Climate averages 1991–2020
Mykolayiv weather
in December.
A cold, fairly dry month: the joint 10th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cold month in Mykolayiv: daytime highs average 3.0°C and nights cool to about -2.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 32 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes December a fairly dry month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 36 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Odesa (110 km away). In December its highs average 4.0°C, 1.0°C warmer than Mykolayiv, with 30 mm of rain.
Among the 59 cities listed in Ukraine, Mykolayiv ranks joint 7th of 59 for the warmest December highs and joint 2nd of 59 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 59 cities is 1.1°C; Mykolayiv is 1.9°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 1.8°C to 1.2°C, and monthly precipitation rises from 32 mm to 33 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
Mykolayiv climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 1.2°C-4.3°C | -4.3°C | 33 | 6.6 | 9.09 h |
| February | 3.0°C-3.7°C | -3.7°C | 29 | 6.1 | 10.310 h |
| March | 8.2°C-0.1°C | -0.1°C | 33 | 7.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.4°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 34 | 7.0 | 13.614 h |
| May | 21.9°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 44 | 9.0 | 15.015 h |
| June | 26.1°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 53 | 9.0 | 15.816 h |
| July | 28.9°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 34 | 6.6 | 15.515 h |
| August | 28.7°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 37 | 5.3 | 14.214 h |
| September | 22.4°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 42 | 5.8 | 12.613 h |
| October | 15.3°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 30 | 5.2 | 10.911 h |
| November | 7.9°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 33 | 6.1 | 9.49 h |
| December, selected | 3.0°C-2.0°C | -2.0°C | 32 | 6.4 | 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
December in nearby cities
- Odesa in DecemberUkraine · 110 kmHigh 4.0°C · Low -0.2°C · 30 mm rain
- Kryvyy Rih in DecemberUkraine · 148 kmHigh 1.6°C · Low -3.0°C · 35 mm precipitation
- Kropyvnytskyi in DecemberUkraine · 172 kmHigh 1.1°C · Low -3.3°C · 34 mm precipitation
- Tiraspol in DecemberMoldova · 180 kmHigh 3.2°C · Low -2.1°C · 31 mm rain
- Bender in DecemberMoldova · 192 kmHigh 3.2°C · Low -2.0°C · 32 mm rain
- Nikopol in DecemberUkraine · 193 kmHigh 1.5°C · Low -2.3°C · 37 mm precipitation
- Oleksandriya in DecemberUkraine · 207 kmHigh 0.9°C · Low -3.4°C · 36 mm precipitation
- Yevpatoriya in DecemberUkraine · 224 kmHigh 6.2°C · Low 1.9°C · 37 mm rain
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 Mykolayiv) is explained once on the Mykolayiv year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.