Climate averages 1991–2020
Angers weather
in January.
A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the joint 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Angers: daytime highs average 8.3°C and nights cool to about 3.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 62 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the joint 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 55 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Nantes (81 km away). In January its highs average 8.9°C, 0.6°C warmer than Angers, with 71 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Angers ranks 20th of 57 for the warmest January highs and joint 23rd of 57 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 57 cities is 8.0°C; Angers is 0.3°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.0°C to 9.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 62 mm to 50 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
Angers climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 8.3°C3.1°C | 3.1°C | 62 | 11.2 | 8.99 h |
| February | 9.3°C2.8°C | 2.8°C | 50 | 9.5 | 10.210 h |
| March | 12.4°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 49 | 10.1 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.2°C6.6°C | 6.6°C | 54 | 10.5 | 13.614 h |
| May | 18.7°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 62 | 10.8 | 15.115 h |
| June | 22.1°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 44 | 8.5 | 15.916 h |
| July | 24.2°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 40 | 7.3 | 15.516 h |
| August | 24.5°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 46 | 7.1 | 14.314 h |
| September | 21.3°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 50 | 7.4 | 12.613 h |
| October | 16.8°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 68 | 10.7 | 10.911 h |
| November | 11.8°C6.2°C | 6.2°C | 62 | 11.4 | 9.49 h |
| December | 8.7°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 70 | 11.4 | 8.59 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
- Nantes in JanuaryFrance · 81 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low 3.8°C · 71 mm rain
- Le Mans in JanuaryFrance · 82 kmHigh 7.6°C · Low 2.5°C · 63 mm rain
- Tours in JanuaryFrance · 95 kmHigh 7.9°C · Low 2.8°C · 62 mm rain
- Rennes in JanuaryFrance · 110 kmHigh 8.4°C · Low 3.3°C · 64 mm rain
- Poitiers in JanuaryFrance · 120 kmHigh 8.0°C · Low 2.7°C · 64 mm rain
- La Rochelle in JanuaryFrance · 152 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low 4.5°C · 77 mm rain
- Orléans, France in JanuaryFrance · 190 kmHigh 7.1°C · Low 2.0°C · 57 mm rain
- Caen in JanuaryFrance · 191 kmHigh 8.1°C · Low 3.3°C · 59 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 Angers) is explained once on the Angers year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.