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The driest places in Europe in January

Chita tops the list at 1.4 mm in January. Ranked from 1991–2020 climate normals across 50 destinations.

# Destination Country Rainfall Avg high Rainfall
1 Chita Russia 1.4 mm -17 °C 1 mm
2 Yakutsk Russia 2.3 mm -33 °C 2 mm
3 Ulan-Ude Russia 3.1 mm -16 °C 3 mm
4 Blagoveshchensk Russia 4.1 mm -16 °C 4 mm
5 Angarsk Russia 4.6 mm -15 °C 5 mm
6 Irkutsk Russia 5.9 mm -14 °C 6 mm
7 Abakan Russia 7.0 mm -13 °C 7 mm
8 Khabarovsk Russia 8.4 mm -17 °C 8 mm
9 Bratsk Russia 8.8 mm -17 °C 9 mm
10 Ussuriysk Russia 10 mm -9.3 °C 10 mm
11 Vladivostok Russia 12 mm -7.0 °C 12 mm
12 Krasnoyarsk Russia 14 mm -14 °C 14 mm
13 Komsomolsk-on-Amur Russia 14 mm -18 °C 14 mm
14 Miass Russia 15 mm -11 °C 15 mm
15 Omsk Russia 15 mm -13 °C 15 mm
16 Astrakhan Russia 15 mm -0.2 °C 15 mm
17 Yekaterinburg Russia 17 mm -11 °C 17 mm
18 Chelyabinsk Russia 17 mm -11 °C 17 mm
19 Magnitogorsk Russia 17 mm -10 °C 17 mm
20 Kurgan Russia 18 mm -12 °C 18 mm
21 Tyumen Russia 18 mm -13 °C 18 mm
22 Kamensk-Ural’skiy Russia 18 mm -11 °C 18 mm
23 Zlatoust Russia 19 mm -11 °C 19 mm
24 Nizhny Tagil Russia 20 mm -11 °C 20 mm
25 Surgut Russia 21 mm -17 °C 21 mm
26 Nizhnevartovsk Russia 21 mm -17 °C 21 mm
27 Biysk Russia 21 mm -12 °C 21 mm
28 Rubtsovsk Russia 23 mm -12 °C 23 mm
29 Orsk Russia 24 mm -9.6 °C 24 mm
30 Barnaul Russia 24 mm -13 °C 24 mm
31 Almería Spain 25 mm 16 °C 25 mm
32 Vladikavkaz Russia 26 mm 2.6 °C 26 mm
33 Elche Spain 26 mm 15 °C 26 mm
34 Nazran Russia 26 mm 2.2 °C 26 mm
35 Murmansk Russia 26 mm -8.2 °C 26 mm
36 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain 27 mm 19 °C 27 mm
37 Tomsk Russia 27 mm -15 °C 27 mm
38 Novosibirsk Russia 27 mm -14 °C 27 mm
39 Makhachkala Russia 27 mm 4.6 °C 27 mm
40 Graz Austria 27 mm 3.4 °C 27 mm
41 Prokop’yevsk Russia 28 mm -13 °C 28 mm
42 Zaragoza Spain 28 mm 11 °C 28 mm
43 Chernivtsi Ukraine 28 mm 0.07 °C 28 mm
44 Murcia Spain 28 mm 16 °C 28 mm
45 Cartagena Spain 28 mm 15 °C 28 mm
46 Severodvinsk Russia 29 mm -7.7 °C 29 mm
47 Albacete Spain 29 mm 10 °C 29 mm
48 Iaşi Romania 29 mm 1.5 °C 29 mm
49 Miskolc Hungary 30 mm 2.1 °C 30 mm
50 Kemerovo Russia 30 mm -14 °C 30 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.