Climate averages 1991–2020
Kerch weather
in January.
A cold, fairly dry month: the coolest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Kerch: daytime highs average 3.6°C and nights cool to about 0.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 39 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 09 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Novorossiysk (123 km away). In January its highs average 5.6°C, 2.1°C warmer than Kerch, with 59 mm of rain.
Among the 59 cities listed in Ukraine, Kerch ranks 4th of 59 for the warmest January highs and joint 31st of 59 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 59 cities is -0.5°C; Kerch is 4.1°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 4.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 39 mm to 30 mm.
The annual picture
January 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
Kerch climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 3.6°C0.3°C | 0.3°C | 39 | 8.8 | 9.29 h |
| February | 4.0°C0.4°C | 0.4°C | 30 | 7.5 | 10.410 h |
| March | 7.2°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 35 | 8.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 13.0°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 30 | 6.7 | 13.513 h |
| May | 19.5°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 29 | 6.2 | 14.915 h |
| June | 24.5°C19.9°C | 19.9°C | 35 | 6.7 | 15.616 h |
| July | 27.3°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 19 | 4.5 | 15.315 h |
| August | 27.0°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 27 | 4.6 | 14.114 h |
| September | 21.6°C17.6°C | 17.6°C | 31 | 5.4 | 12.613 h |
| October | 15.6°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 34 | 6.5 | 11.011 h |
| November | 9.4°C6.2°C | 6.2°C | 35 | 6.9 | 9.610 h |
| December | 5.3°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 41 | 8.9 | 8.89 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
January in nearby cities
- Novorossiysk in JanuaryRussia · 123 kmHigh 5.6°C · Low 0.9°C · 59 mm rain
- Berdyansk in JanuaryUkraine · 157 kmHigh 1.0°C · Low -2.2°C · 42 mm precipitation
- Melitopol in JanuaryUkraine · 186 kmHigh 1.5°C · Low -3.6°C · 32 mm precipitation
- Simferopol in JanuaryUkraine · 191 kmHigh 3.4°C · Low -3.0°C · 37 mm rain
- Krasnodar in JanuaryRussia · 199 kmHigh 4.1°C · Low -2.5°C · 63 mm rain
- Yeysk in JanuaryRussia · 204 kmHigh 0.9°C · Low -2.3°C · 49 mm precipitation
- Yalta in JanuaryUkraine · 205 kmHigh 4.7°C · Low 0.3°C · 40 mm rain
- Mariupol in JanuaryUkraine · 210 kmHigh 0.4°C · Low -3.2°C · 46 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 Kerch) is explained once on the Kerch year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.