Climate averages 1991–2020
Freiburg weather
in January.
A cold, wet month: the coolest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Freiburg: daytime highs average 5.3°C and nights cool to about -1.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 91 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes January a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 51 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Mulhouse (48 km away). In January its highs average 5.0°C, about as warm as Freiburg, with 75 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Freiburg ranks joint 7th of 120 for the warmest January highs and 112th of 120 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 120 cities is 4.2°C; Freiburg is 1.0°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.3°C to 6.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 91 mm to 77 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
Freiburg climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 5.3°C-1.2°C | -1.2°C | 91 | 13.3 | 8.99 h |
| February | 6.5°C-1.1°C | -1.1°C | 77 | 11.5 | 10.210 h |
| March | 10.7°C2.1°C | 2.1°C | 83 | 13.3 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.1°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 74 | 13.1 | 13.614 h |
| May | 18.9°C9.9°C | 9.9°C | 105 | 15.4 | 15.115 h |
| June | 22.4°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 89 | 14.2 | 16.016 h |
| July | 24.4°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 89 | 13.5 | 15.616 h |
| August | 24.4°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 81 | 12.3 | 14.314 h |
| September | 20.0°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 77 | 11.3 | 12.613 h |
| October | 15.4°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 85 | 12.2 | 10.911 h |
| November | 9.5°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 89 | 12.4 | 9.39 h |
| December | 5.8°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 108 | 14.4 | 8.58 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
- Mulhouse in JanuaryFrance · 48 kmHigh 5.0°C · Low -1.2°C · 75 mm rain
- Villingen-Schwenningen in JanuaryGermany · 48 kmHigh 2.3°C · Low -4.1°C · 87 mm rain
- Basel in JanuarySwitzerland · 53 kmHigh 5.4°C · Low -1.7°C · 80 mm rain
- Strasbourg in JanuaryFrance · 66 kmHigh 5.4°C · Low -0.5°C · 72 mm rain
- Winterthur in JanuarySwitzerland · 85 kmHigh 4.5°C · Low -1.9°C · 79 mm rain
- Zürich in JanuarySwitzerland · 87 kmHigh 4.8°C · Low -1.4°C · 92 mm rain
- Konstanz in JanuaryGermany · 106 kmHigh 3.6°C · Low -1.2°C · 71 mm rain
- Tübingen in JanuaryGermany · 106 kmHigh 4.5°C · Low -2.0°C · 70 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 Freiburg) is explained once on the Freiburg year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.