Climate averages 1991–2020
Nicosia weather
in January.
A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Nicosia: daytime highs average 14.7°C and nights cool to about 7.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 57 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 05 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Larnaca (37 km away). In January its highs average 15.3°C, 0.6°C warmer than Nicosia, with 40 mm of rain.
Among the 3 cities listed in Cyprus, Nicosia ranks 3rd of 3 for the warmest January highs and 3rd of 3 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 3 cities is 15.1°C; Nicosia is 0.4°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.8°C to 15.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 57 mm to 48 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
Nicosia climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 14.7°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 57 | 8.7 | 10.110 h |
| February | 15.5°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 48 | 7.7 | 10.911 h |
| March | 18.7°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 36 | 6.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 23.1°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 29 | 5.1 | 13.113 h |
| May | 28.1°C16.6°C | 16.6°C | 30 | 4.5 | 14.014 h |
| June | 32.8°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 7.3 | 1.8 | 14.514 h |
| July | 35.8°C24.0°C | 24.0°C | 2.4 | 0.5 | 14.314 h |
| August | 35.6°C24.2°C | 24.2°C | 2.7 | 1.0 | 13.513 h |
| September | 32.2°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 11 | 2.6 | 12.412 h |
| October | 27.1°C17.6°C | 17.6°C | 37 | 5.5 | 11.311 h |
| November | 21.0°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 38 | 5.5 | 10.410 h |
| December | 16.5°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 54 | 8.5 | 9.810 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
- Larnaca in JanuaryCyprus · 37 kmHigh 15.3°C · Low 9.8°C · 40 mm rain
- Limassol in JanuaryCyprus · 62 kmHigh 15.3°C · Low 9.7°C · 53 mm rain
- Silifke in JanuaryTurkey · 144 kmHigh 13.7°C · Low 7.1°C · 97 mm rain
- Alanya in JanuaryTurkey · 195 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 5.4°C · 179 mm rain
- Mersin in JanuaryTurkey · 216 kmHigh 12.2°C · Low 4.8°C · 99 mm rain
- Karaman in JanuaryTurkey · 224 kmHigh 5.4°C · Low -2.9°C · 45 mm rain
- Latakia in JanuarySyria · 225 kmHigh 14.3°C · Low 9.0°C · 226 mm rain
- Ţarţūs in JanuarySyria · 233 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 8.5°C · 135 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 Nicosia) is explained once on the Nicosia year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.