Climate averages 1991–2020
Baku weather
in January.
A cold, fairly dry month: one of the coolest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Baku: daytime highs average 7.6°C and nights cool to about 4.4°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the coolest months of the year.
Expect about 22 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 39 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Qaraçuxur (7 km away). In January its highs average 7.1°C, 0.6°C cooler than Baku, with 22 mm of rain.
Among the 11 cities listed in Azerbaijan, Baku ranks joint 4th of 11 for the warmest January highs and joint 4th of 11 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 11 cities is 7.0°C; Baku is 0.6°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs stay level at 7.6°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 22 mm to 24 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
Baku climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 7.6°C4.4°C | 4.4°C | 22 | 5.7 | 9.610 h |
| February | 7.6°C4.1°C | 4.1°C | 24 | 5.4 | 10.611 h |
| March | 10.0°C6.0°C | 6.0°C | 21 | 4.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.3°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 20 | 4.9 | 13.313 h |
| May | 20.4°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 13 | 3.2 | 14.414 h |
| June | 25.7°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 5.6 | 1.4 | 15.015 h |
| July | 28.7°C23.9°C | 23.9°C | 6.7 | 1.2 | 14.715 h |
| August | 29.1°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 5.7 | 1.0 | 13.814 h |
| September | 24.9°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 19 | 3.6 | 12.513 h |
| October | 19.7°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 29 | 6.0 | 11.211 h |
| November | 13.6°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 36 | 7.4 | 10.010 h |
| December | 9.6°C6.5°C | 6.5°C | 27 | 6.0 | 9.49 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
- Qaraçuxur in JanuaryAzerbaijan · 7 kmHigh 7.1°C · Low 4.3°C · 22 mm rain
- Khirdalan in JanuaryAzerbaijan · 14 kmHigh 7.2°C · Low 3.6°C · 24 mm rain
- Sumgayit in JanuaryAzerbaijan · 30 kmHigh 7.2°C · Low 4.1°C · 24 mm rain
- Şirvan in JanuaryAzerbaijan · 95 kmHigh 8.6°C · Low 1.2°C · 20 mm rain
- Pārsābād in JanuaryIran · 187 kmHigh 8.7°C · Low 0.1°C · 22 mm rain
- Lankaran in JanuaryAzerbaijan · 201 kmHigh 8.5°C · Low 6.3°C · 117 mm rain
- Lerik in JanuaryAzerbaijan · 219 kmHigh 4.5°C · Low -4.5°C · 71 mm rain
- Derbent in JanuaryRussia · 231 kmHigh 5.4°C · Low 1.5°C · 27 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 Baku) is explained once on the Baku year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Qaraçuxur lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.