Climate averages 1991–2020

Pau weather
in January.

A cool, wet month: the coolest and the 7th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 9.5°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 1.7°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 112 mm 14 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 9 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cool month in Pau: daytime highs average 9.5°C and nights cool to about 1.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 112 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes January a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 22 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Pamplona (118 km away). In January its highs average 8.4°C, 1.1°C cooler than Pau, with 68 mm of rain.

Among the 57 cities listed in France, Pau ranks 16th of 57 for the warmest January highs and 56th of 57 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 57 cities is 8.0°C; Pau is 1.5°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.8°C to 10.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 112 mm to 98 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Pau climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Pau, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	9.5°C1.7°C	1.7°C	112	13.8	9.49 h
February	10.3°C1.8°C	1.8°C	98	12.4	10.510 h
March	13.5°C4.1°C	4.1°C	107	13.7	11.912 h
April	15.4°C6.1°C	6.1°C	145	16.4	13.413 h
May	18.8°C9.7°C	9.7°C	159	16.3	14.715 h
June	22.1°C13.0°C	13.0°C	128	14.0	15.315 h
July	24.1°C15.1°C	15.1°C	105	12.1	15.115 h
August	24.5°C15.5°C	15.5°C	104	12.5	14.014 h
September	21.5°C12.6°C	12.6°C	98	11.9	12.513 h
October	18.1°C9.5°C	9.5°C	123	13.7	11.111 h
November	12.7°C5.1°C	5.1°C	138	14.2	9.810 h
December	10.1°C2.6°C	2.6°C	108	13.2	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

Distance from Pau

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Pau) is explained once on the Pau year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.