Climate averages 1991–2020
Cannes weather
in January.
A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Cannes: daytime highs average 11.3°C and nights cool to about 4.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 64 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 21 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Antibes (10 km away). In January its highs average 11.2°C, about as warm as Cannes, with 64 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Cannes ranks 3rd of 57 for the warmest January highs and joint 32nd of 57 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 57 cities is 8.0°C; Cannes is 3.3°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.7°C to 11.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 64 mm to 53 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
Cannes climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 11.3°C4.1°C | 4.1°C | 64 | 6.5 | 9.39 h |
| February | 11.9°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 53 | 6.8 | 10.510 h |
| March | 14.6°C5.9°C | 5.9°C | 54 | 6.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.0°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 67 | 7.8 | 13.413 h |
| May | 20.7°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 47 | 6.3 | 14.715 h |
| June | 24.6°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 32 | 4.5 | 15.415 h |
| July | 27.5°C19.7°C | 19.7°C | 13 | 2.5 | 15.115 h |
| August | 27.8°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 19 | 3.7 | 14.014 h |
| September | 23.7°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 70 | 6.1 | 12.613 h |
| October | 19.4°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 108 | 8.9 | 11.111 h |
| November | 14.9°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 129 | 9.4 | 9.710 h |
| December | 12.0°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 79 | 7.7 | 9.09 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
- Antibes in JanuaryFrance · 10 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 4.4°C · 64 mm rain
- Nice in JanuaryFrance · 26 kmHigh 11.5°C · Low 5.1°C · 67 mm rain
- Monaco in JanuaryMonaco · 39 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 5.3°C · 69 mm rain
- Toulon in JanuaryFrance · 100 kmHigh 11.4°C · Low 6.2°C · 62 mm rain
- Aix-en-Provence in JanuaryFrance · 126 kmHigh 10.1°C · Low 1.7°C · 54 mm rain
- Marseille in JanuaryFrance · 135 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 5.4°C · 63 mm rain
- Marseille 15 in JanuaryFrance · 135 kmHigh 10.4°C · Low 2.8°C · 59 mm rain
- Turin in JanuaryItaly · 177 kmHigh 6.0°C · Low -1.6°C · 52 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 Cannes) is explained once on the Cannes year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Antibes lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.