Climate averages 1991–2020
Velbert weather
in January.
A cold, wet month: the coolest and the joint 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Velbert: daytime highs average 4.0°C and nights cool to about -0.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 98 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes January a wet month (the joint 10th 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 Wuppertal (11 km away). In January its highs average 4.7°C, 0.7°C warmer than Velbert, with 104 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Velbert ranks joint 71st of 120 for the warmest January highs and joint 113th of 120 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 120 cities is 4.2°C; Velbert is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.2°C to 5.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 98 mm to 80 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
Velbert climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 4.0°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 98 | 14.9 | 8.48 h |
| February | 5.2°C-0.4°C | -0.4°C | 80 | 13.4 | 9.910 h |
| March | 8.7°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 79 | 13.8 | 11.812 h |
| April | 13.0°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 60 | 11.6 | 13.814 h |
| May | 16.7°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 72 | 12.5 | 15.616 h |
| June | 19.6°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 83 | 12.9 | 16.517 h |
| July | 21.6°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 98 | 14.5 | 16.116 h |
| August | 21.3°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 94 | 13.7 | 14.615 h |
| September | 17.7°C10.7°C | 10.7°C | 80 | 12.2 | 12.713 h |
| October | 13.0°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 87 | 12.9 | 10.711 h |
| November | 8.0°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 88 | 14.3 | 9.09 h |
| December | 4.6°C0.6°C | 0.6°C | 106 | 16.1 | 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
- Wuppertal in JanuaryGermany · 11 kmHigh 4.7°C · Low 0.2°C · 104 mm rain
- Essen in JanuaryGermany · 14 kmHigh 4.9°C · Low 0.3°C · 78 mm rain
- Ratingen in JanuaryGermany · 14 kmHigh 5.1°C · Low 0.7°C · 79 mm rain
- Mülheim in JanuaryGermany · 16 kmHigh 5.3°C · Low 0.9°C · 78 mm rain
- Solingen in JanuaryGermany · 18 kmHigh 4.3°C · Low -0.1°C · 98 mm rain
- Gelsenkirchen in JanuaryGermany · 19 kmHigh 5.1°C · Low 0.5°C · 78 mm rain
- Remscheid in JanuaryGermany · 20 kmHigh 3.5°C · Low -0.9°C · 104 mm rain
- Bochum in JanuaryGermany · 20 kmHigh 4.8°C · Low 0.2°C · 83 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 Velbert) is explained once on the Velbert year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Solingen lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.