Climate averages 1991–2020
Esbjerg weather
in January.
A cold, moderately wet month: one of the coolest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Esbjerg: daytime highs average 3.9°C and nights cool to about 0.9°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the coolest months of the year.
Expect about 70 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 7 h 46 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Flensburg (98 km away). In January its highs average 3.7°C, about as warm as Esbjerg, with 64 mm of rain.
Among the 5 cities listed in Denmark, Esbjerg ranks 1st of 5 for the warmest January highs and 5th of 5 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 5 cities is 3.5°C; Esbjerg is 0.4°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs fall by 0.1°C to 3.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 70 mm to 57 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
Esbjerg climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 3.9°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 70 | 13.5 | 7.88 h |
| February | 3.9°C0.6°C | 0.6°C | 57 | 11.1 | 9.610 h |
| March | 6.0°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 53 | 11.2 | 11.812 h |
| April | 10.3°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 42 | 9.7 | 14.114 h |
| May | 14.2°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 49 | 10.3 | 16.216 h |
| June | 16.8°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 66 | 10.9 | 17.417 h |
| July | 19.2°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 71 | 11.7 | 16.917 h |
| August | 19.4°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 88 | 14.4 | 15.015 h |
| September | 16.3°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 85 | 13.3 | 12.813 h |
| October | 12.1°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 91 | 14.5 | 10.511 h |
| November | 7.9°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 79 | 14.3 | 8.48 h |
| December | 5.1°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 75 | 13.8 | 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
- Flensburg in JanuaryGermany · 98 kmHigh 3.7°C · Low -0.2°C · 64 mm rain
- Odense in JanuaryDenmark · 122 kmHigh 3.6°C · Low -0.1°C · 47 mm rain
- Århus in JanuaryDenmark · 134 kmHigh 3.4°C · Low -0.2°C · 49 mm rain
- Kiel in JanuaryGermany · 167 kmHigh 3.7°C · Low -0.1°C · 57 mm rain
- Neumünster in JanuaryGermany · 184 kmHigh 3.7°C · Low -0.3°C · 64 mm rain
- Aalborg in JanuaryDenmark · 197 kmHigh 3.4°C · Low -0.2°C · 57 mm rain
- Bremerhaven in JanuaryGermany · 213 kmHigh 4.2°C · Low 0.8°C · 67 mm rain
- Wilhelmshaven in JanuaryGermany · 215 kmHigh 4.5°C · Low 0.5°C · 64 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 Esbjerg) is explained once on the Esbjerg year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.