Climate averages 1991–2020
Dresden weather
in January.
A cold, moderately wet month: the coolest and the joint 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Dresden: daytime highs average 3.1°C and nights cool to about -2.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 62 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the joint 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 28 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ústí nad Labem (48 km away). In January its highs average 2.8°C, about as warm as Dresden, with 50 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Dresden ranks 112th of 120 for the warmest January highs and joint 38th of 120 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 120 cities is 4.2°C; Dresden is 1.1°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.5°C to 4.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 62 mm to 50 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
Dresden climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 3.1°C-2.0°C | -2.0°C | 62 | 13.7 | 8.58 h |
| February | 4.7°C-1.8°C | -1.8°C | 50 | 11.3 | 10.010 h |
| March | 8.6°C0.8°C | 0.8°C | 63 | 12.9 | 11.812 h |
| April | 14.0°C4.4°C | 4.4°C | 50 | 11.1 | 13.814 h |
| May | 18.4°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 75 | 12.8 | 15.516 h |
| June | 21.5°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 86 | 13.1 | 16.516 h |
| July | 23.6°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 95 | 13.1 | 16.116 h |
| August | 23.6°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 90 | 11.9 | 14.615 h |
| September | 18.9°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 69 | 11.3 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.6°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 58 | 11.5 | 10.811 h |
| November | 7.8°C2.8°C | 2.8°C | 59 | 11.3 | 9.09 h |
| December | 4.0°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 62 | 12.8 | 8.08 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
- Ústí nad Labem in JanuaryCzechia · 48 kmHigh 2.8°C · Low -2.7°C · 50 mm rain
- Chemnitz in JanuaryGermany · 62 kmHigh 2.6°C · Low -2.3°C · 76 mm rain
- Cottbus in JanuaryGermany · 89 kmHigh 2.9°C · Low -1.6°C · 50 mm rain
- Zwickau in JanuaryGermany · 95 kmHigh 2.9°C · Low -1.9°C · 68 mm rain
- Liberec in JanuaryCzechia · 98 kmHigh 1.5°C · Low -3.5°C · 77 mm precipitation
- Leipzig in JanuaryGermany · 101 kmHigh 3.6°C · Low -1.3°C · 48 mm rain
- Prague in JanuaryCzechia · 117 kmHigh 3.1°C · Low -2.4°C · 37 mm rain
- Gera in JanuaryGermany · 118 kmHigh 3.4°C · Low -1.3°C · 49 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 Dresden) is explained once on the Dresden year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.