Climate averages 1991–2020

Catanzaro weather
in January.

A cool, wet month: the coolest and the 9th driest of the year.

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

Average high 12.7°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 6.0°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 100 mm 13 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cool month in Catanzaro: daytime highs average 12.7°C and nights cool to about 6.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 100 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes January a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 47 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Lamezia Terme (27 km away). In January its highs average 12.4°C, about as warm as Catanzaro, with 128 mm of rain.

Among the 79 cities listed in Italy, Catanzaro ranks 8th of 79 for the warmest January highs and 71st of 79 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 79 cities is 9.7°C; Catanzaro is 2.9°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.5°C to 13.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 100 mm to 99 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

Catanzaro climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Catanzaro, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	12.7°C6.0°C	6.0°C	100	12.8	9.810 h
February	13.1°C5.7°C	5.7°C	99	12.8	10.711 h
March	15.6°C7.4°C	7.4°C	101	13.4	11.912 h
April	18.4°C9.8°C	9.8°C	91	13.3	13.213 h
May	22.9°C13.7°C	13.7°C	80	11.5	14.314 h
June	27.8°C18.0°C	18.0°C	54	8.6	14.815 h
July	30.4°C20.8°C	20.8°C	53	8.1	14.615 h
August	30.7°C21.3°C	21.3°C	52	8.8	13.714 h
September	26.1°C18.1°C	18.1°C	90	11.4	12.512 h
October	22.1°C14.6°C	14.6°C	95	11.1	11.211 h
November	17.5°C10.8°C	10.8°C	108	12.5	10.110 h
December	13.7°C7.3°C	7.3°C	103	12.5	9.59 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 Catanzaro

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 Catanzaro) is explained once on the Catanzaro year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.