Your holiday weather, at a glance

Russia in December: where is it warmest?

In December, Sochi is the warmest place with 11 °C by day, Yakutsk the coolest with −34 °C. 0 of 55 destinations have good holiday weather.

All destinations in December, warmest first

Long-term averages for the month: daytime high, sea, sunshine and rainy days.

Place	Score	Air	Sea	Sun	Rain days
Sochi	22	11°	13°	3 h	14
Novorossiysk	16	8°	12°	3 h	11
Derbent	16	8°	10°	3 h	7
Makhachkala	28	7°	9°	2 h	5
Krasnodar	16	6°	–	3 h	11
Grozny	24	5°	–	2 h	7
Vladikavkaz	23	4°	–	3 h	7
Kaliningrad	13	3°	–	1 h	12
Rostov-on-Don	19	2°	–	2 h	9
Taganrog	19	2°	4°	2 h	9
Sovetsk	13	2°	–	1 h	12
Astrakhan	27	1°	–	2 h	5
Volgograd	21	−1°	–	1 h	8
Pskov	12	−1°	–	1 h	13
Vyborg	6	−1°	3°	0 h	14
Kronstadt	6	−1°	2°	0 h	14
Voronezh	18	−2°	–	1 h	10
Kursk	16	−2°	–	1 h	10
Smolensk	14	−2°	–	1 h	12
Saint Petersburg	11	−2°	2°	0 h	13
Veliky Novgorod	9	−2°	–	0 h	14
Saratov	21	−3°	–	1 h	8
Tula	15	−3°	–	1 h	11
Moscow	14	−3°	–	1 h	11
Tver	13	−3°	–	0 h	12
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk	23	−4°	–	4 h	8
Vladivostok	36	−5°	3°	5 h	3
Ulyanovsk	19	−5°	–	1 h	9
Tolyatti	19	−5°	–	1 h	9
Samara	18	−5°	–	1 h	9
Nizhny Novgorod	15	−5°	–	1 h	11
Orenburg	21	−6°	–	2 h	8
Murmansk	19	−6°	5°	0 h	9
Arkhangelsk	15	−6°	0°	0 h	11
Kazan	14	−6°	–	1 h	11
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky	14	−7°	3°	3 h	12
Ufa	14	−7°	–	1 h	11
Perm	14	−8°	–	1 h	11
Chelyabinsk	25	−9°	–	2 h	6
Yekaterinburg	24	−9°	–	1 h	7
Barnaul	17	−9°	–	2 h	10
Omsk	24	−10°	–	2 h	7
Tyumen	24	−10°	–	1 h	7
Irkutsk	30	−11°	–	2 h	3
Krasnoyarsk	20	−11°	–	2 h	9
Novosibirsk	14	−11°	–	1 h	11
Tomsk	13	−12°	–	1 h	12
Magadan	16	−13°	0°	2 h	7
Ulan-Ude	30	−14°	–	3 h	3
Khabarovsk	36	−15°	–	5 h	4
Birobidzhan	36	−15°	–	5 h	3
Anadyr	17	−15°	−1°	0 h	6
Vorkuta	14	−15°	–	0 h	11
Norilsk	15	−22°	–	0 h	11
Yakutsk	30	−34°	–	0 h	1

Russia in December: where is it warmest?

The warmest places in December are Sochi (11 °C), Novorossiysk (8 °C) and Derbent (8 °C).

Russia in December: where is the sea warmest?

The sea is warmest at Sochi (13 °C), Novorossiysk (12 °C) and Derbent (10 °C).

Russia in December: where is the weather best?

The best holiday weather in December – warm, sunny and dry – is in Vladivostok, Khabarovsk and Birobidzhan.

Climate averages 1996–2025, not a forecast. Data: Copernicus ERA5 / ERA5-Land via Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0), NOAA OISST, WMO 1991–2020 (NOAA NCEI), GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Sources & licences