Climate averages 1991–2020
Gijón weather
in January.
A cool, wet month: the coolest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Gijón: daytime highs average 12.3°C and nights cool to about 6.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 120 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes January a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 21 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Avilés (21 km away). In January its highs average 12.1°C, about as warm as Gijón, with 116 mm of rain.
Among the 93 cities listed in Spain, Gijón ranks joint 45th of 93 for the warmest January highs and 88th of 93 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 93 cities is 12.5°C; Gijón is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.3°C to 12.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 120 mm to 102 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
Gijón climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 12.3°C6.0°C | 6.0°C | 120 | 14.6 | 9.39 h |
| February | 12.6°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 102 | 13.0 | 10.510 h |
| March | 14.4°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 107 | 14.3 | 11.912 h |
| April | 15.2°C8.4°C | 8.4°C | 119 | 15.5 | 13.413 h |
| May | 17.5°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 109 | 15.2 | 14.715 h |
| June | 20.0°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 78 | 12.0 | 15.415 h |
| July | 21.9°C16.1°C | 16.1°C | 64 | 11.4 | 15.115 h |
| August | 22.6°C16.6°C | 16.6°C | 72 | 12.1 | 14.014 h |
| September | 21.1°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 81 | 12.2 | 12.613 h |
| October | 18.7°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 123 | 14.3 | 11.111 h |
| November | 14.8°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 151 | 16.0 | 9.710 h |
| December | 13.0°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 121 | 13.8 | 9.09 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
- Avilés in JanuarySpain · 21 kmHigh 12.1°C · Low 7.2°C · 116 mm rain
- Oviedo in JanuarySpain · 24 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low 3.1°C · 104 mm rain
- León, Spain in JanuarySpain · 104 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low 0.1°C · 54 mm rain
- Santander in JanuarySpain · 150 kmHigh 12.5°C · Low 6.1°C · 115 mm rain
- Lugo in JanuarySpain · 164 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 2.8°C · 107 mm rain
- Palencia in JanuarySpain · 193 kmHigh 8.1°C · Low 0.9°C · 42 mm rain
- Burgos in JanuarySpain · 208 kmHigh 6.8°C · Low 0.3°C · 54 mm rain
- Barakaldo in JanuarySpain · 218 kmHigh 11.9°C · Low 7.0°C · 112 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 Gijón) is explained once on the Gijón year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.