Climate averages 1991–2020
Lyon weather
in January.
A cold, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Lyon: daytime highs average 7.2°C and nights cool to about 0.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 69 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 07 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Villeurbanne (3 km away). In January its highs average 6.9°C, about as warm as Lyon, with 76 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Lyon ranks joint 28th of 57 for the warmest January highs and 40th of 57 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 57 cities is 8.0°C; Lyon is 0.8°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.6°C to 8.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 69 mm to 56 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
Lyon 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°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 69 | 12.6 | 9.19 h |
| February | 8.8°C0.8°C | 0.8°C | 56 | 10.2 | 10.310 h |
| March | 12.9°C3.4°C | 3.4°C | 60 | 10.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 16.3°C6.3°C | 6.3°C | 81 | 11.8 | 13.513 h |
| May | 20.2°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 90 | 12.5 | 14.915 h |
| June | 24.3°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 81 | 11.7 | 15.616 h |
| July | 26.7°C16.6°C | 16.6°C | 78 | 10.0 | 15.315 h |
| August | 26.7°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 77 | 9.5 | 14.114 h |
| September | 22.1°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 93 | 9.6 | 12.613 h |
| October | 17.2°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 99 | 11.6 | 11.011 h |
| November | 11.2°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 100 | 12.4 | 9.510 h |
| December | 7.7°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 74 | 12.3 | 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 · 3 kmHigh 6.9°C · Low 0.6°C · 76 mm rain
- Saint-Étienne in JanuaryFrance · 50 kmHigh 6.3°C · Low 0.0°C · 63 mm rain
- Grenoble in JanuaryFrance · 93 kmHigh 7.2°C · Low -0.3°C · 119 mm rain
- Geneva in JanuarySwitzerland · 112 kmHigh 5.3°C · Low -0.9°C · 115 mm rain
- Clermont-Ferrand in JanuaryFrance · 137 kmHigh 6.7°C · Low 0.3°C · 62 mm rain
- Lausanne in JanuarySwitzerland · 162 kmHigh 5.1°C · Low 0.5°C · 108 mm rain
- Dijon in JanuaryFrance · 174 kmHigh 6.1°C · Low 0.4°C · 73 mm rain
- Besançon in JanuaryFrance · 189 kmHigh 6.1°C · Low 0.1°C · 108 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 Lyon) is explained once on the Lyon year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.