Climate averages 1991–2020
Yessentuki weather
in December.
A cold, fairly dry month: the 10th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cold month in Yessentuki: daytime highs average 3.7°C and nights cool to about -4.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 39 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes December a fairly dry month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 57 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Pyatigorsk (16 km away). In December its highs average 2.4°C, 1.3°C cooler than Yessentuki, with 35 mm of rain.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Yessentuki ranks joint 16th of 236 for the warmest December highs and joint 112th of 236 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 236 cities is -5.4°C; Yessentuki is 9.1°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 1.5°C to 2.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 39 mm to 36 mm.
The annual picture
December in context
Monthly rainfall
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
Yessentuki climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 2.2°C-5.5°C | -5.5°C | 36 | 8.6 | 9.39 h |
| February | 3.2°C-5.2°C | -5.2°C | 36 | 8.1 | 10.410 h |
| March | 7.4°C-1.2°C | -1.2°C | 74 | 13.1 | 11.912 h |
| April | 13.3°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 92 | 13.8 | 13.413 h |
| May | 18.3°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 128 | 16.2 | 14.715 h |
| June | 22.2°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 132 | 15.5 | 15.415 h |
| July | 24.9°C16.1°C | 16.1°C | 99 | 11.8 | 15.115 h |
| August | 24.8°C16.1°C | 16.1°C | 95 | 11.4 | 14.014 h |
| September | 20.1°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 81 | 10.4 | 12.613 h |
| October | 14.7°C6.6°C | 6.6°C | 73 | 10.4 | 11.011 h |
| November | 8.0°C0.4°C | 0.4°C | 46 | 8.0 | 9.710 h |
| December, selected | 3.7°C-4.0°C | -4.0°C | 39 | 8.6 | 9.09 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain 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
- Pyatigorsk in DecemberRussia · 16 kmHigh 2.4°C · Low -4.5°C · 35 mm rain
- Kislovodsk in DecemberRussia · 19 kmHigh 4.6°C · Low -4.4°C · 39 mm rain
- Mineralnye Vody in DecemberRussia · 29 kmHigh 3.5°C · Low -2.9°C · 32 mm rain
- Georgiyevsk in DecemberRussia · 50 kmHigh 3.0°C · Low -3.2°C · 31 mm rain
- Cherkessk in DecemberRussia · 68 kmHigh 3.7°C · Low -5.5°C · 44 mm rain
- Nevinnomyssk in DecemberRussia · 97 kmHigh 3.5°C · Low -3.7°C · 43 mm rain
- Stavropol in DecemberRussia · 130 kmHigh 1.8°C · Low -4.2°C · 45 mm precipitation
- Armavir in DecemberRussia · 174 kmHigh 4.5°C · Low -2.1°C · 50 mm rain
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 Yessentuki) is explained once on the Yessentuki year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Kislovodsk lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.