Climate averages 1991–2020
Yekaterinburg weather
in January.
A freezing month with light precipitation: the coolest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a freezing month in Yekaterinburg: daytime highs average -11.3°C and nights cool to about -16.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 16 mm of precipitation on roughly 5 days, which makes January a month with light precipitation (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 7 h 30 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Pervouralsk (41 km away). In January its highs average -11.2°C, about as warm as Yekaterinburg, with 18 mm of precipitation.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Yekaterinburg ranks joint 178th of 236 for the warmest January highs and joint 28th of 236 for the driest January (precipitation, lowest first). The mean January high of those 236 cities is -7.3°C; Yekaterinburg is 3.9°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.1°C to -9.2°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 16 mm to 14 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
Yekaterinburg climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | -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 | -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
January in nearby cities
- Pervouralsk in JanuaryRussia · 41 kmHigh -11.2°C · Low -16.5°C · 18 mm precipitation
- Asbest in JanuaryRussia · 54 kmHigh -11.4°C · Low -17.6°C · 18 mm precipitation
- Novoural’sk in JanuaryRussia · 54 kmHigh -11.3°C · Low -16.8°C · 18 mm precipitation
- Kamensk-Ural’skiy in JanuaryRussia · 95 kmHigh -10.7°C · Low -16.7°C · 18 mm precipitation
- Ozersk in JanuaryRussia · 123 kmHigh -11.0°C · Low -15.8°C · 16 mm precipitation
- Nizhny Tagil in JanuaryRussia · 124 kmHigh -11.2°C · Low -16.7°C · 19 mm precipitation
- Chelyabinsk in JanuaryRussia · 195 kmHigh -11.2°C · Low -17.2°C · 17 mm precipitation
- Zlatoust in JanuaryRussia · 197 kmHigh -10.2°C · Low -16.3°C · 17 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.