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The coolest places in Europe in January

Yakutsk tops the list at -33 °C in January. Ranked from 1991–2020 climate normals across 50 destinations.

# Destination Country Avg high Avg high Rainfall
1 Yakutsk Russia -33 °C -33 °C 2 mm
2 Komsomolsk-on-Amur Russia -18 °C -18 °C 14 mm
3 Bratsk Russia -17 °C -17 °C 9 mm
4 Surgut Russia -17 °C -17 °C 21 mm
5 Nizhnevartovsk Russia -17 °C -17 °C 21 mm
6 Chita Russia -17 °C -17 °C 1 mm
7 Khabarovsk Russia -17 °C -17 °C 8 mm
8 Ulan-Ude Russia -16 °C -16 °C 3 mm
9 Blagoveshchensk Russia -16 °C -16 °C 4 mm
10 Angarsk Russia -15 °C -15 °C 5 mm
11 Tomsk Russia -15 °C -15 °C 27 mm
12 Irkutsk Russia -14 °C -14 °C 6 mm
13 Novosibirsk Russia -14 °C -14 °C 27 mm
14 Krasnoyarsk Russia -14 °C -14 °C 14 mm
15 Kemerovo Russia -14 °C -14 °C 30 mm
16 Abakan Russia -13 °C -13 °C 7 mm
17 Omsk Russia -13 °C -13 °C 15 mm
18 Barnaul Russia -13 °C -13 °C 24 mm
19 Prokop’yevsk Russia -13 °C -13 °C 28 mm
20 Novokuznetsk Russia -13 °C -13 °C 33 mm
21 Tyumen Russia -13 °C -13 °C 18 mm
22 Biysk Russia -12 °C -12 °C 21 mm
23 Rubtsovsk Russia -12 °C -12 °C 23 mm
24 Kurgan Russia -12 °C -12 °C 18 mm
25 Berezniki Russia -12 °C -12 °C 43 mm
26 Yekaterinburg Russia -11 °C -11 °C 17 mm
27 Nizhny Tagil Russia -11 °C -11 °C 20 mm
28 Chelyabinsk Russia -11 °C -11 °C 17 mm
29 Longyearbyen Svalbard and Jan Mayen -11 °C -11 °C 44 mm
30 Kamensk-Ural’skiy Russia -11 °C -11 °C 18 mm
31 Syktyvkar Russia -11 °C -11 °C 33 mm
32 Zlatoust Russia -11 °C -11 °C 19 mm
33 Miass Russia -11 °C -11 °C 15 mm
34 Magnitogorsk Russia -10 °C -10 °C 17 mm
35 Perm Russia -10 °C -10 °C 35 mm
36 Orsk Russia -9.6 °C -9.6 °C 24 mm
37 Ufa Russia -9.5 °C -9.5 °C 39 mm
38 Ussuriysk Russia -9.3 °C -9.3 °C 10 mm
39 Izhevsk Russia -9.3 °C -9.3 °C 39 mm
40 Kirov Russia -9.2 °C -9.2 °C 39 mm
41 Sterlitamak Russia -9.1 °C -9.1 °C 38 mm
42 Naberezhnyye Chelny Russia -8.8 °C -8.8 °C 33 mm
43 Orenburg Russia -8.8 °C -8.8 °C 33 mm
44 Arkhangel’sk Russia -8.5 °C -8.5 °C 32 mm
45 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Russia -8.4 °C -8.4 °C 114 mm
46 Murmansk Russia -8.2 °C -8.2 °C 26 mm
47 Kazan Russia -8.2 °C -8.2 °C 39 mm
48 Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Russia -7.9 °C -7.9 °C 55 mm
49 Severodvinsk Russia -7.7 °C -7.7 °C 29 mm
50 Ulyanovsk Russia -7.7 °C -7.7 °C 31 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.