Climate averages 1991–2020
Yekaterinburg weather
in December.
A freezing month with light precipitation: the 11th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a freezing month in Yekaterinburg: daytime highs average -9.5°C and nights cool to about -14.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 20 mm of precipitation on roughly 6 days, which makes December a month with light precipitation (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 6 h 53 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Pervouralsk (41 km away). In December its highs average -9.5°C, about as warm as Yekaterinburg, with 22 mm of precipitation.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Yekaterinburg ranks joint 182nd of 236 for the warmest December highs and joint 21st of 236 for the driest December (precipitation, lowest first). The mean December high of those 236 cities is -5.4°C; Yekaterinburg is 4.1°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 1.8°C to -11.3°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 20 mm to 16 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
Yekaterinburg climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -11.3°C-16.9°C | -16.9°C | 16 | 4.7 | 7.58 h |
| February | -9.2°C-15.6°C | -15.6°C | 14 | 4.4 | 9.49 h |
| March | -1.5°C-8.9°C | -8.9°C | 25 | 6.4 | 11.812 h |
| April | 7.6°C-1.8°C | -1.8°C | 35 | 7.5 | 14.214 h |
| May | 15.7°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 57 | 10.5 | 16.416 h |
| June | 20.4°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 74 | 13.2 | 17.718 h |
| July | 22.0°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 85 | 12.9 | 17.217 h |
| August | 19.3°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 72 | 12.8 | 15.215 h |
| September | 13.4°C6.6°C | 6.6°C | 51 | 10.0 | 12.813 h |
| October | 5.5°C0.4°C | 0.4°C | 42 | 9.1 | 10.410 h |
| November | -4.0°C-8.9°C | -8.9°C | 28 | 7.7 | 8.28 h |
| December, selected | -9.5°C-14.8°C | -14.8°C | 20 | 5.9 | 6.97 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
- Pervouralsk in DecemberRussia · 41 kmHigh -9.5°C · Low -14.7°C · 22 mm precipitation
- Asbest in DecemberRussia · 54 kmHigh -9.6°C · Low -15.3°C · 21 mm precipitation
- Novoural’sk in DecemberRussia · 54 kmHigh -9.6°C · Low -14.8°C · 22 mm precipitation
- Kamensk-Ural’skiy in DecemberRussia · 95 kmHigh -9.0°C · Low -14.5°C · 22 mm precipitation
- Ozersk in DecemberRussia · 123 kmHigh -9.1°C · Low -13.8°C · 20 mm precipitation
- Nizhny Tagil in DecemberRussia · 124 kmHigh -9.4°C · Low -14.6°C · 21 mm precipitation
- Chelyabinsk in DecemberRussia · 195 kmHigh -9.2°C · Low -15.2°C · 21 mm precipitation
- Zlatoust in DecemberRussia · 197 kmHigh -8.7°C · Low -14.8°C · 22 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 Yekaterinburg) is explained once on the Yekaterinburg year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.