Climate averages 1991–2020
Limoges 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 Limoges: daytime highs average 7.1°C and nights cool to about 1.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 93 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 06 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Poitiers (109 km away). In January its highs average 8.0°C, 0.9°C warmer than Limoges, with 64 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Limoges ranks joint 31st of 57 for the warmest January highs and 53rd of 57 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 57 cities is 8.0°C; Limoges is 0.9°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.1°C to 8.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 93 mm to 74 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
Limoges climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 7.1°C1.9°C | 1.9°C | 93 | 13.4 | 9.19 h |
| February | 8.2°C1.5°C | 1.5°C | 74 | 10.9 | 10.310 h |
| March | 11.8°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 80 | 12.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.5°C6.0°C | 6.0°C | 96 | 13.5 | 13.514 h |
| May | 18.1°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 97 | 14.0 | 14.915 h |
| June | 21.7°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 83 | 11.2 | 15.716 h |
| July | 23.9°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 65 | 10.2 | 15.315 h |
| August | 24.2°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 73 | 9.7 | 14.114 h |
| September | 20.5°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 78 | 9.6 | 12.613 h |
| October | 16.1°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 95 | 12.8 | 11.011 h |
| November | 10.6°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 103 | 13.7 | 9.510 h |
| December | 7.7°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 101 | 13.5 | 8.79 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
- Poitiers in JanuaryFrance · 109 kmHigh 8.0°C · Low 2.7°C · 64 mm rain
- Clermont-Ferrand in JanuaryFrance · 143 kmHigh 6.7°C · Low 0.3°C · 62 mm rain
- Tours in JanuaryFrance · 178 kmHigh 7.9°C · Low 2.8°C · 62 mm rain
- Bordeaux in JanuaryFrance · 181 kmHigh 10.1°C · Low 3.5°C · 71 mm rain
- La Rochelle in JanuaryFrance · 189 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low 4.5°C · 77 mm rain
- Angers in JanuaryFrance · 228 kmHigh 8.3°C · Low 3.1°C · 62 mm rain
- Orléans, France in JanuaryFrance · 235 kmHigh 7.1°C · Low 2.0°C · 57 mm rain
- Saint-Étienne in JanuaryFrance · 248 kmHigh 6.3°C · Low 0.0°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 Limoges) is explained once on the Limoges year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.