Climate averages 1991–2020
Melitopol weather
in January.
A cold 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 cold month in Melitopol: daytime highs average 1.5°C and nights cool to about -3.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 32 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 9 h 00 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Berdyansk (108 km away). In January its highs average 1.0°C, 0.5°C cooler than Melitopol, with 42 mm of precipitation.
Among the 59 cities listed in Ukraine, Melitopol ranks 7th of 59 for the warmest January highs and joint 5th of 59 for the driest January (precipitation, lowest first). The mean January high of those 59 cities is -0.5°C; Melitopol is 2.0°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.6°C to 3.1°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 32 mm to 28 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
Melitopol climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 1.5°C-3.6°C | -3.6°C | 32 | 7.7 | 9.09 h |
| February | 3.1°C-3.4°C | -3.4°C | 28 | 6.0 | 10.310 h |
| March | 8.2°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 35 | 8.3 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.3°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 39 | 7.6 | 13.614 h |
| May | 21.8°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 44 | 8.5 | 15.015 h |
| June | 26.4°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 45 | 8.4 | 15.816 h |
| July | 29.4°C19.3°C | 19.3°C | 35 | 6.2 | 15.515 h |
| August | 29.1°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 31 | 4.8 | 14.214 h |
| September | 22.8°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 33 | 5.2 | 12.613 h |
| October | 15.4°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 28 | 5.4 | 10.911 h |
| November | 7.8°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 32 | 6.2 | 9.49 h |
| December | 3.0°C-1.7°C | -1.7°C | 35 | 6.9 | 8.69 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
- Berdyansk in JanuaryUkraine · 108 kmHigh 1.0°C · Low -2.2°C · 42 mm precipitation
- Nikopol in JanuaryUkraine · 110 kmHigh -0.3°C · Low -4.6°C · 34 mm precipitation
- Zaporizhzhya in JanuaryUkraine · 113 kmHigh -0.1°C · Low -4.9°C · 37 mm precipitation
- Mariupol in JanuaryUkraine · 166 kmHigh 0.4°C · Low -3.2°C · 46 mm precipitation
- Dnipro in JanuaryUkraine · 182 kmHigh -0.8°C · Low -5.7°C · 37 mm precipitation
- Kerch in JanuaryUkraine · 186 kmHigh 3.6°C · Low 0.3°C · 39 mm rain
- Kryvyy Rih in JanuaryUkraine · 190 kmHigh -0.1°C · Low -5.2°C · 36 mm precipitation
- Pavlohrad in JanuaryUkraine · 191 kmHigh -0.9°C · Low -5.9°C · 38 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 Melitopol) is explained once on the Melitopol year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.