Climate averages 1991–2020
Bielefeld weather
in January.
A cold, moderately wet month: the coolest and one of the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Bielefeld: daytime highs average 4.2°C and nights cool to about -0.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 77 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (one of the wettest months of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 19 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Gütersloh (18 km away). In January its highs average 4.5°C, about as warm as Bielefeld, with 77 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Bielefeld ranks joint 64th of 120 for the warmest January highs and joint 85th of 120 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 120 cities is 4.2°C; Bielefeld is level with that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.2°C to 5.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 77 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
Bielefeld climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 4.2°C-0.2°C | -0.2°C | 77 | 14.0 | 8.38 h |
| February | 5.4°C-0.2°C | -0.2°C | 59 | 12.1 | 9.910 h |
| March | 9.0°C1.7°C | 1.7°C | 64 | 12.8 | 11.812 h |
| April | 13.6°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 52 | 11.2 | 13.914 h |
| May | 17.6°C8.7°C | 8.7°C | 61 | 11.5 | 15.716 h |
| June | 20.5°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 66 | 12.0 | 16.617 h |
| July | 22.6°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 76 | 13.2 | 16.216 h |
| August | 22.4°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 75 | 12.6 | 14.715 h |
| September | 18.5°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 65 | 10.7 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.5°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 70 | 12.9 | 10.711 h |
| November | 8.3°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 67 | 13.3 | 8.99 h |
| December | 4.9°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 77 | 14.1 | 7.88 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
- Gütersloh in JanuaryGermany · 18 kmHigh 4.5°C · Low -0.1°C · 77 mm rain
- Detmold in JanuaryGermany · 26 kmHigh 4.1°C · Low -0.2°C · 77 mm rain
- Paderborn in JanuaryGermany · 38 kmHigh 4.2°C · Low -0.2°C · 81 mm rain
- Minden in JanuaryGermany · 39 kmHigh 4.2°C · Low 0.0°C · 67 mm rain
- Osnabrück in JanuaryGermany · 42 kmHigh 4.5°C · Low 0.2°C · 73 mm rain
- Münster in JanuaryGermany · 63 kmHigh 4.7°C · Low 0.3°C · 69 mm rain
- Hamm in JanuaryGermany · 63 kmHigh 4.7°C · Low 0.2°C · 70 mm rain
- Arnsberg in JanuaryGermany · 79 kmHigh 3.4°C · Low -1.1°C · 79 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 Bielefeld) is explained once on the Bielefeld year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Gütersloh lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.