Climate averages 1991–2020
Odense weather
in January.
A cold, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Odense: daytime highs average 3.6°C and nights cool to about -0.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 47 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 7 h 47 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Århus (85 km away). In January its highs average 3.4°C, about as warm as Odense, with 49 mm of rain.
Among the 5 cities listed in Denmark, Odense ranks 2nd of 5 for the warmest January highs and 1st of 5 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 5 cities is 3.5°C; Odense is 0.1°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.5°C to 4.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 47 mm to 38 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
Odense climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 3.6°C-0.1°C | -0.1°C | 47 | 11.0 | 7.88 h |
| February | 4.0°C-0.2°C | -0.2°C | 38 | 9.2 | 9.610 h |
| March | 6.8°C0.8°C | 0.8°C | 41 | 10.0 | 11.812 h |
| April | 11.5°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 42 | 10.1 | 14.114 h |
| May | 15.8°C7.9°C | 7.9°C | 54 | 10.8 | 16.216 h |
| June | 18.9°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 69 | 11.6 | 17.417 h |
| July | 21.3°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 70 | 11.9 | 16.817 h |
| August | 21.0°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 70 | 12.2 | 15.015 h |
| September | 17.2°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 51 | 10.0 | 12.813 h |
| October | 12.3°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 54 | 10.9 | 10.511 h |
| November | 7.6°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 44 | 10.5 | 8.48 h |
| December | 4.5°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 48 | 10.5 | 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
- Århus in JanuaryDenmark · 85 kmHigh 3.4°C · Low -0.2°C · 49 mm rain
- Flensburg in JanuaryGermany · 91 kmHigh 3.7°C · Low -0.2°C · 64 mm rain
- Kiel in JanuaryGermany · 121 kmHigh 3.7°C · Low -0.1°C · 57 mm rain
- Esbjerg in JanuaryDenmark · 122 kmHigh 3.9°C · Low 0.9°C · 70 mm rain
- Copenhagen in JanuaryDenmark · 140 kmHigh 3.0°C · Low -0.5°C · 50 mm rain
- Neumünster in JanuaryGermany · 149 kmHigh 3.7°C · Low -0.3°C · 64 mm rain
- Helsingborg in JanuarySweden · 162 kmHigh 2.5°C · Low -1.2°C · 54 mm rain
- Malmö in JanuarySweden · 166 kmHigh 2.7°C · Low -1.0°C · 49 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 Odense) is explained once on the Odense year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.