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The coolest places in Europe in December

Yakutsk tops the list at -34 °C in December. Ranked from 1991–2020 climate normals across 50 destinations.

# Destination Country Avg high Avg high Rainfall
1 Yakutsk Russia -34 °C -34 °C 2 mm
2 Komsomolsk-on-Amur Russia -17 °C -17 °C 21 mm
3 Blagoveshchensk Russia -16 °C -16 °C 7 mm
4 Khabarovsk Russia -15 °C -15 °C 14 mm
5 Chita Russia -15 °C -15 °C 4 mm
6 Bratsk Russia -15 °C -15 °C 16 mm
7 Nizhnevartovsk Russia -14 °C -14 °C 29 mm
8 Surgut Russia -14 °C -14 °C 27 mm
9 Ulan-Ude Russia -14 °C -14 °C 8 mm
10 Angarsk Russia -13 °C -13 °C 9 mm
11 Tomsk Russia -12 °C -12 °C 40 mm
12 Irkutsk Russia -12 °C -12 °C 10 mm
13 Krasnoyarsk Russia -11 °C -11 °C 26 mm
14 Novosibirsk Russia -11 °C -11 °C 40 mm
15 Kemerovo Russia -11 °C -11 °C 46 mm
16 Abakan Russia -11 °C -11 °C 13 mm
17 Omsk Russia -10 °C -10 °C 22 mm
18 Tyumen Russia -10 °C -10 °C 23 mm
19 Barnaul Russia -10 °C -10 °C 38 mm
20 Prokop’yevsk Russia -10 °C -10 °C 40 mm
21 Novokuznetsk Russia -9.9 °C -9.9 °C 49 mm
22 Longyearbyen Svalbard and Jan Mayen -9.6 °C -9.6 °C 47 mm
23 Kurgan Russia -9.5 °C -9.5 °C 23 mm
24 Berezniki Russia -9.5 °C -9.5 °C 45 mm
25 Biysk Russia -9.5 °C -9.5 °C 34 mm
26 Nizhny Tagil Russia -9.4 °C -9.4 °C 21 mm
27 Yekaterinburg Russia -9.4 °C -9.4 °C 21 mm
28 Zlatoust Russia -9.2 °C -9.2 °C 23 mm
29 Chelyabinsk Russia -9.1 °C -9.1 °C 21 mm
30 Kamensk-Ural’skiy Russia -9.1 °C -9.1 °C 23 mm
31 Miass Russia -8.8 °C -8.8 °C 18 mm
32 Rubtsovsk Russia -8.8 °C -8.8 °C 34 mm
33 Perm Russia -8.6 °C -8.6 °C 40 mm
34 Magnitogorsk Russia -8.5 °C -8.5 °C 20 mm
35 Syktyvkar Russia -8.2 °C -8.2 °C 38 mm
36 Ufa Russia -7.9 °C -7.9 °C 45 mm
37 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Russia -7.6 °C -7.6 °C 119 mm
38 Izhevsk Russia -7.5 °C -7.5 °C 42 mm
39 Sterlitamak Russia -7.5 °C -7.5 °C 44 mm
40 Orsk Russia -7.2 °C -7.2 °C 25 mm
41 Kirov Russia -7.1 °C -7.1 °C 45 mm
42 Naberezhnyye Chelny Russia -6.9 °C -6.9 °C 37 mm
43 Ussuriysk Russia -6.9 °C -6.9 °C 15 mm
44 Orenburg Russia -6.4 °C -6.4 °C 34 mm
45 Kazan Russia -6.1 °C -6.1 °C 42 mm
46 Samara Russia -5.8 °C -5.8 °C 37 mm
47 Ulyanovsk Russia -5.8 °C -5.8 °C 33 mm
48 Tolyatti Russia -5.7 °C -5.7 °C 37 mm
49 Murmansk Russia -5.6 °C -5.6 °C 28 mm
50 Cheboksary Russia -5.5 °C -5.5 °C 41 mm

Only destinations with a published page for that month are ranked. The ranking is ours; the underlying values are reproduced from the source.

Data sources and method

Normal period
1991–2020
Dataset version
era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: ranking order, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.