Climate averages 1991–2020
Odesa weather
in January.
A cold, fairly dry month: the coolest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Odesa: daytime highs average 2.1°C and nights cool to about -2.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 34 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 02 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Tiraspol (94 km away). In January its highs average 1.6°C, about as warm as Odesa, with 34 mm of precipitation.
Among the 59 cities listed in Ukraine, Odesa ranks 6th of 59 for the warmest January highs and joint 12th of 59 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 59 cities is -0.5°C; Odesa is 2.5°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.4°C to 3.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 34 mm to 28 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
Odesa climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 2.1°C-2.3°C | -2.3°C | 34 | 6.1 | 9.09 h |
| February | 3.4°C-1.7°C | -1.7°C | 28 | 5.5 | 10.310 h |
| March | 7.6°C1.5°C | 1.5°C | 32 | 7.3 | 11.912 h |
| April | 13.5°C6.6°C | 6.6°C | 31 | 7.0 | 13.514 h |
| May | 20.1°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 37 | 7.5 | 15.015 h |
| June | 24.8°C17.6°C | 17.6°C | 44 | 7.9 | 15.716 h |
| July | 27.5°C20.0°C | 20.0°C | 33 | 5.5 | 15.415 h |
| August | 27.3°C19.9°C | 19.9°C | 36 | 4.6 | 14.214 h |
| September | 21.4°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 38 | 5.9 | 12.613 h |
| October | 15.1°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 36 | 5.0 | 11.011 h |
| November | 8.8°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 32 | 5.8 | 9.59 h |
| December | 4.0°C-0.2°C | -0.2°C | 30 | 5.9 | 8.79 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
- Tiraspol in JanuaryMoldova · 94 kmHigh 1.6°C · Low -4.3°C · 34 mm precipitation
- Bender in JanuaryMoldova · 104 kmHigh 1.7°C · Low -4.1°C · 34 mm precipitation
- Mykolayiv in JanuaryUkraine · 110 kmHigh 1.2°C · Low -4.3°C · 33 mm precipitation
- Chisinau in JanuaryMoldova · 155 kmHigh 1.7°C · Low -4.3°C · 33 mm precipitation
- Galaţi in JanuaryRomania · 239 kmHigh 2.8°C · Low -3.8°C · 33 mm rain
- Yevpatoriya in JanuaryUkraine · 248 kmHigh 4.4°C · Low 0.0°C · 34 mm rain
- Iaşi in JanuaryRomania · 251 kmHigh 1.5°C · Low -5.3°C · 28 mm precipitation
- Kropyvnytskyi in JanuaryUkraine · 252 kmHigh -0.5°C · Low -5.5°C · 35 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 Odesa) is explained once on the Odesa year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.