Climate averages 1991–2020
Kortrijk weather
in January.
A cold, moderately wet month: 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 Kortrijk: daytime highs average 6.5°C and nights cool to about 1.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 64 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 30 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Roubaix (16 km away). In January its highs average 6.5°C, about as warm as Kortrijk, with 64 mm of rain.
Among the 18 cities listed in Belgium, Kortrijk ranks joint 1st of 18 for the warmest January highs and joint 10th of 18 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 18 cities is 6.0°C; Kortrijk is 0.4°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.0°C to 7.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 64 mm to 54 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
Kortrijk climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 6.5°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 64 | 12.1 | 8.58 h |
| February | 7.4°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 54 | 11.2 | 10.010 h |
| March | 10.6°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 53 | 11.4 | 11.812 h |
| April | 14.2°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 47 | 11.1 | 13.814 h |
| May | 17.5°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 62 | 11.8 | 15.515 h |
| June | 20.2°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 61 | 10.7 | 16.416 h |
| July | 22.2°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 65 | 11.2 | 16.016 h |
| August | 22.1°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 72 | 11.3 | 14.615 h |
| September | 19.0°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 54 | 10.2 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.9°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 62 | 11.2 | 10.811 h |
| November | 10.1°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 65 | 12.5 | 9.09 h |
| December | 6.9°C2.6°C | 2.6°C | 74 | 12.9 | 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
- Roubaix in JanuaryFrance · 16 kmHigh 6.5°C · Low 1.6°C · 64 mm rain
- Lille in JanuaryFrance · 26 kmHigh 6.6°C · Low 1.7°C · 60 mm rain
- Gent in JanuaryBelgium · 40 kmHigh 6.3°C · Low 1.7°C · 62 mm rain
- Brugge in JanuaryBelgium · 42 kmHigh 6.5°C · Low 2.6°C · 60 mm rain
- Aalst in JanuaryBelgium · 55 kmHigh 6.3°C · Low 1.7°C · 62 mm rain
- Mons in JanuaryBelgium · 64 kmHigh 6.1°C · Low 1.4°C · 67 mm rain
- Dunkirk in JanuaryFrance · 66 kmHigh 6.9°C · Low 2.6°C · 56 mm rain
- Anderlecht in JanuaryBelgium · 74 kmHigh 6.2°C · Low 1.5°C · 63 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 Kortrijk) is explained once on the Kortrijk year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Roubaix lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.