Climate averages 1991–2020

Kraków weather
in January.

A cold month with moderate precipitation: the coolest and the 2nd driest of the year.

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

Average high 0.9°C Daytime mean, January

Average low -5.0°C Night-time mean, January

Precipitation 43 mm 11 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 9 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cold month in Kraków: daytime highs average 0.9°C and nights cool to about -5.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 43 mm of precipitation on roughly 11 days, which makes January a month with moderate precipitation (the 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 36 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Jaworzno (50 km away). In January its highs average 0.4°C, about as warm as Kraków, with 46 mm of precipitation.

Among the 60 cities listed in Poland, Kraków ranks joint 33rd of 60 for the warmest January highs and joint 30th of 60 for the driest January (precipitation, lowest first). The mean January high of those 60 cities is 1.1°C; Kraków is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 2.0°C to 2.9°C, and monthly precipitation rises from 43 mm to 44 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly precipitation

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

Kraków climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Kraków, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Precipitation mm/month	Wet days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	0.9°C-5.0°C	-5.0°C	43	10.9	8.69 h
February	2.9°C-4.1°C	-4.1°C	44	10.5	10.010 h
March	7.7°C-1.1°C	-1.1°C	52	11.7	11.812 h
April	14.0°C3.6°C	3.6°C	58	11.1	13.714 h
May	18.5°C8.8°C	8.8°C	90	14.0	15.415 h
June	21.7°C12.6°C	12.6°C	88	13.4	16.316 h
July	23.6°C14.7°C	14.7°C	101	13.9	15.916 h
August	23.7°C14.3°C	14.3°C	75	11.1	14.514 h
September	18.6°C10.1°C	10.1°C	73	10.6	12.713 h
October	13.2°C5.5°C	5.5°C	59	10.4	10.811 h
November	7.2°C1.0°C	1.0°C	46	9.9	9.19 h
December	2.3°C-3.1°C	-3.1°C	41	10.2	8.28 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

Distance from Kraków

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