Climate averages 1991–2020
Villeurbanne 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 Villeurbanne: daytime highs average 6.9°C and nights cool to about 0.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 76 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 07 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Lyon (3 km away). In January its highs average 7.2°C, about as warm as Villeurbanne, with 69 mm of rain.
Among the 57 cities listed in France, Villeurbanne ranks joint 40th of 57 for the warmest January highs and 49th of 57 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 57 cities is 8.0°C; Villeurbanne is 1.1°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.6°C to 8.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 76 mm to 63 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
Villeurbanne climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 6.9°C0.6°C | 0.6°C | 76 | 12.4 | 9.19 h |
| February | 8.5°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 63 | 10.3 | 10.310 h |
| March | 12.6°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 65 | 10.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 16.1°C6.3°C | 6.3°C | 81 | 11.2 | 13.513 h |
| May | 19.9°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 88 | 12.1 | 14.915 h |
| June | 24.0°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 80 | 11.3 | 15.616 h |
| July | 26.4°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 75 | 9.5 | 15.315 h |
| August | 26.4°C16.5°C | 16.5°C | 75 | 9.4 | 14.114 h |
| September | 21.8°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 93 | 9.6 | 12.613 h |
| October | 17.0°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 100 | 11.5 | 11.011 h |
| November | 10.9°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 106 | 12.4 | 9.510 h |
| December | 7.4°C1.5°C | 1.5°C | 83 | 12.3 | 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 · 3 kmHigh 7.2°C · Low 0.7°C · 69 mm rain
- Saint-Étienne in JanuaryFrance · 53 kmHigh 6.3°C · Low 0.0°C · 63 mm rain
- Grenoble in JanuaryFrance · 92 kmHigh 7.2°C · Low -0.3°C · 119 mm rain
- Geneva in JanuarySwitzerland · 109 kmHigh 5.3°C · Low -0.9°C · 115 mm rain
- Clermont-Ferrand in JanuaryFrance · 139 kmHigh 6.7°C · Low 0.3°C · 62 mm rain
- Lausanne in JanuarySwitzerland · 159 kmHigh 5.1°C · Low 0.5°C · 108 mm rain
- Dijon in JanuaryFrance · 172 kmHigh 6.1°C · Low 0.4°C · 73 mm rain
- Besançon in JanuaryFrance · 186 kmHigh 6.1°C · Low 0.1°C · 108 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 Villeurbanne) is explained once on the Villeurbanne year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.