Climate averages 1991–2020
Paju weather
in January.
A cold month with light precipitation: the coolest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Paju: daytime highs average 1.4°C and nights cool to about -7.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 17 mm of precipitation on roughly 4 days, which makes January a month with light precipitation (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 52 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Goyang-si (13 km away). In January its highs average 1.5°C, about as warm as Paju, with 17 mm of precipitation.
Among the 79 cities listed in South Korea, Paju ranks joint 71st of 79 for the warmest January highs and joint 1st of 79 for the driest January (precipitation, lowest first). The mean January high of those 79 cities is 3.6°C; Paju is 2.1°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 3.0°C to 4.5°C, and monthly precipitation rises from 17 mm to 24 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
Paju climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 1.4°C-7.2°C | -7.2°C | 17 | 3.5 | 9.910 h |
| February | 4.5°C-5.0°C | -5.0°C | 24 | 3.9 | 10.811 h |
| March | 9.9°C-0.6°C | -0.6°C | 35 | 5.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 16.4°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 66 | 7.2 | 13.113 h |
| May | 21.9°C11.5°C | 11.5°C | 98 | 8.0 | 14.214 h |
| June | 26.2°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 125 | 9.0 | 14.715 h |
| July | 27.8°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 313 | 16.3 | 14.515 h |
| August | 28.5°C21.9°C | 21.9°C | 264 | 14.9 | 13.614 h |
| September | 24.6°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 120 | 7.9 | 12.512 h |
| October | 18.4°C8.8°C | 8.8°C | 52 | 5.3 | 11.311 h |
| November | 10.4°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 47 | 7.0 | 10.210 h |
| December | 3.3°C-4.9°C | -4.9°C | 22 | 4.8 | 9.610 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
- Goyang-si in JanuarySouth Korea · 13 kmHigh 1.5°C · Low -6.9°C · 17 mm precipitation
- Gimpo-si in JanuarySouth Korea · 16 kmHigh 1.4°C · Low -6.1°C · 18 mm precipitation
- Uijeongbu-si in JanuarySouth Korea · 24 kmHigh 1.5°C · Low -6.9°C · 18 mm precipitation
- Yangju in JanuarySouth Korea · 27 kmHigh 1.4°C · Low -7.2°C · 18 mm precipitation
- Seoul in JanuarySouth Korea · 28 kmHigh 1.6°C · Low -6.9°C · 19 mm precipitation
- Bucheon-si in JanuarySouth Korea · 29 kmHigh 1.7°C · Low -6.0°C · 18 mm precipitation
- Kaesŏng in JanuaryNorth Korea · 30 kmHigh 1.4°C · Low -7.3°C · 16 mm precipitation
- Gwangmyeong in JanuarySouth Korea · 33 kmHigh 1.7°C · Low -6.4°C · 18 mm precipitation
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 Paju) is explained once on the Paju year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Goyang-si lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.