Climate averages 1991–2020
Grenoble weather
in January.
A cold, 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 cold month in Grenoble: daytime highs average 7.2°C and nights cool to about -0.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 119 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes January a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 11 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Villeurbanne (92 km away). In January its highs average 6.9°C, about as warm as Grenoble, with 76 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Grenoble ranks joint 28th of 57 for the warmest January highs and 57th of 57 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 57 cities is 8.0°C; Grenoble is 0.8°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.3°C to 8.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 119 mm to 102 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
Grenoble climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 7.2°C-0.3°C | -0.3°C | 119 | 13.1 | 9.29 h |
| February | 8.5°C0.1°C | 0.1°C | 102 | 11.3 | 10.410 h |
| March | 12.8°C3.1°C | 3.1°C | 109 | 12.9 | 11.912 h |
| April | 16.3°C6.2°C | 6.2°C | 120 | 14.3 | 13.513 h |
| May | 20.0°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 147 | 16.8 | 14.815 h |
| June | 23.9°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 127 | 15.3 | 15.616 h |
| July | 26.4°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 113 | 12.8 | 15.315 h |
| August | 26.3°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 107 | 12.0 | 14.114 h |
| September | 21.8°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 111 | 11.6 | 12.613 h |
| October | 17.5°C8.8°C | 8.8°C | 118 | 12.7 | 11.011 h |
| November | 11.4°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 141 | 13.5 | 9.610 h |
| December | 7.7°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 133 | 13.4 | 8.89 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
- Villeurbanne in JanuaryFrance · 92 kmHigh 6.9°C · Low 0.6°C · 76 mm rain
- Lyon in JanuaryFrance · 93 kmHigh 7.2°C · Low 0.7°C · 69 mm rain
- Saint-Étienne in JanuaryFrance · 107 kmHigh 6.3°C · Low 0.0°C · 63 mm rain
- Geneva in JanuarySwitzerland · 119 kmHigh 5.3°C · Low -0.9°C · 115 mm rain
- Avignon in JanuaryFrance · 154 kmHigh 10.3°C · Low 2.5°C · 59 mm rain
- Turin in JanuaryItaly · 155 kmHigh 6.0°C · Low -1.6°C · 52 mm rain
- Lausanne in JanuarySwitzerland · 165 kmHigh 5.1°C · Low 0.5°C · 108 mm rain
- Nîmes in JanuaryFrance · 184 kmHigh 10.4°C · Low 3.0°C · 63 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 Grenoble) is explained once on the Grenoble year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.