Climate averages 1991–2020

Lerik weather
in January.

A cold, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 4th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 4.5°C Daytime mean, January

Average low -4.5°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 71 mm 10 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cold month in Lerik: daytime highs average 4.5°C and nights cool to about -4.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 71 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 47 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Lankaran (38 km away). In January its highs average 8.5°C, 4.0°C warmer than Lerik, with 117 mm of rain.

Among the 11 cities listed in Azerbaijan, Lerik ranks 10th of 11 for the warmest January highs and 10th of 11 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 11 cities is 7.0°C; Lerik is 2.5°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.5°C to 5.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 71 mm to 86 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Lerik climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Lerik, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	4.5°C-4.5°C	-4.5°C	71	10.3	9.810 h
February	5.0°C-3.8°C	-3.8°C	86	11.7	10.711 h
March	8.9°C0.0°C	0.0°C	94	13.7	11.912 h
April	14.0°C5.0°C	5.0°C	103	17.7	13.213 h
May	18.8°C10.1°C	10.1°C	100	17.7	14.314 h
June	22.8°C14.3°C	14.3°C	52	8.9	14.815 h
July	25.7°C17.1°C	17.1°C	31	5.5	14.615 h
August	25.9°C17.0°C	17.0°C	44	6.6	13.714 h
September	21.5°C13.7°C	13.7°C	117	12.7	12.512 h
October	16.7°C9.1°C	9.1°C	156	16.2	11.211 h
November	10.7°C2.9°C	2.9°C	119	13.5	10.110 h
December	6.6°C-2.3°C	-2.3°C	74	10.0	9.510 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

Distance from Lerik

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Lerik) is explained once on the Lerik year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.