Climate averages 1991–2020
Remscheid 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 Remscheid: daytime highs average 3.5°C and nights cool to about -0.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 104 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes January a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 27 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Solingen (8 km away). In January its highs average 4.3°C, 0.8°C warmer than Remscheid, with 98 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Remscheid ranks joint 93rd of 120 for the warmest January highs and joint 117th of 120 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 120 cities is 4.2°C; Remscheid is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.2°C to 4.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 104 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
Remscheid climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 3.5°C-0.9°C | -0.9°C | 104 | 15.3 | 8.48 h |
| February | 4.7°C-1.0°C | -1.0°C | 85 | 13.6 | 10.010 h |
| March | 8.3°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 85 | 14.5 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.6°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 65 | 12.4 | 13.814 h |
| May | 16.3°C8.0°C | 8.0°C | 78 | 13.1 | 15.516 h |
| June | 19.2°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 87 | 13.6 | 16.516 h |
| July | 21.2°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 105 | 15.0 | 16.116 h |
| August | 21.0°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 99 | 14.3 | 14.615 h |
| September | 17.2°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 86 | 12.7 | 12.713 h |
| October | 12.6°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 91 | 13.4 | 10.711 h |
| November | 7.5°C3.1°C | 3.1°C | 92 | 14.8 | 9.09 h |
| December | 4.2°C0.1°C | 0.1°C | 110 | 16.6 | 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
- Solingen in JanuaryGermany · 8 kmHigh 4.3°C · Low -0.1°C · 98 mm rain
- Wuppertal in JanuaryGermany · 9 kmHigh 4.7°C · Low 0.2°C · 104 mm rain
- Velbert in JanuaryGermany · 20 kmHigh 4.0°C · Low -0.4°C · 98 mm rain
- Bergisch Gladbach in JanuaryGermany · 22 kmHigh 4.9°C · Low 0.3°C · 109 mm rain
- Leverkusen in JanuaryGermany · 22 kmHigh 5.2°C · Low 0.6°C · 90 mm rain
- Ratingen in JanuaryGermany · 27 kmHigh 5.1°C · Low 0.7°C · 79 mm rain
- Hagen in JanuaryGermany · 28 kmHigh 4.6°C · Low 0.3°C · 108 mm rain
- Düsseldorf in JanuaryGermany · 29 kmHigh 5.3°C · Low 0.6°C · 79 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 Remscheid) is explained once on the Remscheid year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Wuppertal lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.