Climate averages 1991–2020

Bergen weather
in January.

A cold, very wet month: the coolest and the joint 8th driest of the year.

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

Average high 2.4°C Daytime mean, January

Average low -1.2°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 249 mm 20 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 7 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cold month in Bergen: daytime highs average 2.4°C and nights cool to about -1.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 249 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes January a very wet month (the joint 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 6 h 42 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Stavanger (160 km away). In January its highs average 3.8°C, 1.4°C warmer than Bergen, with 195 mm of rain.

Among the 8 cities listed in Norway, Bergen ranks 3rd of 8 for the warmest January highs and 8th of 8 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 8 cities is 0.4°C; Bergen is 1.9°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.3°C to 2.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 249 mm to 211 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

Bergen climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Bergen, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	2.4°C-1.2°C	-1.2°C	249	20.3	6.77 h
February	2.6°C-1.7°C	-1.7°C	211	17.4	9.09 h
March	4.6°C-0.4°C	-0.4°C	192	18.3	11.712 h
April	8.6°C2.2°C	2.2°C	133	15.3	14.615 h
May	12.2°C5.6°C	5.6°C	116	14.0	17.217 h
June	15.0°C9.0°C	9.0°C	121	14.1	18.819 h
July	17.1°C11.3°C	11.3°C	149	16.4	18.118 h
August	17.1°C11.4°C	11.4°C	188	17.3	15.716 h
September	14.2°C9.1°C	9.1°C	249	17.7	13.013 h
October	9.7°C5.1°C	5.1°C	259	19.3	10.210 h
November	5.3°C1.7°C	1.7°C	257	18.9	7.58 h
December	2.9°C-0.7°C	-0.7°C	271	20.0	5.96 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 Bergen

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