Climate averages 1991–2020
Ternopil weather
in December.
A cold month with moderate precipitation: the 11th warmest and the joint 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a cold month in Ternopil: daytime highs average 0.5°C and nights cool to about -3.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 40 mm of precipitation on roughly 10 days, which makes December a month with moderate precipitation (the joint 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 14 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ivano-Frankivsk (95 km away). In December its highs average 1.6°C, 1.1°C warmer than Ternopil, with 41 mm of precipitation.
Among the 59 cities listed in Ukraine, Ternopil ranks joint 31st of 59 for the warmest December highs and joint 23rd of 59 for the driest December (precipitation, lowest first). The mean December high of those 59 cities is 1.1°C; Ternopil is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.
From December to January, average highs fall by 1.3°C to -0.8°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 40 mm to 34 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
Ternopil climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | -0.8°C-5.7°C | -5.7°C | 34 | 9.2 | 8.79 h |
| February | 1.0°C-5.0°C | -5.0°C | 37 | 9.5 | 10.110 h |
| March | 6.0°C-1.8°C | -1.8°C | 45 | 11.2 | 11.912 h |
| April | 13.3°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 52 | 11.3 | 13.714 h |
| May | 18.7°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 73 | 13.6 | 15.315 h |
| June | 22.0°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 87 | 14.0 | 16.216 h |
| July | 23.7°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 99 | 14.4 | 15.816 h |
| August | 23.5°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 70 | 11.2 | 14.414 h |
| September | 18.2°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 67 | 9.8 | 12.713 h |
| October | 12.0°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 45 | 8.5 | 10.811 h |
| November | 5.5°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 40 | 8.8 | 9.29 h |
| December, selected | 0.5°C-3.9°C | -3.9°C | 40 | 9.9 | 8.28 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
- Ivano-Frankivsk in DecemberUkraine · 95 kmHigh 1.6°C · Low -3.8°C · 41 mm precipitation
- Khmelnytskyi in DecemberUkraine · 101 kmHigh 0.3°C · Low -4.1°C · 35 mm precipitation
- Lviv in DecemberUkraine · 117 kmHigh 1.3°C · Low -3.2°C · 46 mm precipitation
- Kamyanets-Podilskyi in DecemberUkraine · 121 kmHigh 1.0°C · Low -3.8°C · 32 mm precipitation
- Rivne in DecemberUkraine · 127 kmHigh 0.9°C · Low -3.2°C · 42 mm precipitation
- Lutsk in DecemberUkraine · 135 kmHigh 1.0°C · Low -3.0°C · 42 mm precipitation
- Chernivtsi in DecemberUkraine · 143 kmHigh 1.3°C · Low -4.4°C · 34 mm precipitation
- Drohobych in DecemberUkraine · 152 kmHigh 1.3°C · Low -3.8°C · 53 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 Ternopil) is explained once on the Ternopil year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.