Climate averages 1991–2020
Nice weather
in January.
A cool, moderately 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 cool month in Nice: daytime highs average 11.5°C and nights cool to about 5.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 67 mm of rain on roughly 7 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 7th 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 Monaco (13 km away). In January its highs average 11.2°C, about as warm as Nice, with 69 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Nice ranks 1st of 57 for the warmest January highs and joint 38th of 57 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 57 cities is 8.0°C; Nice is 3.5°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.5°C to 12.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 67 mm to 59 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
Nice climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 11.5°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 67 | 7.2 | 9.39 h |
| February | 12.0°C4.8°C | 4.8°C | 59 | 7.5 | 10.510 h |
| March | 14.5°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 63 | 7.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 16.9°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 81 | 10.4 | 13.413 h |
| May | 20.6°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 64 | 10.5 | 14.715 h |
| June | 24.5°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 50 | 9.0 | 15.415 h |
| July | 27.3°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 27 | 6.9 | 15.115 h |
| August | 27.4°C20.8°C | 20.8°C | 31 | 6.9 | 14.014 h |
| September | 23.5°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 76 | 8.5 | 12.613 h |
| October | 19.5°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 113 | 9.0 | 11.111 h |
| November | 15.2°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 133 | 10.3 | 9.710 h |
| December | 12.3°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 82 | 8.4 | 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
- Monaco in JanuaryMonaco · 13 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 5.3°C · 69 mm rain
- Antibes in JanuaryFrance · 18 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 4.4°C · 64 mm rain
- Cannes in JanuaryFrance · 26 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low 4.1°C · 64 mm rain
- Toulon in JanuaryFrance · 126 kmHigh 11.4°C · Low 6.2°C · 62 mm rain
- Aix-en-Provence in JanuaryFrance · 148 kmHigh 10.1°C · Low 1.7°C · 54 mm rain
- Asti in JanuaryItaly · 153 kmHigh 6.8°C · Low -0.6°C · 57 mm rain
- Genoa in JanuaryItaly · 155 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 3.9°C · 95 mm rain
- Turin in JanuaryItaly · 156 kmHigh 6.0°C · Low -1.6°C · 52 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 Nice) is explained once on the Nice year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.