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The coolest places in the world 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 Hulunbuir China -18 °C -18 °C 3 mm
4 Bratsk Russia -17 °C -17 °C 9 mm
5 Surgut Russia -17 °C -17 °C 21 mm
6 Nizhnevartovsk Russia -17 °C -17 °C 21 mm
7 Daxing’anling China -17 °C -17 °C 5 mm
8 Chita Russia -17 °C -17 °C 1 mm
9 Khabarovsk Russia -17 °C -17 °C 8 mm
10 Ulan-Ude Russia -16 °C -16 °C 3 mm
11 Blagoveshchensk Russia -16 °C -16 °C 4 mm
12 Angarsk Russia -15 °C -15 °C 5 mm
13 Bei’an China -15 °C -15 °C 4 mm
14 Tomsk Russia -15 °C -15 °C 27 mm
15 Suihua China -15 °C -15 °C 4 mm
16 Yichun China -14 °C -14 °C 5 mm
17 Irkutsk Russia -14 °C -14 °C 6 mm
18 Novosibirsk Russia -14 °C -14 °C 27 mm
19 Krasnoyarsk Russia -14 °C -14 °C 14 mm
20 Hegang China -14 °C -14 °C 5 mm
21 Kemerovo Russia -14 °C -14 °C 30 mm
22 Shuangyashan China -13 °C -13 °C 7 mm
23 Abakan Russia -13 °C -13 °C 7 mm
24 Daqing China -13 °C -13 °C 3 mm
25 Omsk Russia -13 °C -13 °C 15 mm
26 Jiamusi China -13 °C -13 °C 6 mm
27 Barnaul Russia -13 °C -13 °C 24 mm
28 Qitaihe China -13 °C -13 °C 7 mm
29 Harbin China -13 °C -13 °C 4 mm
30 Zhaodong China -13 °C -13 °C 3 mm
31 Prokop’yevsk Russia -13 °C -13 °C 28 mm
32 Novokuznetsk Russia -13 °C -13 °C 33 mm
33 Tyumen Russia -13 °C -13 °C 18 mm
34 Hulan Ergi China -13 °C -13 °C 2 mm
35 Ulan Bator Mongolia -13 °C -13 °C 2 mm
36 Biysk Russia -12 °C -12 °C 21 mm
37 Pavlodar Kazakhstan -12 °C -12 °C 11 mm
38 Petropavl Kazakhstan -12 °C -12 °C 16 mm
39 Rubtsovsk Russia -12 °C -12 °C 23 mm
40 Kurgan Russia -12 °C -12 °C 18 mm
41 Berezniki Russia -12 °C -12 °C 43 mm
42 Temirtau Kazakhstan -11 °C -11 °C 18 mm
43 Winnipeg Canada -11 °C -11 °C 17 mm
44 Jixi China -11 °C -11 °C 7 mm
45 Nuuk Greenland -11 °C -11 °C 60 mm
46 Yekaterinburg Russia -11 °C -11 °C 17 mm
47 Xilinhot China -11 °C -11 °C 2 mm
48 Nizhny Tagil Russia -11 °C -11 °C 20 mm
49 Semey Kazakhstan -11 °C -11 °C 17 mm
50 Chelyabinsk Russia -11 °C -11 °C 17 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.