Climate averages 1991–2020
Cherkasy 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 Cherkasy: daytime highs average -1.2°C and nights cool to about -5.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 34 mm of precipitation on roughly 8 days, which makes January a month with light precipitation (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 41 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kropyvnytskyi (105 km away). In January its highs average -0.5°C, 0.6°C warmer than Cherkasy, with 35 mm of precipitation.
Among the 59 cities listed in Ukraine, Cherkasy ranks joint 37th of 59 for the warmest January highs and joint 12th of 59 for the driest January (precipitation, lowest first). The mean January high of those 59 cities is -0.5°C; Cherkasy is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.4°C to 0.2°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 34 mm to 31 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
Cherkasy climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | -1.2°C-5.2°C | -5.2°C | 34 | 8.1 | 8.79 h |
| February | 0.2°C-4.9°C | -4.9°C | 31 | 6.8 | 10.110 h |
| March | 5.3°C-1.2°C | -1.2°C | 39 | 8.6 | 11.912 h |
| April | 13.4°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 37 | 8.1 | 13.714 h |
| May | 20.2°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 55 | 9.9 | 15.315 h |
| June | 24.0°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 64 | 10.7 | 16.216 h |
| July | 25.9°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 60 | 9.5 | 15.816 h |
| August | 25.3°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 40 | 6.6 | 14.414 h |
| September | 19.2°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 53 | 8.0 | 12.713 h |
| October | 12.2°C6.7°C | 6.7°C | 41 | 7.4 | 10.811 h |
| November | 5.1°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 38 | 7.3 | 9.29 h |
| December | 0.4°C-3.2°C | -3.2°C | 37 | 8.1 | 8.38 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
- Kropyvnytskyi in JanuaryUkraine · 105 kmHigh -0.5°C · Low -5.5°C · 35 mm precipitation
- Kremenchuk in JanuaryUkraine · 107 kmHigh -0.9°C · Low -5.3°C · 37 mm precipitation
- Oleksandriya in JanuaryUkraine · 115 kmHigh -0.7°C · Low -5.5°C · 36 mm precipitation
- Bila Tserkva in JanuaryUkraine · 145 kmHigh -1.0°C · Low -5.6°C · 31 mm precipitation
- Brovary in JanuaryUkraine · 149 kmHigh -1.3°C · Low -5.6°C · 34 mm precipitation
- Uman in JanuaryUkraine · 154 kmHigh -0.7°C · Low -5.6°C · 32 mm precipitation
- Kyiv in JanuaryUkraine · 157 kmHigh -1.8°C · Low -6.0°C · 34 mm precipitation
- Poltava in JanuaryUkraine · 181 kmHigh -2.0°C · Low -6.7°C · 39 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 Cherkasy) is explained once on the Cherkasy year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.