Climate averages 1991–2020
Nancy weather
in January.
A cold, moderately wet month: the coolest and the joint 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Nancy: daytime highs average 5.3°C and nights cool to about 0.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 71 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the joint 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 46 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Metz (48 km away). In January its highs average 5.1°C, about as warm as Nancy, with 67 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Nancy ranks 55th 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; Nancy is 2.7°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.4°C to 6.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 71 mm to 61 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
Nancy climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 5.3°C0.1°C | 0.1°C | 71 | 12.8 | 8.89 h |
| February | 6.7°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 61 | 11.3 | 10.110 h |
| March | 10.6°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 66 | 11.9 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.5°C5.2°C | 5.2°C | 59 | 11.1 | 13.714 h |
| May | 18.3°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 74 | 12.5 | 15.215 h |
| June | 21.8°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 67 | 11.2 | 16.116 h |
| July | 24.2°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 63 | 11.2 | 15.716 h |
| August | 24.2°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 68 | 11.5 | 14.414 h |
| September | 19.8°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 71 | 9.8 | 12.613 h |
| October | 15.0°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 72 | 11.9 | 10.911 h |
| November | 9.3°C3.9°C | 3.9°C | 77 | 12.7 | 9.29 h |
| December | 5.9°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 87 | 14.2 | 8.48 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
- Metz in JanuaryFrance · 48 kmHigh 5.1°C · Low 0.2°C · 67 mm rain
- Saarbrücken in JanuaryGermany · 86 kmHigh 4.9°C · Low 0.0°C · 79 mm rain
- Luxembourg in JanuaryLuxembourg · 103 kmHigh 4.5°C · Low -0.4°C · 68 mm rain
- Strasbourg in JanuaryFrance · 115 kmHigh 5.4°C · Low -0.5°C · 72 mm rain
- Trier in JanuaryGermany · 124 kmHigh 4.8°C · Low 0.0°C · 82 mm rain
- Mulhouse in JanuaryFrance · 134 kmHigh 5.0°C · Low -1.2°C · 75 mm rain
- Kaiserslautern in JanuaryGermany · 143 kmHigh 4.5°C · Low -0.2°C · 57 mm rain
- Freiburg in JanuaryGermany · 145 kmHigh 5.3°C · Low -1.2°C · 91 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 Nancy) is explained once on the Nancy year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.