Climate averages 1991–2020

Gent weather
in January.

A cold, moderately wet month: the coolest and the joint 7th driest of the year.

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

Average high 6.3°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 1.7°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 62 mm 12 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 8 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cold month in Gent: daytime highs average 6.3°C and nights cool to about 1.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 62 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the joint 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 28 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Aalst (26 km away). In January its highs average 6.3°C, about as warm as Gent, with 62 mm of rain.

Among the 18 cities listed in Belgium, Gent ranks joint 3rd of 18 for the warmest January highs and joint 3rd of 18 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 18 cities is 6.0°C; Gent is 0.2°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 1.0°C to 7.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 62 mm to 54 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

Gent climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Gent, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	6.3°C1.7°C	1.7°C	62	11.9	8.58 h
February	7.2°C1.7°C	1.7°C	54	10.9	10.010 h
March	10.4°C3.4°C	3.4°C	53	11.1	11.812 h
April	14.2°C5.7°C	5.7°C	49	11.9	13.814 h
May	17.6°C9.3°C	9.3°C	61	12.0	15.516 h
June	20.3°C12.2°C	12.2°C	62	11.2	16.516 h
July	22.3°C14.4°C	14.4°C	71	12.2	16.116 h
August	22.2°C14.4°C	14.4°C	74	11.6	14.615 h
September	19.0°C12.0°C	12.0°C	56	10.5	12.713 h
October	14.8°C8.9°C	8.9°C	58	11.2	10.811 h
November	10.0°C5.3°C	5.3°C	62	11.8	9.09 h
December	6.7°C2.5°C	2.5°C	71	12.6	8.08 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 Gent

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 Gent) is explained once on the Gent year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.