Climate averages 1991–2020

Novi Sad weather
in January.

A cold, moderately wet month: the coolest and the driest of the year.

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

Average high 4.6°C Daytime mean, January

Average low -2.2°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 42 mm 9 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 9 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cold month in Novi Sad: daytime highs average 4.6°C and nights cool to about -2.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 42 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 10 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Zrenjanin (45 km away). In January its highs average 4.3°C, about as warm as Novi Sad, with 39 mm of rain.

Among the 13 cities listed in Serbia, Novi Sad ranks 9th of 13 for the warmest January highs and 3rd of 13 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 13 cities is 4.7°C; Novi Sad is 0.1°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 2.5°C to 7.1°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 42 mm to 43 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

Novi Sad climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Novi Sad, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	4.6°C-2.2°C	-2.2°C	42	8.6	9.29 h
February	7.1°C-1.4°C	-1.4°C	43	8.7	10.410 h
March	12.2°C2.3°C	2.3°C	46	9.4	11.912 h
April	17.9°C7.3°C	7.3°C	57	10.2	13.513 h
May	22.8°C12.3°C	12.3°C	67	11.6	14.815 h
June	26.4°C16.3°C	16.3°C	78	11.6	15.616 h
July	28.5°C18.2°C	18.2°C	63	9.8	15.315 h
August	28.8°C18.3°C	18.3°C	52	8.3	14.114 h
September	23.4°C13.8°C	13.8°C	54	8.3	12.613 h
October	17.9°C8.8°C	8.8°C	51	7.8	11.011 h
November	11.4°C4.1°C	4.1°C	51	8.1	9.610 h
December	5.3°C-0.9°C	-0.9°C	51	9.7	8.89 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 Novi Sad

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