Climate averages 1991–2020
Messina weather
in January.
A cool, 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 cool month in Messina: daytime highs average 13.5°C and nights cool to about 8.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 92 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes January a wet month (the joint 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 50 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Reggio Calabria (13 km away). In January its highs average 12.4°C, 1.2°C cooler than Messina, with 72 mm of rain.
Among the 79 cities listed in Italy, Messina ranks 6th of 79 for the warmest January highs and 69th of 79 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 79 cities is 9.7°C; Messina is 3.8°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 13.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 92 mm to 85 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
Messina climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 13.5°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 92 | 12.7 | 9.810 h |
| February | 13.6°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 85 | 11.9 | 10.711 h |
| March | 15.6°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 78 | 10.8 | 11.912 h |
| April | 18.0°C11.9°C | 11.9°C | 57 | 9.8 | 13.213 h |
| May | 22.1°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 30 | 5.8 | 14.214 h |
| June | 26.3°C19.3°C | 19.3°C | 21 | 3.9 | 14.815 h |
| July | 29.1°C21.9°C | 21.9°C | 8.5 | 2.3 | 14.515 h |
| August | 29.7°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 16 | 3.0 | 13.614 h |
| September | 26.1°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 65 | 9.4 | 12.512 h |
| October | 22.6°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 92 | 10.7 | 11.211 h |
| November | 18.4°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 87 | 11.7 | 10.110 h |
| December | 14.8°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 109 | 14.0 | 9.610 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
- Reggio Calabria in JanuaryItaly · 13 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 7.1°C · 72 mm rain
- Catania in JanuaryItaly · 89 kmHigh 14.1°C · Low 7.4°C · 76 mm rain
- Lamezia Terme in JanuaryItaly · 108 kmHigh 12.4°C · Low 7.9°C · 128 mm rain
- Catanzaro in JanuaryItaly · 119 kmHigh 12.7°C · Low 6.0°C · 100 mm rain
- Siracusa in JanuaryItaly · 127 kmHigh 14.4°C · Low 9.3°C · 73 mm rain
- Ragusa in JanuaryItaly · 159 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 5.7°C · 64 mm rain
- Gela in JanuaryItaly · 170 kmHigh 14.2°C · Low 7.9°C · 66 mm rain
- Palermo in JanuaryItaly · 192 kmHigh 14.1°C · Low 9.0°C · 65 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 Messina) is explained once on the Messina year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.