Climate averages 1991–2020
La Spezia weather
in January.
A cool, wet month: the coolest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in La Spezia: daytime highs average 10.2°C and nights cool to about 5.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 113 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes January a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 17 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Lucca (62 km away). In January its highs average 10.0°C, about as warm as La Spezia, with 78 mm of rain.
Among the 79 cities listed in Italy, La Spezia ranks 36th of 79 for the warmest January highs and 75th of 79 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 79 cities is 9.7°C; La Spezia is 0.5°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 10.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 113 mm to 104 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
La Spezia climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 10.2°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 113 | 11.7 | 9.39 h |
| February | 10.6°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 104 | 10.0 | 10.410 h |
| March | 13.1°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 95 | 9.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.8°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 97 | 10.1 | 13.413 h |
| May | 19.5°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 71 | 8.6 | 14.715 h |
| June | 23.1°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 61 | 6.7 | 15.415 h |
| July | 25.8°C19.9°C | 19.9°C | 33 | 4.0 | 15.115 h |
| August | 26.3°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 53 | 6.2 | 14.014 h |
| September | 22.7°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 136 | 9.3 | 12.613 h |
| October | 18.6°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 207 | 13.2 | 11.011 h |
| November | 14.3°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 204 | 14.1 | 9.710 h |
| December | 11.2°C6.5°C | 6.5°C | 145 | 13.0 | 8.99 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
- Lucca in JanuaryItaly · 62 kmHigh 10.0°C · Low 2.6°C · 78 mm rain
- Pisa in JanuaryItaly · 64 kmHigh 10.6°C · Low 3.8°C · 78 mm rain
- Livorno in JanuaryItaly · 74 kmHigh 10.8°C · Low 5.8°C · 72 mm rain
- Genoa in JanuaryItaly · 78 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 3.9°C · 95 mm rain
- Parma in JanuaryItaly · 87 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low -0.2°C · 56 mm rain
- Pistoia in JanuaryItaly · 90 kmHigh 8.9°C · Low 1.3°C · 76 mm rain
- Reggio nell'Emilia in JanuaryItaly · 92 kmHigh 7.4°C · Low 0.0°C · 48 mm rain
- Prato in JanuaryItaly · 105 kmHigh 8.8°C · Low 1.8°C · 76 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 La Spezia) is explained once on the La Spezia year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.