Climate averages 1991–2020

Tórshavn weather
in January.

A cold, wet month: the joint 10th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 5.9°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 3.2°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 122 mm 20 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 6 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cold month in Tórshavn: daytime highs average 5.9°C and nights cool to about 3.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 10th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 122 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes January a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 6 h 14 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Aberdeen (601 km away). In January its highs average 6.3°C, about as warm as Tórshavn, with 70 mm of rain.

From January to February, average highs fall by 0.3°C to 5.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 122 mm to 97 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Tórshavn climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Tórshavn, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	5.9°C3.2°C	3.2°C	122	19.6	6.26 h
February	5.6°C2.8°C	2.8°C	97	16.9	8.89 h
March	5.9°C3.1°C	3.1°C	93	17.8	11.712 h
April	7.0°C4.2°C	4.2°C	67	13.9	14.715 h
May	8.6°C5.8°C	5.8°C	54	11.8	17.718 h
June	10.6°C7.9°C	7.9°C	46	8.9	19.520 h
July	12.2°C9.7°C	9.7°C	53	11.4	18.719 h
August	12.4°C10.0°C	10.0°C	68	11.9	16.016 h
September	11.2°C9.0°C	9.0°C	94	15.0	13.013 h
October	9.1°C6.8°C	6.8°C	117	18.2	10.010 h
November	7.3°C4.8°C	4.8°C	119	19.2	7.27 h
December	6.2°C3.5°C	3.5°C	125	19.1	5.45 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

Distance from Tórshavn

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Tórshavn) is explained once on the Tórshavn year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.