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Where is the sea warmest in the Black Sea in January?

In January the warmest sea in the Black Sea is at Rize, Turkey, at 11.8°C. Nowhere in the region is comfortable for swimming this month — not one of the 47 cities measured reaches 19.0°C.

#CityCountrySeaSwimming
1 Rize Turkey 11.8°C Dangerous
2 Trabzon Turkey 11.8°C Dangerous
3 Batumi Georgia 11.7°C Dangerous
4 Kobuleti Georgia 11.7°C Dangerous
5 Ordu Turkey 11.6°C Dangerous
6 Giresun Turkey 11.6°C Dangerous
7 Poti Georgia 11.6°C Dangerous
8 Gagra Georgia 11.5°C Dangerous
9 Sochi Russia 11.5°C Dangerous
10 Gudauta Georgia 11.5°C Dangerous
11 Sokhumi Georgia 11.4°C Dangerous
12 Ochamchire Georgia 11.4°C Dangerous
13 Anapa Russia 11.4°C Dangerous
14 Tuapse Russia 11.4°C Dangerous
15 Samsun Turkey 11.2°C Dangerous
16 Sinop Turkey 11.2°C Dangerous
17 Gelendzhik Russia 11.2°C Dangerous
18 Istanbul Turkey 11.1°C Dangerous
19 Yalova Turkey 11.1°C Dangerous
20 Tekirdağ Turkey 11.0°C Dangerous
21 Zonguldak Turkey 10.8°C Dangerous
22 Masandra Ukraine 10.7°C Dangerous
23 Feodosiya Ukraine 10.5°C Dangerous
24 Sevastopol Ukraine 10.4°C Dangerous
25 Yevpatoriya Ukraine 9.7°C Dangerous

Ranked on the NOAA OISST monthly climatology — a long-run average for January, not a forecast. A given January will run warmer or cooler than this, and the sea is warmest late in the afternoon and late in the season.

the Black Sea in other months

January elsewhere