Climate averages 1991–2020
Strasbourg weather
in January.
A cold, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Strasbourg: daytime highs average 5.4°C and nights cool to about -0.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 72 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 47 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Freiburg (66 km away). In January its highs average 5.3°C, about as warm as Strasbourg, with 91 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Strasbourg ranks 54th of 57 for the warmest January highs and 45th of 57 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 57 cities is 8.0°C; Strasbourg is 2.6°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.5°C to 6.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 72 mm to 64 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
Strasbourg climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 5.4°C-0.5°C | -0.5°C | 72 | 13.2 | 8.89 h |
| February | 6.9°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 64 | 11.3 | 10.110 h |
| March | 10.9°C2.1°C | 2.1°C | 70 | 12.4 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.2°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 60 | 11.5 | 13.614 h |
| May | 19.0°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 83 | 13.8 | 15.215 h |
| June | 22.5°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 79 | 12.5 | 16.116 h |
| July | 24.5°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 83 | 13.0 | 15.716 h |
| August | 24.5°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 76 | 12.0 | 14.414 h |
| September | 20.1°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 70 | 10.3 | 12.613 h |
| October | 15.2°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 77 | 11.9 | 10.911 h |
| November | 9.4°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 76 | 11.9 | 9.39 h |
| December | 5.9°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 87 | 14.6 | 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
- Freiburg in JanuaryGermany · 66 kmHigh 5.3°C · Low -1.2°C · 91 mm rain
- Karlsruhe in JanuaryGermany · 68 kmHigh 5.2°C · Low -0.3°C · 68 mm rain
- Pforzheim in JanuaryGermany · 77 kmHigh 5.0°C · Low -0.8°C · 68 mm rain
- Villingen-Schwenningen in JanuaryGermany · 80 kmHigh 2.3°C · Low -4.1°C · 87 mm rain
- Saarbrücken in JanuaryGermany · 90 kmHigh 4.9°C · Low 0.0°C · 79 mm rain
- Kaiserslautern in JanuaryGermany · 96 kmHigh 4.5°C · Low -0.2°C · 57 mm rain
- Tübingen in JanuaryGermany · 96 kmHigh 4.5°C · Low -2.0°C · 70 mm rain
- Mulhouse in JanuaryFrance · 98 kmHigh 5.0°C · Low -1.2°C · 75 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 Strasbourg) is explained once on the Strasbourg year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.