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The driest places in Europe in December: ranked by rainfall

Yakutsk tops the list at 2.0 mm in December. Ranked from 1991–2020 climate normals across 50 destinations in Europe.

Top three in December: Yakutsk (2.0 mm) , Chita (3.6 mm) , Blagoveshchensk (7.3 mm) . Between first and 50th place the rainfall differs by 33 mm.

# Destination Country Rainfall Avg high Avg low Rainfall Wet days Sunshine Sea temp
1 Yakutsk Russia 2.0 mm -34 °C -39 °C 2 mm 1 71 h –
2 Chita Russia 3.6 mm -15 °C -25 °C 4 mm 1 190 h –
3 Blagoveshchensk Russia 7.3 mm -16 °C -25 °C 7 mm 3 191 h –
4 Ulan-Ude Russia 8.0 mm -14 °C -23 °C 8 mm 3 176 h –
5 Angarsk Russia 9.2 mm -13 °C -22 °C 9 mm 3 163 h –
6 Irkutsk Russia 10 mm -12 °C -20 °C 10 mm 3 165 h –
7 Abakan Russia 13 mm -11 °C -17 °C 13 mm 4 119 h –
8 Khabarovsk Russia 14 mm -15 °C -23 °C 14 mm 3 201 h –
9 Ussuriysk Russia 15 mm -6.9 °C -17 °C 15 mm 3 223 h –
10 Bratsk Russia 16 mm -15 °C -20 °C 16 mm 5 90 h –
11 Vladivostok Russia 17 mm -4.5 °C -10 °C 17 mm 3 226 h 2.7 °C
12 Miass Russia 18 mm -8.8 °C -16 °C 18 mm 6 104 h –
13 Astrakhan Russia 19 mm 1.1 °C -3.8 °C 19 mm 5 97 h –
14 Magnitogorsk Russia 20 mm -8.5 °C -16 °C 20 mm 5 115 h –
15 Komsomolsk-on-Amur Russia 21 mm -17 °C -25 °C 21 mm 4 185 h –
16 Yekaterinburg Russia 21 mm -9.4 °C -15 °C 21 mm 6 72 h –
17 Chelyabinsk Russia 21 mm -9.1 °C -15 °C 21 mm 6 102 h –
18 Nizhny Tagil Russia 21 mm -9.4 °C -15 °C 21 mm 6 65 h –
19 Omsk Russia 22 mm -10 °C -17 °C 22 mm 7 65 h –
20 Kamensk-Ural’skiy Russia 23 mm -9.1 °C -15 °C 23 mm 6 83 h –
21 Elche Spain 23 mm 16 °C 7.5 °C 23 mm 4 249 h 16 °C
22 Tyumen Russia 23 mm -10 °C -17 °C 23 mm 6 70 h –
23 Kurgan Russia 23 mm -9.5 °C -16 °C 23 mm 6 87 h –
24 Zlatoust Russia 23 mm -9.2 °C -15 °C 23 mm 7 88 h –
25 Cartagena Spain 25 mm 16 °C 11 °C 25 mm 4 255 h 16 °C
26 Zaragoza Spain 25 mm 12 °C 3.7 °C 25 mm 6 213 h –
27 Orsk Russia 25 mm -7.2 °C -14 °C 25 mm 7 103 h –
28 Vladikavkaz Russia 26 mm 4.1 °C -5.0 °C 26 mm 6 185 h –
29 Krasnoyarsk Russia 26 mm -11 °C -18 °C 26 mm 8 88 h –
30 Murcia Spain 26 mm 16 °C 6.2 °C 26 mm 4 250 h –
31 Nazran Russia 26 mm 3.6 °C -4.2 °C 26 mm 6 164 h –
32 Surgut Russia 27 mm -14 °C -21 °C 27 mm 8 30 h –
33 Murmansk Russia 28 mm -5.6 °C -10 °C 28 mm 9 0 h –
34 Almería Spain 29 mm 17 °C 9.0 °C 29 mm 4 267 h 16 °C
35 Nizhnevartovsk Russia 29 mm -14 °C -21 °C 29 mm 9 30 h –
36 Makhachkala Russia 29 mm 6.3 °C 1.9 °C 29 mm 6 170 h 8.5 °C
37 Odesa Ukraine 30 mm 3.9 °C -0.4 °C 30 mm 6 116 h 8.0 °C
38 Grozny Russia 30 mm 4.3 °C -2.5 °C 30 mm 7 160 h –
39 Mykolayiv Ukraine 32 mm 3.0 °C -2.1 °C 32 mm 6 107 h –
40 Severodvinsk Russia 32 mm -4.7 °C -8.8 °C 32 mm 10 6 h 0.3 °C
41 Alicante Spain 32 mm 16 °C 9.0 °C 32 mm 5 248 h 16 °C
42 Tiraspol Moldova 33 mm 3.1 °C -2.3 °C 33 mm 6 116 h –
43 Ulyanovsk Russia 33 mm -5.8 °C -10 °C 33 mm 9 56 h –
44 Albacete Spain 33 mm 11 °C 2.2 °C 33 mm 6 219 h –
45 Rubtsovsk Russia 34 mm -8.8 °C -16 °C 34 mm 9 116 h –
46 Biysk Russia 34 mm -9.5 °C -17 °C 34 mm 9 111 h –
47 Chernivtsi Ukraine 34 mm 1.3 °C -4.5 °C 34 mm 8 120 h –
48 Orenburg Russia 34 mm -6.4 °C -13 °C 34 mm 8 84 h –
49 Volgograd Russia 34 mm -1.3 °C -6.0 °C 34 mm 8 79 h –
50 Kropyvnytskyi Ukraine 35 mm 1.1 °C -3.5 °C 35 mm 7 76 h –

Monthly values for the month named in the ranking; only destinations with a published climate page are ranked. Download this ranking as CSV.

The same ranking one month earlier and later

November: top 5

  1. Chita 5.3 mm
  2. Yakutsk 8.6 mm
  3. Ulan-Ude 9.8 mm
  4. Angarsk 10 mm
  5. Irkutsk 13 mm

Full ranking for November

January: top 5

  1. Chita 1.4 mm
  2. Yakutsk 2.3 mm
  3. Ulan-Ude 3.1 mm
  4. Blagoveshchensk 4.1 mm
  5. Angarsk 4.6 mm

Full ranking for January

How this ranking is built

What is ranked
Total precipitation, in mm, in December, lowest first.
Period
1991–2020 climate normals: the same 30 years for every destination, so the list compares like with like.
Who is included
50 destinations in Europe with a published climate page. Neighbouring places that share a climate series are shown once.
Ties
Equal values are ordered by fewest wet days.
Sources
ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis via Open-Meteo; sea temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1. Measured values are reproduced unchanged; only the ordering is ours.

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.