Climate averages 1991–2020
Vantaa weather
in January.
A freezing month with moderate precipitation: the 11th warmest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a freezing month in Vantaa: daytime highs average -2.3°C and nights cool to about -6.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 48 mm of precipitation on roughly 11 days, which makes January a month with moderate precipitation (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 6 h 43 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Helsinki (15 km away). In January its highs average -2.1°C, about as warm as Vantaa, with 48 mm of precipitation.
Among the 13 cities listed in Finland, Vantaa ranks 5th of 13 for the warmest January highs and joint 10th of 13 for the driest January (precipitation, lowest first). The mean January high of those 13 cities is -3.5°C; Vantaa is 1.2°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs fall by 0.5°C to -2.8°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 48 mm to 41 mm.
The annual picture
January in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Vantaa climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | -2.3°C-6.7°C | -6.7°C | 48 | 10.9 | 6.77 h |
| February | -2.8°C-7.7°C | -7.7°C | 41 | 9.3 | 9.09 h |
| March | 1.2°C-5.1°C | -5.1°C | 37 | 8.5 | 11.712 h |
| April | 8.1°C0.0°C | 0.0°C | 37 | 8.7 | 14.615 h |
| May | 14.8°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 44 | 8.9 | 17.217 h |
| June | 19.0°C10.9°C | 10.9°C | 72 | 11.7 | 18.819 h |
| July | 21.9°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 76 | 11.9 | 18.118 h |
| August | 20.3°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 76 | 12.3 | 15.716 h |
| September | 14.9°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 57 | 10.4 | 13.013 h |
| October | 8.1°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 59 | 11.1 | 10.210 h |
| November | 3.0°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 59 | 11.5 | 7.68 h |
| December | -0.2°C-4.1°C | -4.1°C | 55 | 12.2 | 6.06 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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
- Helsinki in JanuaryFinland · 15 kmHigh -2.1°C · Low -6.0°C · 48 mm precipitation
- Espoo in JanuaryFinland · 24 kmHigh -1.9°C · Low -5.8°C · 50 mm precipitation
- Lahti in JanuaryFinland · 84 kmHigh -3.6°C · Low -8.0°C · 41 mm precipitation
- Tallinn in JanuaryEstonia · 97 kmHigh -1.5°C · Low -5.4°C · 43 mm precipitation
- Kouvola in JanuaryFinland · 111 kmHigh -3.8°C · Low -8.3°C · 44 mm precipitation
- Tampere in JanuaryFinland · 150 kmHigh -3.6°C · Low -7.4°C · 39 mm precipitation
- Turku in JanuaryFinland · 153 kmHigh -1.5°C · Low -6.0°C · 49 mm precipitation
- Lappeenranta in JanuaryFinland · 191 kmHigh -4.5°C · Low -8.4°C · 42 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 Vantaa) is explained once on the Vantaa year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Helsinki lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.