Climate averages 1991–2020
Montpellier weather
in January.
A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Montpellier: daytime highs average 10.5°C and nights cool to about 4.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 71 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 20 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Nîmes (46 km away). In January its highs average 10.4°C, about as warm as Montpellier, with 63 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Montpellier ranks 7th of 57 for the warmest January highs and joint 41st of 57 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 57 cities is 8.0°C; Montpellier is 2.5°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.0°C to 11.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 71 mm to 42 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
Montpellier climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 10.5°C4.3°C | 4.3°C | 71 | 8.2 | 9.39 h |
| February | 11.5°C4.1°C | 4.1°C | 42 | 5.8 | 10.510 h |
| March | 14.6°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 46 | 6.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.1°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 60 | 7.2 | 13.413 h |
| May | 20.9°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 48 | 6.2 | 14.715 h |
| June | 25.4°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 25 | 3.8 | 15.415 h |
| July | 28.3°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 14 | 2.2 | 15.115 h |
| August | 28.1°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 26 | 4.0 | 14.014 h |
| September | 23.7°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 96 | 6.3 | 12.613 h |
| October | 19.0°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 114 | 10.8 | 11.111 h |
| November | 14.2°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 108 | 10.5 | 9.710 h |
| December | 11.1°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 63 | 9.1 | 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
- Nîmes in JanuaryFrance · 46 kmHigh 10.4°C · Low 3.0°C · 63 mm rain
- Béziers in JanuaryFrance · 61 kmHigh 10.2°C · Low 4.3°C · 73 mm rain
- Avignon in JanuaryFrance · 84 kmHigh 10.3°C · Low 2.5°C · 59 mm rain
- Marseille 15 in JanuaryFrance · 122 kmHigh 10.4°C · Low 2.8°C · 59 mm rain
- Marseille in JanuaryFrance · 126 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 5.4°C · 63 mm rain
- Aix-en-Provence in JanuaryFrance · 127 kmHigh 10.1°C · Low 1.7°C · 54 mm rain
- Perpignan in JanuaryFrance · 129 kmHigh 11.1°C · Low 3.7°C · 58 mm rain
- Toulon in JanuaryFrance · 174 kmHigh 11.4°C · Low 6.2°C · 62 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 Montpellier) is explained once on the Montpellier year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.