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The coolest places in the world 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 Daxing’anling China -17 °C -17 °C 6 mm
3 Komsomolsk-on-Amur Russia -17 °C -17 °C 21 mm
4 Hulunbuir China -16 °C -16 °C 5 mm
5 Blagoveshchensk Russia -16 °C -16 °C 7 mm
6 Khabarovsk Russia -15 °C -15 °C 14 mm
7 Chita Russia -15 °C -15 °C 4 mm
8 Bratsk Russia -15 °C -15 °C 16 mm
9 Nizhnevartovsk Russia -14 °C -14 °C 29 mm
10 Surgut Russia -14 °C -14 °C 27 mm
11 Bei’an China -14 °C -14 °C 8 mm
12 Ulan-Ude Russia -14 °C -14 °C 8 mm
13 Angarsk Russia -13 °C -13 °C 9 mm
14 Yichun China -13 °C -13 °C 10 mm
15 Hegang China -13 °C -13 °C 10 mm
16 Suihua China -12 °C -12 °C 8 mm
17 Tomsk Russia -12 °C -12 °C 40 mm
18 Shuangyashan China -12 °C -12 °C 12 mm
19 Jiamusi China -12 °C -12 °C 10 mm
20 Irkutsk Russia -12 °C -12 °C 10 mm
21 Daqing China -11 °C -11 °C 5 mm
22 Krasnoyarsk Russia -11 °C -11 °C 26 mm
23 Qitaihe China -11 °C -11 °C 10 mm
24 Hulan Ergi China -11 °C -11 °C 5 mm
25 Ulan Bator Mongolia -11 °C -11 °C 2 mm
26 Zhaodong China -11 °C -11 °C 7 mm
27 Novosibirsk Russia -11 °C -11 °C 40 mm
28 Kemerovo Russia -11 °C -11 °C 46 mm
29 Harbin China -11 °C -11 °C 8 mm
30 Abakan Russia -11 °C -11 °C 13 mm
31 Omsk Russia -10 °C -10 °C 22 mm
32 Tyumen Russia -10 °C -10 °C 23 mm
33 Barnaul Russia -10 °C -10 °C 38 mm
34 Prokop’yevsk Russia -10 °C -10 °C 40 mm
35 Novokuznetsk Russia -9.9 °C -9.9 °C 49 mm
36 Petropavl Kazakhstan -9.7 °C -9.7 °C 22 mm
37 Longyearbyen Svalbard and Jan Mayen -9.6 °C -9.6 °C 47 mm
38 Xilinhot China -9.5 °C -9.5 °C 4 mm
39 Kurgan Russia -9.5 °C -9.5 °C 23 mm
40 Berezniki Russia -9.5 °C -9.5 °C 45 mm
41 Biysk Russia -9.5 °C -9.5 °C 34 mm
42 Nizhny Tagil Russia -9.4 °C -9.4 °C 21 mm
43 Yekaterinburg Russia -9.4 °C -9.4 °C 21 mm
44 Jixi China -9.4 °C -9.4 °C 10 mm
45 Zlatoust Russia -9.2 °C -9.2 °C 23 mm
46 Nuuk Greenland -9.2 °C -9.2 °C 64 mm
47 Chelyabinsk Russia -9.1 °C -9.1 °C 21 mm
48 Temirtau Kazakhstan -9.1 °C -9.1 °C 23 mm
49 Kamensk-Ural’skiy Russia -9.1 °C -9.1 °C 23 mm
50 Pavlodar Kazakhstan -9.0 °C -9.0 °C 15 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.