Climate averages 1991–2020
Leipzig weather
in January.
A cold, moderately wet month: the coolest and the joint 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Leipzig: daytime highs average 3.6°C and nights cool to about -1.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 48 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the joint 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 25 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Halle (Saale) (31 km away). In January its highs average 3.6°C, about as warm as Leipzig, with 42 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Leipzig ranks joint 86th of 120 for the warmest January highs and joint 4th of 120 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 120 cities is 4.2°C; Leipzig is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.6°C to 5.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 48 mm to 37 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
Leipzig climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 3.6°C-1.3°C | -1.3°C | 48 | 11.4 | 8.48 h |
| February | 5.2°C-1.1°C | -1.1°C | 37 | 9.8 | 9.910 h |
| March | 9.0°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 49 | 11.8 | 11.812 h |
| April | 14.1°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 38 | 9.3 | 13.814 h |
| May | 18.5°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 61 | 10.8 | 15.616 h |
| June | 21.7°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 59 | 11.0 | 16.517 h |
| July | 23.9°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 74 | 11.9 | 16.116 h |
| August | 23.9°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 62 | 11.2 | 14.615 h |
| September | 19.3°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 56 | 9.6 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.0°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 48 | 10.2 | 10.711 h |
| November | 8.1°C3.1°C | 3.1°C | 52 | 10.7 | 9.09 h |
| December | 4.4°C0.1°C | 0.1°C | 51 | 12.4 | 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
- Halle (Saale) in JanuaryGermany · 31 kmHigh 3.6°C · Low -1.1°C · 42 mm rain
- Gera in JanuaryGermany · 55 kmHigh 3.4°C · Low -1.3°C · 49 mm rain
- Chemnitz in JanuaryGermany · 68 kmHigh 2.6°C · Low -2.3°C · 76 mm rain
- Zwickau in JanuaryGermany · 69 kmHigh 2.9°C · Low -1.9°C · 68 mm rain
- Jena in JanuaryGermany · 71 kmHigh 3.8°C · Low -1.1°C · 44 mm rain
- Dresden in JanuaryGermany · 101 kmHigh 3.1°C · Low -2.0°C · 62 mm rain
- Erfurt in JanuaryGermany · 101 kmHigh 3.3°C · Low -1.7°C · 43 mm rain
- Magdeburg in JanuaryGermany · 102 kmHigh 3.7°C · Low -0.9°C · 50 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 Leipzig) is explained once on the Leipzig year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.