Climate averages 1991–2020
Dijon weather
in January.
A cold, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Dijon: daytime highs average 6.1°C and nights cool to about 0.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 73 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 56 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Besançon (76 km away). In January its highs average 6.1°C, about as warm as Dijon, with 108 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Dijon ranks joint 52nd of 57 for the warmest January highs and joint 46th of 57 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 57 cities is 8.0°C; Dijon is 1.9°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.4°C to 7.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 73 mm to 63 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
Dijon climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 6.1°C0.4°C | 0.4°C | 73 | 12.5 | 8.99 h |
| February | 7.5°C0.4°C | 0.4°C | 63 | 11.1 | 10.210 h |
| March | 11.5°C2.9°C | 2.9°C | 66 | 11.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.1°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 75 | 12.2 | 13.614 h |
| May | 18.8°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 89 | 13.0 | 15.115 h |
| June | 22.6°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 74 | 12.3 | 15.916 h |
| July | 25.1°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 71 | 11.3 | 15.516 h |
| August | 25.2°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 70 | 10.7 | 14.314 h |
| September | 20.8°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 75 | 10.1 | 12.613 h |
| October | 16.0°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 89 | 12.3 | 10.911 h |
| November | 10.0°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 91 | 12.6 | 9.49 h |
| December | 6.6°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 84 | 13.6 | 8.69 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
- Besançon in JanuaryFrance · 76 kmHigh 6.1°C · Low 0.1°C · 108 mm rain
- Geneva in JanuarySwitzerland · 151 kmHigh 5.3°C · Low -0.9°C · 115 mm rain
- Lausanne in JanuarySwitzerland · 152 kmHigh 5.1°C · Low 0.5°C · 108 mm rain
- Villeurbanne in JanuaryFrance · 172 kmHigh 6.9°C · Low 0.6°C · 76 mm rain
- Lyon in JanuaryFrance · 174 kmHigh 7.2°C · Low 0.7°C · 69 mm rain
- Nancy in JanuaryFrance · 176 kmHigh 5.3°C · Low 0.1°C · 71 mm rain
- Mulhouse in JanuaryFrance · 180 kmHigh 5.0°C · Low -1.2°C · 75 mm rain
- Bern in JanuarySwitzerland · 189 kmHigh 3.8°C · Low -3.3°C · 80 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 Dijon) is explained once on the Dijon year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.