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The driest places in Europe in January: ranked by rainfall

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

Top three in January: Chita (1.4 mm) , Yakutsk (2.3 mm) , Ulan-Ude (3.1 mm) . Between first and 50th place the rainfall differs by 29 mm.

# Destination Country Rainfall Avg high Avg low Rainfall Wet days Sunshine Sea temp
1 Chita Russia 1.4 mm -17 °C -29 °C 1 mm 0 217 h –
2 Yakutsk Russia 2.3 mm -33 °C -39 °C 2 mm 1 103 h –
3 Ulan-Ude Russia 3.1 mm -16 °C -28 °C 3 mm 1 216 h –
4 Blagoveshchensk Russia 4.1 mm -16 °C -27 °C 4 mm 1 221 h –
5 Angarsk Russia 4.6 mm -15 °C -26 °C 5 mm 1 197 h –
6 Irkutsk Russia 5.9 mm -14 °C -24 °C 6 mm 2 199 h –
7 Abakan Russia 7.0 mm -13 °C -21 °C 7 mm 2 160 h –
8 Khabarovsk Russia 8.4 mm -17 °C -26 °C 8 mm 2 221 h –
9 Bratsk Russia 8.8 mm -17 °C -22 °C 9 mm 3 122 h –
10 Ussuriysk Russia 10 mm -9.3 °C -20 °C 10 mm 2 250 h –
11 Vladivostok Russia 12 mm -7.0 °C -13 °C 12 mm 2 252 h 0.2 °C
12 Krasnoyarsk Russia 14 mm -14 °C -21 °C 14 mm 4 127 h –
13 Komsomolsk-on-Amur Russia 14 mm -18 °C -26 °C 14 mm 3 203 h –
14 Miass Russia 15 mm -11 °C -18 °C 15 mm 4 131 h –
15 Omsk Russia 15 mm -13 °C -20 °C 15 mm 5 108 h –
16 Astrakhan Russia 15 mm -0.2 °C -5.9 °C 15 mm 4 110 h –
17 Yekaterinburg Russia 17 mm -11 °C -17 °C 17 mm 5 101 h –
18 Chelyabinsk Russia 17 mm -11 °C -17 °C 17 mm 5 125 h –
19 Magnitogorsk Russia 17 mm -10 °C -18 °C 17 mm 5 134 h –
20 Kurgan Russia 18 mm -12 °C -18 °C 18 mm 5 114 h –
21 Tyumen Russia 18 mm -13 °C -19 °C 18 mm 5 103 h –
22 Kamensk-Ural’skiy Russia 18 mm -11 °C -17 °C 18 mm 6 110 h –
23 Zlatoust Russia 19 mm -11 °C -17 °C 19 mm 6 117 h –
24 Nizhny Tagil Russia 20 mm -11 °C -17 °C 20 mm 6 89 h –
25 Surgut Russia 21 mm -17 °C -23 °C 21 mm 7 60 h –
26 Nizhnevartovsk Russia 21 mm -17 °C -23 °C 21 mm 7 57 h –
27 Biysk Russia 21 mm -12 °C -20 °C 21 mm 6 146 h –
28 Rubtsovsk Russia 23 mm -12 °C -19 °C 23 mm 6 153 h –
29 Orsk Russia 24 mm -9.6 °C -16 °C 24 mm 6 117 h –
30 Barnaul Russia 24 mm -13 °C -20 °C 24 mm 7 132 h –
31 Almería Spain 25 mm 16 °C 7.7 °C 25 mm 4 273 h 15 °C
32 Vladikavkaz Russia 26 mm 2.6 °C -6.5 °C 26 mm 6 206 h –
33 Elche Spain 26 mm 15 °C 6.5 °C 26 mm 4 263 h 15 °C
34 Nazran Russia 26 mm 2.2 °C -5.7 °C 26 mm 7 181 h –
35 Murmansk Russia 26 mm -8.2 °C -13 °C 26 mm 8 7 h –
36 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Spain 27 mm 19 °C 15 °C 27 mm 5 303 h 20 °C
37 Tomsk Russia 27 mm -15 °C -21 °C 27 mm 8 95 h –
38 Novosibirsk Russia 27 mm -14 °C -20 °C 27 mm 8 108 h –
39 Makhachkala Russia 27 mm 4.6 °C -0.04 °C 27 mm 7 182 h 5.9 °C
40 Graz Austria 27 mm 3.4 °C -5.3 °C 27 mm 6 174 h –
41 Prokop’yevsk Russia 28 mm -13 °C -20 °C 28 mm 8 124 h –
42 Zaragoza Spain 28 mm 11 °C 3.0 °C 28 mm 6 229 h –
43 Chernivtsi Ukraine 28 mm 0.07 °C -6.4 °C 28 mm 7 139 h –
44 Murcia Spain 28 mm 16 °C 5.2 °C 28 mm 5 261 h –
45 Cartagena Spain 28 mm 15 °C 9.5 °C 28 mm 4 267 h 15 °C
46 Severodvinsk Russia 29 mm -7.7 °C -12 °C 29 mm 9 25 h -0.8 °C
47 Albacete Spain 29 mm 10 °C 1.2 °C 29 mm 5 231 h –
48 Iaşi Romania 29 mm 1.5 °C -5.5 °C 29 mm 7 139 h –
49 Miskolc Hungary 30 mm 2.1 °C -4.2 °C 30 mm 7 142 h –
50 Kemerovo Russia 30 mm -14 °C -20 °C 30 mm 9 110 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

December: top 5

  1. Yakutsk 2.0 mm
  2. Chita 3.6 mm
  3. Blagoveshchensk 7.3 mm
  4. Ulan-Ude 8.0 mm
  5. Angarsk 9.2 mm

Full ranking for December

February: top 5

  1. Chita 1.7 mm
  2. Yakutsk 2.5 mm
  3. Ulan-Ude 3.1 mm
  4. Angarsk 4.7 mm
  5. Blagoveshchensk 5.0 mm

Full ranking for February

How this ranking is built

What is ranked
Total precipitation, in mm, in January, 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.