Yekaterinburg climate

Name: Yekaterinburg
Address: RU

Yekaterinburg is warmest in July, with average highs of 22 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average -17 °C. July is the wettest month (87 mm) and February the driest (15 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Yekaterinburg averages 526 mm of rain, 22 days above 25 °C and 190 days below freezing.

Russia · population 1,495,066 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month July 22 °C
Coldest month January -17 °C
Driest month February 15 mm
Wettest month July 87 mm
Least cloud June 60 % cloud
Hottest on record July 36 °C
Coldest on record January -40 °C

What to expectYekaterinburg through the year

Yekaterinburg has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from -11 °C in January to 22 °C in July, a swing of 32 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 22 days a year reach 25 °C, 2 of them reach 30 °C, 190 nights drop below freezing. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 36 °C, in July.

Rain is strongly seasonal. July averages 87 mm against 15 mm in February — 6.0 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	-11.2 °C	17 mm	84 %
February	-9.2 °C	15 mm	78 %
March	-1.5 °C	25 mm	73 %
April	7.7 °C	35 mm	66 %
May	15.8 °C	58 mm	60 %
June	20.5 °C	73 mm	60 %
July	22.1 °C	87 mm	60 %
August	19.4 °C	73 mm	67 %
September	13.4 °C	51 mm	73 %
October	5.5 °C	43 mm	80 %
November	-3.9 °C	28 mm	84 %
December	-9.4 °C	21 mm	88 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C	Days below 0 °C
January	-11.2 °C	-17.0 °C	-13.9 °C	2.6 °C	-39.8 °C	0	0	31
February	-9.2 °C	-15.9 °C	-12.4 °C	4.8 °C	-35.3 °C	0	0	28
March	-1.5 °C	-9.3 °C	-5.1 °C	14.6 °C	-26.3 °C	0	0	30
April	7.7 °C	-2.3 °C	3.0 °C	25.0 °C	-18.9 °C	0	0	21
May	15.8 °C	4.8 °C	10.9 °C	29.5 °C	-7.4 °C	2	0	5
June	20.5 °C	10.9 °C	16.2 °C	32.4 °C	-0.8 °C	6	1	0
July	22.1 °C	13.4 °C	18.1 °C	35.7 °C	5.4 °C	9	1	0
August	19.4 °C	11.5 °C	15.6 °C	33.1 °C	2.1 °C	5	1	0
September	13.4 °C	6.2 °C	9.9 °C	29.2 °C	-4.1 °C	1	0	2
October	5.5 °C	0.1 °C	2.9 °C	19.3 °C	-16.7 °C	0	0	15
November	-3.9 °C	-9.0 °C	-6.3 °C	9.7 °C	-36.6 °C	0	0	28
December	-9.4 °C	-14.8 °C	-11.9 °C	2.6 °C	-37.8 °C	0	0	31

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	17 mm	5	7.4 h/day	84 %	80 %	17 km/h
February	15 mm	5	9.5 h/day	78 %	79 %	16 km/h
March	25 mm	6	12 h/day	73 %	78 %	18 km/h
April	35 mm	7	14 h/day	66 %	70 %	18 km/h
May	58 mm	11	16 h/day	60 %	64 %	17 km/h
June	73 mm	13	18 h/day	60 %	68 %	17 km/h
July	87 mm	13	17 h/day	60 %	72 %	15 km/h
August	73 mm	12	15 h/day	67 %	76 %	16 km/h
September	51 mm	10	13 h/day	73 %	77 %	17 km/h
October	43 mm	9	10 h/day	80 %	78 %	18 km/h
November	28 mm	8	8.1 h/day	84 %	80 %	17 km/h
December	21 mm	6	6.8 h/day	88 %	82 %	17 km/h

How Yekaterinburg compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
Yekaterinburg	22 °C	-17 °C	526 mm	22
Kamensk-Ural’skiy · Russia	23 °C	-17 °C	500 mm	31
Nizhny Tagil · Russia	22 °C	-17 °C	568 mm	20
Chelyabinsk · Russia	23 °C	-17 °C	466 mm	34
Zlatoust · Russia	21 °C	-17 °C	600 mm	13
Miass · Russia	22 °C	-18 °C	474 mm	25

Where Yekaterinburg ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The driest places in Europe in December	16th of 50	21 mm
The driest places in Europe in February	17th of 50	15 mm
The driest places in Europe in January	17th of 50	17 mm
The coolest places in Europe in October	18th of 50	5.5 °C
The driest places in Europe in November	18th of 50	28 mm
The driest places in Europe in March	19th of 50	25 mm

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Yekaterinburg.

QuestionsCommon questions about Yekaterinburg’s climate

When is the best time to visit Yekaterinburg?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. June, July, August sit closest to 20 °C on average, July is the warmest month and February the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Yekaterinburg get?

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 22 °C. About 2 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 36 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average -17 °C in January, the coldest month. A normal year has 190 nights below freezing.

Which month is wettest in Yekaterinburg?

July, averaging 87 mm over 13 days with rain. The driest month is February with 15 mm. The year as a whole averages 526 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Yekaterinburg rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Data point: 56.857°, 60.615° (the coordinates the reanalysis values are taken for)
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: monthly rankings, daylight hours, 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.