Climate averages 1991–2020
Yoshkar-Ola weather
in December.
A freezing month with moderate 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 Yoshkar-Ola: daytime highs average -5.6°C and nights cool to about -10.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 43 mm of precipitation on roughly 11 days, which makes December a month with moderate precipitation (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 6 h 56 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Novocheboksarsk (64 km away). In December its highs average -5.6°C, about as warm as Yoshkar-Ola, with 40 mm of precipitation.
Among the 236 cities listed in Russia, Yoshkar-Ola ranks joint 128th of 236 for the warmest December highs and joint 183rd of 236 for the driest December (precipitation, lowest first). The mean December high of those 236 cities is -5.4°C; Yoshkar-Ola is 0.3°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 1.9°C to -7.6°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 43 mm to 39 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
Yoshkar-Ola climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -7.6°C-12.8°C | -12.8°C | 39 | 10.6 | 7.58 h |
| February | -6.8°C-12.7°C | -12.7°C | 33 | 8.6 | 9.59 h |
| March | -0.5°C-7.1°C | -7.1°C | 37 | 8.8 | 11.812 h |
| April | 8.9°C-0.3°C | -0.3°C | 40 | 9.0 | 14.214 h |
| May | 17.2°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 49 | 9.9 | 16.416 h |
| June | 21.5°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 66 | 11.7 | 17.718 h |
| July | 23.8°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 73 | 11.2 | 17.117 h |
| August | 21.3°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 62 | 10.3 | 15.215 h |
| September | 15.3°C8.3°C | 8.3°C | 58 | 10.8 | 12.813 h |
| October | 7.3°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 61 | 11.5 | 10.410 h |
| November | -0.9°C-5.0°C | -5.0°C | 45 | 10.3 | 8.28 h |
| December, selected | -5.6°C-10.6°C | -10.6°C | 43 | 10.8 | 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
- Novocheboksarsk in DecemberRussia · 64 kmHigh -5.6°C · Low -10.3°C · 40 mm precipitation
- Cheboksary in DecemberRussia · 69 kmHigh -5.6°C · Low -10.2°C · 41 mm precipitation
- Zelenodolsk in DecemberRussia · 97 kmHigh -5.9°C · Low -10.5°C · 40 mm precipitation
- Kazan in DecemberRussia · 121 kmHigh -6.1°C · Low -10.8°C · 41 mm precipitation
- Nizhniy Novgorod in DecemberRussia · 241 kmHigh -4.9°C · Low -9.5°C · 41 mm precipitation
- Kirov in DecemberRussia · 242 kmHigh -7.2°C · Low -12.1°C · 44 mm precipitation
- Kirovo-Chepetsk in DecemberRussia · 248 kmHigh -7.2°C · Low -12.1°C · 44 mm precipitation
- Ulyanovsk in DecemberRussia · 259 kmHigh -5.9°C · Low -10.3°C · 32 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 Yoshkar-Ola) is explained once on the Yoshkar-Ola year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.