Climate averages 1991–2020
Innsbruck weather
in January.
A cold, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
Approximate: the model cell is 642 m higher than the city, so the temperatures are adjusted up by 4.2°C. For places not marked Approximate, the cell is within 400 m of the place's elevation.
January is a cold month in Innsbruck: daytime highs average 3.9°C and nights cool to about -6.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 83 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 57 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Bolzano (86 km away, marked approximate). In January its highs average 6.3°C, 2.4°C warmer than Innsbruck, with 52 mm of rain.
Among the 6 cities listed in Austria, Innsbruck ranks 1st of 6 for the warmest January highs and 5th of 6 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 6 cities is 3.3°C; Innsbruck is 0.6°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.7°C to 5.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 83 mm to 79 mm.
The annual picture
January in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Innsbruck climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 3.9°C-6.1°C | -6.1°C | 83 | 12.5 | 8.99 h |
| February | 5.6°C-4.4°C | -4.4°C | 79 | 12.6 | 10.210 h |
| March | 9.0°C-0.3°C | -0.3°C | 110 | 15.6 | 11.912 h |
| April | 12.5°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 115 | 16.1 | 13.614 h |
| May | 17.7°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 177 | 21.3 | 15.115 h |
| June | 21.6°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 198 | 21.4 | 15.916 h |
| July | 23.5°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 203 | 21.0 | 15.516 h |
| August | 23.4°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 206 | 20.0 | 14.214 h |
| September | 19.5°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 139 | 15.6 | 12.613 h |
| October | 15.5°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 118 | 13.4 | 10.911 h |
| November | 9.3°C-0.3°C | -0.3°C | 106 | 12.9 | 9.49 h |
| December | 4.6°C-4.9°C | -4.9°C | 96 | 13.5 | 8.69 h |
Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.
Compare places
January in nearby cities
- Bolzano (approximate) in JanuaryItaly · 86 kmHigh 6.3°C · Low -2.8°C · 52 mm rain
- Munich in JanuaryGermany · 98 kmHigh 3.4°C · Low -3.5°C · 62 mm rain
- Augsburg in JanuaryGermany · 129 kmHigh 3.5°C · Low -2.6°C · 64 mm rain
- Trento (approximate) in JanuaryItaly · 134 kmHigh 6.5°C · Low -1.2°C · 53 mm rain
- Salzburg in JanuaryAustria · 137 kmHigh 3.1°C · Low -5.3°C · 116 mm rain
- Vaduz in JanuaryLiechtenstein · 142 kmHigh 4.5°C · Low -4.1°C · 110 mm rain
- Landshut in JanuaryGermany · 152 kmHigh 3.0°C · Low -2.8°C · 62 mm rain
- Sankt Gallen in JanuarySwitzerland · 153 kmHigh 2.8°C · Low -4.8°C · 88 mm rain
Read the numbers correctly
Climate, not a promise.
These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.
Sources, method and limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Innsbruck) is explained once on the Innsbruck year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.