Climate averages 1991–2020

Ashdod weather
in January.

A mild, moderately wet month: the coolest and the wettest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 16.1°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 10.0°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 63 mm 9 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a mild month in Ashdod: daytime highs average 16.1°C and nights cool to about 10.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 63 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 19 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Ashkelon (16 km away). In January its highs average 16.0°C, about as warm as Ashdod, with 125 mm of rain.

Among the 18 cities listed in Israel, Ashdod ranks 13th of 18 for the warmest January highs and 3rd of 18 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 18 cities is 16.2°C; Ashdod is 0.1°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.7°C to 16.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 63 mm to 51 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Ashdod climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Ashdod, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	16.1°C10.0°C	10.0°C	63	8.8	10.310 h
February	16.8°C10.0°C	10.0°C	51	8.2	11.011 h
March	19.2°C11.6°C	11.6°C	33	5.6	12.012 h
April	22.5°C13.9°C	13.9°C	11	2.7	12.913 h
May	25.8°C17.2°C	17.2°C	4.0	0.9	13.814 h
June	28.4°C20.1°C	20.1°C	0.6	0.1	14.214 h
July	30.3°C22.5°C	22.5°C	0.2	0.1	14.014 h
August	30.9°C23.1°C	23.1°C	0.1	0.0	13.313 h
September	29.6°C22.1°C	22.1°C	1.2	0.3	12.412 h
October	27.1°C19.9°C	19.9°C	8.6	2.2	11.411 h
November	22.6°C15.8°C	15.8°C	22	4.3	10.611 h
December	18.1°C12.0°C	12.0°C	44	6.6	10.110 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

Distance from Ashdod

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Ashdod) is explained once on the Ashdod year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.