Climate averages 1991–2020
Villingen-Schwenningen 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 Villingen-Schwenningen: daytime highs average 2.3°C and nights cool to about -4.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 87 mm of rain on roughly 13 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 51 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Freiburg (48 km away). In January its highs average 5.3°C, 3.0°C warmer than Villingen-Schwenningen, with 91 mm of rain.
Among the 120 cities listed in Germany, Villingen-Schwenningen ranks 120th of 120 for the warmest January highs and 109th of 120 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 120 cities is 4.2°C; Villingen-Schwenningen is 2.0°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.2°C to 3.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 87 mm to 75 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
Villingen-Schwenningen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 2.3°C-4.1°C | -4.1°C | 87 | 12.9 | 8.99 h |
| February | 3.4°C-4.1°C | -4.1°C | 75 | 11.1 | 10.210 h |
| March | 7.5°C-0.8°C | -0.8°C | 87 | 13.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 12.0°C2.8°C | 2.8°C | 87 | 14.2 | 13.614 h |
| May | 15.9°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 133 | 17.5 | 15.215 h |
| June | 19.3°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 126 | 16.7 | 16.016 h |
| July | 21.2°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 138 | 16.7 | 15.616 h |
| August | 21.2°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 124 | 15.4 | 14.314 h |
| September | 16.9°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 93 | 12.5 | 12.613 h |
| October | 12.5°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 91 | 12.7 | 10.911 h |
| November | 6.7°C0.4°C | 0.4°C | 83 | 12.3 | 9.39 h |
| December | 3.0°C-2.7°C | -2.7°C | 100 | 13.7 | 8.58 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
- Freiburg in JanuaryGermany · 48 kmHigh 5.3°C · Low -1.2°C · 91 mm rain
- Winterthur in JanuarySwitzerland · 64 kmHigh 4.5°C · Low -1.9°C · 79 mm rain
- Tübingen in JanuaryGermany · 66 kmHigh 4.5°C · Low -2.0°C · 70 mm rain
- Konstanz in JanuaryGermany · 68 kmHigh 3.6°C · Low -1.2°C · 71 mm rain
- Reutlingen in JanuaryGermany · 71 kmHigh 4.4°C · Low -2.0°C · 67 mm rain
- Zürich in JanuarySwitzerland · 77 kmHigh 4.8°C · Low -1.4°C · 92 mm rain
- Strasbourg in JanuaryFrance · 80 kmHigh 5.4°C · Low -0.5°C · 72 mm rain
- Basel in JanuarySwitzerland · 89 kmHigh 5.4°C · Low -1.7°C · 80 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 Villingen-Schwenningen) is explained once on the Villingen-Schwenningen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.