Climate averages 1991–2020
Stavanger weather
in January.
A cold, very wet month: the 11th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Stavanger: daytime highs average 3.8°C and nights cool to about 1.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 195 mm of rain on roughly 19 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 7 h 03 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Bergen (160 km away). In January its highs average 2.4°C, 1.4°C cooler than Stavanger, with 249 mm of rain.
Among the 8 cities listed in Norway, Stavanger ranks 1st of 8 for the warmest January highs and 7th of 8 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 8 cities is 0.4°C; Stavanger is 3.3°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs fall by 0.4°C to 3.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 195 mm to 157 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
Stavanger climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 3.8°C1.0°C | 1.0°C | 195 | 18.6 | 7.07 h |
| February | 3.4°C0.2°C | 0.2°C | 157 | 16.3 | 9.29 h |
| March | 4.8°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 133 | 16.3 | 11.812 h |
| April | 8.2°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 94 | 14.2 | 14.414 h |
| May | 11.5°C6.6°C | 6.6°C | 93 | 13.4 | 16.917 h |
| June | 14.2°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 102 | 14.3 | 18.318 h |
| July | 16.5°C12.2°C | 12.2°C | 122 | 15.2 | 17.718 h |
| August | 16.9°C12.8°C | 12.8°C | 169 | 16.9 | 15.515 h |
| September | 14.4°C10.7°C | 10.7°C | 201 | 17.1 | 12.913 h |
| October | 10.4°C7.3°C | 7.3°C | 221 | 18.5 | 10.310 h |
| November | 6.9°C4.1°C | 4.1°C | 210 | 18.5 | 7.88 h |
| December | 4.7°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 209 | 19.1 | 6.36 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
- Bergen in JanuaryNorway · 160 kmHigh 2.4°C · Low -1.2°C · 249 mm rain
- Kristiansand in JanuaryNorway · 160 kmHigh 3.0°C · Low -0.3°C · 134 mm rain
- Drammen in JanuaryNorway · 268 kmHigh -1.7°C · Low -6.7°C · 78 mm precipitation
- Fredrikstad in JanuaryNorway · 298 kmHigh 1.0°C · Low -2.8°C · 65 mm precipitation
- Oslo in JanuaryNorway · 302 kmHigh -1.9°C · Low -6.8°C · 72 mm precipitation
- Lillestrøm in JanuaryNorway · 320 kmHigh -2.0°C · Low -6.9°C · 65 mm precipitation
- Aalborg in JanuaryDenmark · 326 kmHigh 3.4°C · Low -0.2°C · 57 mm rain
- Gothenburg in JanuarySweden · 390 kmHigh 2.1°C · Low -1.8°C · 71 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 Stavanger) is explained once on the Stavanger year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.