Climate averages 1991–2020
Gera 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 Gera: daytime highs average 3.4°C and nights cool to about -1.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 49 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 29 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Zwickau (33 km away). In January its highs average 2.9°C, 0.5°C cooler than Gera, with 68 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Gera ranks joint 98th of 120 for the warmest January highs and joint 6th of 120 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 120 cities is 4.2°C; Gera is 0.8°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 49 mm to 41 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
Gera climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 3.4°C-1.3°C | -1.3°C | 49 | 12.1 | 8.58 h |
| February | 4.9°C-1.1°C | -1.1°C | 41 | 10.4 | 10.010 h |
| March | 8.7°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 54 | 12.4 | 11.812 h |
| April | 13.9°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 42 | 9.9 | 13.814 h |
| May | 18.0°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 66 | 11.6 | 15.515 h |
| June | 21.2°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 66 | 11.8 | 16.416 h |
| July | 23.3°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 81 | 12.3 | 16.016 h |
| August | 23.3°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 68 | 11.7 | 14.615 h |
| September | 18.8°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 61 | 10.4 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.7°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 53 | 10.5 | 10.811 h |
| November | 7.9°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 55 | 10.9 | 9.09 h |
| December | 4.2°C0.1°C | 0.1°C | 54 | 12.7 | 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
- Zwickau in JanuaryGermany · 33 kmHigh 2.9°C · Low -1.9°C · 68 mm rain
- Jena in JanuaryGermany · 35 kmHigh 3.8°C · Low -1.1°C · 44 mm rain
- Leipzig in JanuaryGermany · 55 kmHigh 3.6°C · Low -1.3°C · 48 mm rain
- Chemnitz in JanuaryGermany · 60 kmHigh 2.6°C · Low -2.3°C · 76 mm rain
- Halle (Saale) in JanuaryGermany · 67 kmHigh 3.6°C · Low -1.1°C · 42 mm rain
- Erfurt in JanuaryGermany · 74 kmHigh 3.3°C · Low -1.7°C · 43 mm rain
- Bayreuth in JanuaryGermany · 110 kmHigh 2.7°C · Low -2.4°C · 79 mm rain
- Dresden in JanuaryGermany · 118 kmHigh 3.1°C · Low -2.0°C · 62 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 Gera) is explained once on the Gera year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.