Climate averages 1991–2020

Seosan weather
in January.

A cold, fairly dry month: the coolest and the driest of the year.

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

Average high 2.5°C Daytime mean, January
Average low -2.8°C Night-time mean, January
Rainfall 22 mm 5 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Seosan · average highYear overview

January is a cold month in Seosan: daytime highs average 2.5°C and nights cool to about -2.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 22 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 57 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Hongseong (28 km away). In January its highs average 2.9°C, about as warm as Seosan, with 22 mm of rain.

Among the 79 cities listed in South Korea, Seosan ranks joint 48th of 79 for the warmest January highs and joint 27th of 79 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 79 cities is 3.6°C; Seosan is 1.1°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 1.9°C to 4.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 22 mm to 28 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. -5051015202530 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 2500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Seosan climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Seosan, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January, selected 2.5°C-2.8°C-2.8°C224.89.910 h
February 4.4°C-1.9°C-1.9°C284.310.811 h
March 9.0°C1.7°C1.7°C415.611.912 h
April 15.1°C6.8°C6.8°C696.813.113 h
May 20.3°C12.2°C12.2°C797.014.114 h
June 24.6°C17.3°C17.3°C1167.714.615 h
July 27.0°C21.9°C21.9°C24514.814.414 h
August 27.9°C22.9°C22.9°C22513.713.614 h
September 24.2°C18.4°C18.4°C1337.512.512 h
October 18.6°C12.3°C12.3°C555.311.311 h
November 11.7°C5.7°C5.7°C497.210.210 h
December 5.0°C-0.5°C-0.5°C266.19.710 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 Seosan

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