Climate averages 1991–2020
Liège 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 Liège: daytime highs average 5.6°C and nights cool to about 1.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 70 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 31 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Maastricht (25 km away). In January its highs average 5.6°C, about as warm as Liège, with 76 mm of rain.
Among the 18 cities listed in Belgium, Liège ranks joint 16th of 18 for the warmest January highs and 18th of 18 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 18 cities is 6.0°C; Liège is 0.4°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.1°C to 6.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 70 mm to 64 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
Liège climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 5.6°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 70 | 13.0 | 8.59 h |
| February | 6.7°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 64 | 12.1 | 10.010 h |
| March | 10.3°C2.9°C | 2.9°C | 64 | 13.2 | 11.812 h |
| April | 14.2°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 52 | 11.2 | 13.814 h |
| May | 17.8°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 63 | 12.7 | 15.515 h |
| June | 20.7°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 74 | 12.7 | 16.416 h |
| July | 22.7°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 78 | 12.9 | 16.016 h |
| August | 22.6°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 79 | 12.3 | 14.515 h |
| September | 19.0°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 62 | 10.8 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.6°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 63 | 11.8 | 10.811 h |
| November | 9.6°C4.9°C | 4.9°C | 67 | 12.6 | 9.09 h |
| December | 6.3°C2.1°C | 2.1°C | 82 | 14.0 | 8.18 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
- Maastricht in JanuaryThe Netherlands · 25 kmHigh 5.6°C · Low 0.9°C · 76 mm rain
- Hasselt in JanuaryBelgium · 37 kmHigh 5.8°C · Low 1.1°C · 66 mm rain
- Aachen in JanuaryGermany · 40 kmHigh 4.9°C · Low 0.4°C · 74 mm rain
- Heerlen in JanuaryThe Netherlands · 40 kmHigh 5.3°C · Low 0.6°C · 63 mm rain
- Namur in JanuaryBelgium · 53 kmHigh 5.8°C · Low 1.1°C · 66 mm rain
- Leuven in JanuaryBelgium · 67 kmHigh 6.0°C · Low 1.3°C · 62 mm rain
- Düren in JanuaryGermany · 68 kmHigh 5.0°C · Low 0.4°C · 62 mm rain
- Charleroi in JanuaryBelgium · 83 kmHigh 5.6°C · Low 1.0°C · 66 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 Liège) is explained once on the Liège year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.