Climate averages 1991–2020
Saint-Étienne 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 Saint-Étienne: daytime highs average 6.3°C and nights cool to about 0.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 63 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 09 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Lyon (50 km away). In January its highs average 7.2°C, 0.9°C warmer than Saint-Étienne, with 69 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Saint-Étienne ranks joint 50th of 57 for the warmest January highs and joint 27th of 57 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 57 cities is 8.0°C; Saint-Étienne is 1.6°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.1°C to 7.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 63 mm to 49 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
Saint-Étienne climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 6.3°C0.0°C | 0.0°C | 63 | 12.2 | 9.19 h |
| February | 7.4°C-0.2°C | -0.2°C | 49 | 10.0 | 10.410 h |
| March | 11.1°C2.2°C | 2.2°C | 55 | 11.3 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.3°C4.8°C | 4.8°C | 86 | 12.5 | 13.513 h |
| May | 18.1°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 98 | 13.5 | 14.915 h |
| June | 22.2°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 89 | 12.4 | 15.616 h |
| July | 24.6°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 83 | 10.4 | 15.315 h |
| August | 24.7°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 77 | 9.7 | 14.114 h |
| September | 20.2°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 90 | 9.5 | 12.613 h |
| October | 15.8°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 95 | 11.5 | 11.011 h |
| November | 10.1°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 94 | 12.3 | 9.610 h |
| December | 7.0°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 64 | 11.4 | 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
- Lyon in JanuaryFrance · 50 kmHigh 7.2°C · Low 0.7°C · 69 mm rain
- Villeurbanne in JanuaryFrance · 53 kmHigh 6.9°C · Low 0.6°C · 76 mm rain
- Grenoble in JanuaryFrance · 107 kmHigh 7.2°C · Low -0.3°C · 119 mm rain
- Clermont-Ferrand in JanuaryFrance · 108 kmHigh 6.7°C · Low 0.3°C · 62 mm rain
- Geneva in JanuarySwitzerland · 161 kmHigh 5.3°C · Low -0.9°C · 115 mm rain
- Avignon in JanuaryFrance · 168 kmHigh 10.3°C · Low 2.5°C · 59 mm rain
- Nîmes in JanuaryFrance · 178 kmHigh 10.4°C · Low 3.0°C · 63 mm rain
- Montpellier in JanuaryFrance · 207 kmHigh 10.5°C · Low 4.3°C · 71 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 Saint-Étienne) is explained once on the Saint-Étienne year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.