Climate averages 1991–2020
Salzburg weather
in January.
A cold, wet month: the coolest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Salzburg: daytime highs average 3.1°C and nights cool to about -5.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 116 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes January a wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 53 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Landshut (104 km away). In January its highs average 3.0°C, about as warm as Salzburg, with 62 mm of rain.
Among the 6 cities listed in Austria, Salzburg ranks joint 4th of 6 for the warmest January highs and 6th of 6 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 6 cities is 3.3°C; Salzburg is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.9°C to 5.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 116 mm to 106 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
Salzburg climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 3.1°C-5.3°C | -5.3°C | 116 | 13.9 | 8.99 h |
| February | 5.1°C-4.3°C | -4.3°C | 106 | 13.5 | 10.210 h |
| March | 9.1°C-0.7°C | -0.7°C | 140 | 17.1 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.4°C2.9°C | 2.9°C | 121 | 15.7 | 13.614 h |
| May | 18.8°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 196 | 19.8 | 15.115 h |
| June | 21.8°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 215 | 20.0 | 15.916 h |
| July | 23.6°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 217 | 20.6 | 15.616 h |
| August | 23.4°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 193 | 18.3 | 14.314 h |
| September | 19.0°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 165 | 15.7 | 12.613 h |
| October | 14.8°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 120 | 13.9 | 10.911 h |
| November | 8.6°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 109 | 13.1 | 9.39 h |
| December | 3.8°C-3.9°C | -3.9°C | 121 | 15.0 | 8.58 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
- Landshut in JanuaryGermany · 104 kmHigh 3.0°C · Low -2.8°C · 62 mm rain
- Linz in JanuaryAustria · 108 kmHigh 3.3°C · Low -3.1°C · 59 mm rain
- Munich in JanuaryGermany · 116 kmHigh 3.4°C · Low -3.5°C · 62 mm rain
- Innsbruck (approximate) in JanuaryAustria · 137 kmHigh 3.9°C · Low -6.1°C · 83 mm rain
- Regensburg in JanuaryGermany · 152 kmHigh 3.2°C · Low -3.0°C · 55 mm rain
- Ingolstadt in JanuaryGermany · 161 kmHigh 3.5°C · Low -2.5°C · 54 mm rain
- Klagenfurt am Wörthersee in JanuaryAustria · 162 kmHigh 3.1°C · Low -4.0°C · 48 mm rain
- České Budějovice in JanuaryCzechia · 168 kmHigh 2.5°C · Low -3.7°C · 40 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 Salzburg) is explained once on the Salzburg year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.