Climate averages 1991–2020
Drammen weather
in January.
A freezing month with moderate precipitation: the coolest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a freezing month in Drammen: daytime highs average -1.7°C and nights cool to about -6.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 78 mm of precipitation on roughly 12 days, which makes January a month with moderate precipitation (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 6 h 52 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Oslo (36 km away). In January its highs average -1.9°C, about as warm as Drammen, with 72 mm of precipitation.
Among the 8 cities listed in Norway, Drammen ranks 6th of 8 for the warmest January highs and 4th of 8 for the driest January (precipitation, lowest first). The mean January high of those 8 cities is 0.4°C; Drammen is 2.1°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.8°C to 0.2°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 78 mm to 53 mm.
The annual picture
January in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Drammen climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | -1.7°C-6.7°C | -6.7°C | 78 | 11.5 | 6.97 h |
| February | 0.2°C-5.9°C | -5.9°C | 53 | 8.5 | 9.19 h |
| March | 4.5°C-3.2°C | -3.2°C | 57 | 8.3 | 11.812 h |
| April | 9.8°C0.9°C | 0.9°C | 56 | 9.0 | 14.514 h |
| May | 15.7°C6.3°C | 6.3°C | 76 | 11.0 | 17.117 h |
| June | 19.4°C10.9°C | 10.9°C | 91 | 12.0 | 18.619 h |
| July | 21.6°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 101 | 12.4 | 17.918 h |
| August | 20.3°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 104 | 13.3 | 15.616 h |
| September | 15.8°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 94 | 10.7 | 12.913 h |
| October | 9.4°C4.8°C | 4.8°C | 98 | 11.8 | 10.210 h |
| November | 4.1°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 95 | 12.4 | 7.78 h |
| December | -0.3°C-4.9°C | -4.9°C | 74 | 11.3 | 6.16 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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
- Oslo in JanuaryNorway · 36 kmHigh -1.9°C · Low -6.8°C · 72 mm precipitation
- Lillestrøm in JanuaryNorway · 53 kmHigh -2.0°C · Low -6.9°C · 65 mm precipitation
- Fredrikstad in JanuaryNorway · 71 kmHigh 1.0°C · Low -2.8°C · 65 mm precipitation
- Kristiansand in JanuaryNorway · 218 kmHigh 3.0°C · Low -0.3°C · 134 mm rain
- Gothenburg in JanuarySweden · 248 kmHigh 2.1°C · Low -1.8°C · 71 mm rain
- Stavanger in JanuaryNorway · 268 kmHigh 3.8°C · Low 1.0°C · 195 mm rain
- Borås in JanuarySweden · 275 kmHigh 0.9°C · Low -3.1°C · 70 mm precipitation
- Bergen in JanuaryNorway · 280 kmHigh 2.4°C · Low -1.2°C · 249 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 Drammen) is explained once on the Drammen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.