Climate averages 1991–2020
Sydney, Canada weather
in January.
A freezing month with heavy precipitation: the 11th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a freezing month in Sydney, Canada: daytime highs average -0.7°C and nights cool to about -6.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 118 mm of precipitation on roughly 13 days, which makes January a month with heavy precipitation (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 04 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Dartmouth (311 km away). In January its highs average -0.5°C, about as warm as Sydney, Canada, with 111 mm of precipitation.
Among the 86 cities listed in Canada, Sydney, Canada ranks joint 21st of 86 for the warmest January highs and 72nd of 86 for the driest January (precipitation, lowest first). The mean January high of those 86 cities is -2.3°C; Sydney, Canada is 1.6°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs fall by 0.5°C to -1.2°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 118 mm to 111 mm.
The annual picture
January in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Sydney, Canada climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | -0.7°C-6.9°C | -6.9°C | 118 | 12.9 | 9.19 h |
| February | -1.2°C-7.9°C | -7.9°C | 111 | 11.3 | 10.310 h |
| March | 1.3°C-5.0°C | -5.0°C | 108 | 12.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 5.9°C-0.1°C | -0.1°C | 106 | 12.3 | 13.514 h |
| May | 11.5°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 86 | 11.7 | 14.915 h |
| June | 16.8°C9.9°C | 9.9°C | 89 | 11.0 | 15.716 h |
| July | 21.5°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 85 | 10.5 | 15.415 h |
| August | 22.0°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 89 | 10.9 | 14.214 h |
| September | 18.5°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 104 | 10.5 | 12.613 h |
| October | 12.6°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 131 | 12.3 | 11.011 h |
| November | 7.4°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 124 | 12.7 | 9.510 h |
| December | 2.6°C-2.1°C | -2.1°C | 139 | 14.2 | 8.79 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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
- Dartmouth in JanuaryCanada · 311 kmHigh -0.5°C · Low -7.9°C · 111 mm precipitation
- Halifax in JanuaryCanada · 313 kmHigh -0.4°C · Low -7.1°C · 111 mm precipitation
- Moncton in JanuaryCanada · 356 kmHigh -3.5°C · Low -12.8°C · 93 mm precipitation
- Saint John in JanuaryCanada · 466 kmHigh -2.6°C · Low -10.2°C · 112 mm precipitation
- St. John's in JanuaryCanada · 590 kmHigh -0.1°C · Low -5.8°C · 124 mm precipitation
- Québec in JanuaryCanada · 847 kmHigh -7.0°C · Low -15.9°C · 83 mm precipitation
- Montréal in JanuaryCanada · 1040 kmHigh -6.4°C · Low -15.3°C · 74 mm precipitation
- Ottawa in JanuaryCanada · 1204 kmHigh -5.0°C · Low -14.2°C · 73 mm precipitation
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 Sydney) is explained once on the Sydney, Canada year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.