Climate averages 1991–2020
Erfurt 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 Erfurt: daytime highs average 3.3°C and nights cool to about -1.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 43 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 3rd 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 Jena (39 km away). In January its highs average 3.8°C, about as warm as Erfurt, with 44 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Erfurt ranks joint 104th of 120 for the warmest January highs and 2nd of 120 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 120 cities is 4.2°C; Erfurt is 0.9°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.5°C to 4.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 43 mm to 35 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
Erfurt climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 3.3°C-1.7°C | -1.7°C | 43 | 11.0 | 8.58 h |
| February | 4.9°C-1.5°C | -1.5°C | 35 | 9.3 | 10.010 h |
| March | 8.7°C0.6°C | 0.6°C | 47 | 11.5 | 11.812 h |
| April | 13.7°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 41 | 9.4 | 13.814 h |
| May | 17.7°C8.3°C | 8.3°C | 63 | 11.0 | 15.516 h |
| June | 20.9°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 57 | 11.3 | 16.516 h |
| July | 23.2°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 70 | 11.8 | 16.116 h |
| August | 23.2°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 60 | 10.6 | 14.615 h |
| September | 18.7°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 52 | 9.4 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.4°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 46 | 10.4 | 10.811 h |
| November | 7.7°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 49 | 10.4 | 9.09 h |
| December | 4.1°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 49 | 11.6 | 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
- Jena in JanuaryGermany · 39 kmHigh 3.8°C · Low -1.1°C · 44 mm rain
- Gera in JanuaryGermany · 74 kmHigh 3.4°C · Low -1.3°C · 49 mm rain
- Halle (Saale) in JanuaryGermany · 86 kmHigh 3.6°C · Low -1.1°C · 42 mm rain
- Göttingen in JanuaryGermany · 99 kmHigh 3.6°C · Low -0.9°C · 66 mm rain
- Leipzig in JanuaryGermany · 101 kmHigh 3.6°C · Low -1.3°C · 48 mm rain
- Zwickau in JanuaryGermany · 106 kmHigh 2.9°C · Low -1.9°C · 68 mm rain
- Kassel in JanuaryGermany · 114 kmHigh 3.7°C · Low -0.7°C · 58 mm rain
- Bamberg in JanuaryGermany · 120 kmHigh 3.5°C · Low -1.6°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 Erfurt) is explained once on the Erfurt year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.