Climate averages 1991–2020
Lüdenscheid 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 Lüdenscheid: daytime highs average 3.0°C and nights cool to about -1.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 103 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes January a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 26 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Iserlohn (18 km away). In January its highs average 3.7°C, 0.7°C warmer than Lüdenscheid, with 81 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Lüdenscheid ranks joint 113th of 120 for the warmest January highs and 116th of 120 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 120 cities is 4.2°C; Lüdenscheid is 1.3°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.0°C to 4.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 103 mm to 85 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
Lüdenscheid climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 3.0°C-1.5°C | -1.5°C | 103 | 15.5 | 8.48 h |
| February | 4.0°C-1.6°C | -1.6°C | 85 | 13.2 | 10.010 h |
| March | 7.7°C0.7°C | 0.7°C | 88 | 14.7 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.0°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 68 | 12.5 | 13.814 h |
| May | 15.8°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 82 | 13.7 | 15.516 h |
| June | 18.6°C10.7°C | 10.7°C | 88 | 14.4 | 16.516 h |
| July | 20.6°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 105 | 15.7 | 16.116 h |
| August | 20.4°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 99 | 14.8 | 14.615 h |
| September | 16.7°C9.9°C | 9.9°C | 87 | 13.3 | 12.713 h |
| October | 12.1°C6.6°C | 6.6°C | 87 | 13.4 | 10.711 h |
| November | 7.1°C2.8°C | 2.8°C | 89 | 14.8 | 9.09 h |
| December | 3.8°C-0.2°C | -0.2°C | 106 | 16.3 | 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
- Iserlohn in JanuaryGermany · 18 kmHigh 3.7°C · Low -0.7°C · 81 mm rain
- Hagen in JanuaryGermany · 19 kmHigh 4.6°C · Low 0.3°C · 108 mm rain
- Remscheid in JanuaryGermany · 31 kmHigh 3.5°C · Low -0.9°C · 104 mm rain
- Witten in JanuaryGermany · 31 kmHigh 4.6°C · Low 0.3°C · 83 mm rain
- Wuppertal in JanuaryGermany · 34 kmHigh 4.7°C · Low 0.2°C · 104 mm rain
- Dortmund in JanuaryGermany · 35 kmHigh 4.7°C · Low 0.1°C · 83 mm rain
- Arnsberg in JanuaryGermany · 37 kmHigh 3.4°C · Low -1.1°C · 79 mm rain
- Solingen in JanuaryGermany · 38 kmHigh 4.3°C · Low -0.1°C · 98 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 Lüdenscheid) is explained once on the Lüdenscheid year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.