Climate averages 1991–2020
Bordeaux weather
in January.
A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Bordeaux: daytime highs average 10.1°C and nights cool to about 3.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 71 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 13 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is La Rochelle (154 km away). In January its highs average 9.3°C, 0.8°C cooler than Bordeaux, with 77 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Bordeaux ranks joint 12th of 57 for the warmest January highs and joint 41st of 57 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 57 cities is 8.0°C; Bordeaux is 2.1°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.2°C to 11.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 71 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
Bordeaux climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 10.1°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 71 | 10.8 | 9.29 h |
| February | 11.3°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 50 | 9.2 | 10.410 h |
| March | 14.8°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 53 | 10.1 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.3°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 69 | 11.9 | 13.513 h |
| May | 21.0°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 75 | 11.5 | 14.815 h |
| June | 24.4°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 64 | 9.5 | 15.516 h |
| July | 26.6°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 48 | 7.9 | 15.215 h |
| August | 27.1°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 57 | 8.0 | 14.114 h |
| September | 23.8°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 58 | 8.6 | 12.613 h |
| October | 19.4°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 67 | 10.5 | 11.011 h |
| November | 13.7°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 79 | 11.6 | 9.610 h |
| December | 10.7°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 73 | 11.4 | 8.99 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
- La Rochelle in JanuaryFrance · 154 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low 4.5°C · 77 mm rain
- Pau in JanuaryFrance · 171 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 1.7°C · 112 mm rain
- Limoges in JanuaryFrance · 181 kmHigh 7.1°C · Low 1.9°C · 93 mm rain
- Donostia / San Sebastián in JanuarySpain · 203 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 6.5°C · 135 mm rain
- Poitiers in JanuaryFrance · 206 kmHigh 8.0°C · Low 2.7°C · 64 mm rain
- Toulouse in JanuaryFrance · 212 kmHigh 9.7°C · Low 2.9°C · 66 mm rain
- Pamplona in JanuarySpain · 241 kmHigh 8.4°C · Low 1.5°C · 68 mm rain
- Bilbao in JanuarySpain · 257 kmHigh 11.9°C · Low 7.2°C · 112 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 Bordeaux) is explained once on the Bordeaux year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.