Climate averages 1991–2020
Copenhagen weather
in January.
A cold, moderately wet month: the coolest and the joint 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Copenhagen: daytime highs average 3.0°C and nights cool to about -0.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 50 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the joint 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 7 h 44 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Malmö (28 km away). In January its highs average 2.7°C, about as warm as Copenhagen, with 49 mm of rain.
Among the 5 cities listed in Denmark, Copenhagen ranks 5th of 5 for the warmest January highs and 3rd of 5 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 5 cities is 3.5°C; Copenhagen is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.3°C to 3.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 50 mm to 41 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
Copenhagen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 3.0°C-0.5°C | -0.5°C | 50 | 11.7 | 7.78 h |
| February | 3.3°C-0.7°C | -0.7°C | 41 | 9.5 | 9.610 h |
| March | 6.0°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 43 | 10.0 | 11.812 h |
| April | 10.8°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 41 | 9.3 | 14.114 h |
| May | 15.4°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 52 | 10.3 | 16.216 h |
| June | 18.6°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 71 | 11.2 | 17.417 h |
| July | 20.9°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 72 | 12.0 | 16.917 h |
| August | 20.6°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 77 | 12.8 | 15.115 h |
| September | 16.7°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 59 | 10.2 | 12.813 h |
| October | 11.7°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 60 | 11.7 | 10.511 h |
| November | 7.2°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 50 | 11.0 | 8.48 h |
| December | 4.1°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 53 | 11.5 | 7.27 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
- Malmö in JanuarySweden · 28 kmHigh 2.7°C · Low -1.0°C · 49 mm rain
- Lund in JanuarySweden · 39 kmHigh 2.3°C · Low -1.7°C · 53 mm rain
- Helsingborg in JanuarySweden · 42 kmHigh 2.5°C · Low -1.2°C · 54 mm rain
- Halmstad in JanuarySweden · 112 kmHigh 2.1°C · Low -1.7°C · 68 mm rain
- Odense in JanuaryDenmark · 140 kmHigh 3.6°C · Low -0.1°C · 47 mm rain
- Århus in JanuaryDenmark · 156 kmHigh 3.4°C · Low -0.2°C · 49 mm rain
- Rostock in JanuaryGermany · 179 kmHigh 3.2°C · Low -0.6°C · 50 mm rain
- Växjö in JanuarySweden · 192 kmHigh 0.5°C · Low -3.3°C · 51 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 Copenhagen) is explained once on the Copenhagen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.