Climate averages 1991–2020
Hanau am Main weather
in January.
A cold, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Hanau am Main: daytime highs average 4.4°C and nights cool to about -0.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 69 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 35 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Offenbach (11 km away). In January its highs average 4.4°C, about as warm as Hanau am Main, with 56 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Hanau am Main ranks joint 56th of 120 for the warmest January highs and joint 63rd of 120 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 120 cities is 4.2°C; Hanau am Main is 0.2°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.6°C to 5.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 69 mm to 56 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
Hanau am Main climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 4.4°C-0.6°C | -0.6°C | 69 | 12.5 | 8.69 h |
| February | 5.9°C-0.6°C | -0.6°C | 56 | 10.6 | 10.010 h |
| March | 10.1°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 59 | 11.4 | 11.812 h |
| April | 14.8°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 49 | 10.4 | 13.714 h |
| May | 18.7°C9.4°C | 9.4°C | 62 | 10.8 | 15.415 h |
| June | 22.1°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 59 | 10.9 | 16.316 h |
| July | 24.3°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 66 | 11.7 | 15.916 h |
| August | 24.3°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 58 | 10.3 | 14.514 h |
| September | 19.8°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 58 | 9.3 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.3°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 60 | 11.2 | 10.811 h |
| November | 8.5°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 65 | 11.6 | 9.19 h |
| December | 5.0°C0.4°C | 0.4°C | 80 | 14.4 | 8.28 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
- Offenbach in JanuaryGermany · 11 kmHigh 4.4°C · Low -0.6°C · 56 mm rain
- Frankfurt am Main in JanuaryGermany · 17 kmHigh 4.4°C · Low -0.6°C · 56 mm rain
- Darmstadt in JanuaryGermany · 35 kmHigh 4.5°C · Low -0.4°C · 71 mm rain
- Wiesbaden in JanuaryGermany · 48 kmHigh 4.6°C · Low -0.1°C · 49 mm rain
- Mainz in JanuaryGermany · 48 kmHigh 4.4°C · Low -0.6°C · 49 mm rain
- Gießen in JanuaryGermany · 53 kmHigh 4.0°C · Low -0.6°C · 56 mm rain
- Worms in JanuaryGermany · 68 kmHigh 4.6°C · Low -0.7°C · 48 mm rain
- Marburg an der Lahn in JanuaryGermany · 76 kmHigh 3.4°C · Low -1.2°C · 58 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 Hanau am Main) is explained once on the Hanau am Main year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.