Climate averages 1991–2020
Dnipro weather
in January.
A freezing month with light precipitation: the coolest and the joint 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a freezing month in Dnipro: daytime highs average -0.8°C and nights cool to about -5.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 37 mm of precipitation on roughly 8 days, which makes January a month with light precipitation (the joint 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 48 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Samar (24 km away). In January its highs average -1.0°C, about as warm as Dnipro, with 39 mm of precipitation.
Among the 59 cities listed in Ukraine, Dnipro ranks joint 26th of 59 for the warmest January highs and joint 23rd of 59 for the driest January (precipitation, lowest first). The mean January high of those 59 cities is -0.5°C; Dnipro is 0.4°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.4°C to 0.6°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 37 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
Dnipro climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | -0.8°C-5.7°C | -5.7°C | 37 | 8.3 | 8.89 h |
| February | 0.6°C-5.7°C | -5.7°C | 31 | 6.9 | 10.210 h |
| March | 6.6°C-1.5°C | -1.5°C | 41 | 9.1 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.8°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 43 | 8.1 | 13.614 h |
| May | 21.3°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 50 | 9.1 | 15.215 h |
| June | 25.3°C16.0°C | 16.0°C | 54 | 9.7 | 16.016 h |
| July | 27.7°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 45 | 8.2 | 15.716 h |
| August | 27.3°C17.6°C | 17.6°C | 37 | 5.3 | 14.314 h |
| September | 21.0°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 46 | 6.6 | 12.613 h |
| October | 13.6°C6.5°C | 6.5°C | 36 | 6.8 | 10.911 h |
| November | 5.8°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 36 | 6.8 | 9.39 h |
| December | 0.9°C-3.5°C | -3.5°C | 37 | 7.8 | 8.48 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
- Samar in JanuaryUkraine · 24 kmHigh -1.0°C · Low -5.9°C · 39 mm precipitation
- Kamyanske in JanuaryUkraine · 33 kmHigh -0.8°C · Low -5.6°C · 38 mm precipitation
- Pavlohrad in JanuaryUkraine · 61 kmHigh -0.9°C · Low -5.9°C · 38 mm precipitation
- Zaporizhzhya in JanuaryUkraine · 69 kmHigh -0.1°C · Low -4.9°C · 37 mm precipitation
- Nikopol in JanuaryUkraine · 111 kmHigh -0.3°C · Low -4.6°C · 34 mm precipitation
- Poltava in JanuaryUkraine · 130 kmHigh -2.0°C · Low -6.7°C · 39 mm precipitation
- Kremenchuk in JanuaryUkraine · 137 kmHigh -0.9°C · Low -5.3°C · 37 mm precipitation
- Kryvyy Rih in JanuaryUkraine · 137 kmHigh -0.1°C · Low -5.2°C · 36 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 Dnipro) is explained once on the Dnipro year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.