.68 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
- Novokuybyshevsk in JanuaryRussia · 18 kmHigh -7.7°C · Low -13.0°C · 36 mm precipitation
- Chapayevsk in JanuaryRussia · 38 kmHigh -7.1°C · Low -12.5°C · 36 mm precipitation
- Tolyatti in JanuaryRussia · 63 kmHigh -7.5°C · Low -11.9°C · 36 mm precipitation
- Syzran in JanuaryRussia · 111 kmHigh -6.8°C · Low -11.9°C · 36 mm precipitation
- Dimitrovgrad in JanuaryRussia · 117 kmHigh -7.4°C · Low -12.2°C · 39 mm precipitation
- Buzuluk in JanuaryRussia · 150 kmHigh -7.9°C · Low -13.4°C · 34 mm precipitation
- Ulyanovsk in JanuaryRussia · 170 kmHigh -7.7°C · Low -12.4°C · 30 mm precipitation
- Krasnaya Glinka in JanuaryRussia · 195 kmHigh -8.4°C · Low -13.7°C · 41 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 Samara) is explained once on the Samara year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.