Your holiday weather, at a glance

Russia in January: where is it warmest?

In January, Sochi is the warmest place with 8 °C by day, Yakutsk the coolest with −34 °C. 0 of 55 destinations have good holiday weather.

All destinations in January, warmest first

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

Place	Score	Air	Sea	Sun	Rain days
Sochi	8	8°	11°	4 h	16
Novorossiysk	16	6°	10°	3 h	11
Derbent	16	6°	8°	3 h	7
Makhachkala	27	5°	6°	3 h	5
Krasnodar	17	5°	–	3 h	10
Grozny	23	3°	–	3 h	7
Vladikavkaz	22	2°	–	3 h	8
Kaliningrad	15	1°	–	1 h	11
Astrakhan	30	0°	–	2 h	4
Rostov-on-Don	18	0°	–	2 h	10
Taganrog	17	0°	3°	2 h	10
Sovetsk	13	0°	–	1 h	12
Volgograd	21	−3°	–	2 h	8
Pskov	12	−3°	–	1 h	12
Kursk	18	−4°	–	2 h	10
Voronezh	17	−4°	–	1 h	10
Smolensk	16	−4°	–	1 h	11
Saint Petersburg	13	−4°	0°	1 h	12
Veliky Novgorod	13	−4°	–	1 h	12
Vyborg	9	−4°	1°	1 h	12
Kronstadt	9	−4°	0°	1 h	12
Tula	18	−5°	–	1 h	10
Moscow	17	−5°	–	1 h	10
Tver	16	−5°	–	1 h	10
Saratov	20	−6°	–	2 h	9
Vladivostok	39	−7°	0°	6 h	2
Tolyatti	20	−7°	–	2 h	9
Nizhny Novgorod	16	−7°	–	1 h	10
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk	28	−8°	–	4 h	7
Samara	20	−8°	–	2 h	9
Ulyanovsk	20	−8°	–	1 h	9
Kazan	17	−8°	–	1 h	10
Arkhangelsk	17	−8°	−1°	1 h	10
Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky	14	−8°	1°	3 h	12
Murmansk	22	−9°	4°	0 h	8
Orenburg	20	−9°	–	2 h	9
Ufa	18	−9°	–	2 h	10
Perm	16	−10°	–	1 h	11
Chelyabinsk	27	−11°	–	2 h	6
Yekaterinburg	27	−12°	–	2 h	5
Omsk	27	−13°	–	3 h	5
Tyumen	27	−13°	–	2 h	6
Barnaul	22	−13°	–	3 h	8
Irkutsk	32	−14°	–	4 h	2
Krasnoyarsk	28	−14°	–	2 h	5
Novosibirsk	21	−14°	–	2 h	8
Birobidzhan	38	−15°	–	5 h	2
Tomsk	21	−15°	–	2 h	8
Ulan-Ude	33	−16°	–	4 h	1
Magadan	20	−16°	−1°	3 h	4
Khabarovsk	37	−17°	–	5 h	2
Vorkuta	18	−18°	–	0 h	10
Anadyr	17	−19°	−1°	1 h	6
Norilsk	18	−25°	–	0 h	9
Yakutsk	30	−34°	–	1 h	1

Russia in January: where is it warmest?

The warmest places in January are Sochi (8 °C), Novorossiysk (6 °C) and Derbent (6 °C).

Russia in January: where is the sea warmest?

The sea is warmest at Sochi (11 °C), Novorossiysk (10 °C) and Derbent (8 °C).

Russia in January: where is the weather best?

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

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