Climate averages 1991–2020
Kaiserslautern 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 Kaiserslautern: daytime highs average 4.5°C and nights cool to about -0.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 57 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 41 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Worms (47 km away). In January its highs average 4.6°C, about as warm as Kaiserslautern, with 48 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Kaiserslautern ranks joint 49th of 120 for the warmest January highs and joint 23rd of 120 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 120 cities is 4.2°C; Kaiserslautern is 0.3°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.5°C to 6.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 57 mm to 52 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
Kaiserslautern climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 4.5°C-0.2°C | -0.2°C | 57 | 11.3 | 8.79 h |
| February | 6.0°C-0.1°C | -0.1°C | 52 | 10.0 | 10.110 h |
| March | 10.1°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 58 | 11.5 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.6°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 54 | 11.2 | 13.714 h |
| May | 18.4°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 74 | 12.7 | 15.315 h |
| June | 21.8°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 67 | 11.7 | 16.216 h |
| July | 24.0°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 72 | 12.7 | 15.816 h |
| August | 23.9°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 65 | 11.6 | 14.414 h |
| September | 19.4°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 60 | 10.2 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.3°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 62 | 11.5 | 10.811 h |
| November | 8.7°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 60 | 11.9 | 9.29 h |
| December | 5.2°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 72 | 13.4 | 8.38 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
- Worms in JanuaryGermany · 47 kmHigh 4.6°C · Low -0.7°C · 48 mm rain
- Ludwigshafen am Rhein in JanuaryGermany · 49 kmHigh 4.9°C · Low -0.6°C · 59 mm rain
- Mannheim in JanuaryGermany · 51 kmHigh 4.8°C · Low -0.6°C · 59 mm rain
- Saarbrücken in JanuaryGermany · 60 kmHigh 4.9°C · Low 0.0°C · 79 mm rain
- Heidelberg, Germany in JanuaryGermany · 67 kmHigh 5.0°C · Low -0.4°C · 80 mm rain
- Karlsruhe in JanuaryGermany · 67 kmHigh 5.2°C · Low -0.3°C · 68 mm rain
- Mainz in JanuaryGermany · 70 kmHigh 4.4°C · Low -0.6°C · 49 mm rain
- Wiesbaden in JanuaryGermany · 79 kmHigh 4.6°C · Low -0.1°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 Kaiserslautern) is explained once on the Kaiserslautern year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.