Climate averages 1991–2020
Pamplona weather
in January.
A cool, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Pamplona: daytime highs average 8.4°C and nights cool to about 1.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 68 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 25 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Donostia / San Sebastián (61 km away). In January its highs average 11.2°C, 2.8°C warmer than Pamplona, with 135 mm of rain.
Among the 93 cities listed in Spain, Pamplona ranks joint 88th of 93 for the warmest January highs and 74th of 93 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 93 cities is 12.5°C; Pamplona is 4.1°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.0°C to 9.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 68 mm to 60 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
Pamplona climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 8.4°C1.5°C | 1.5°C | 68 | 11.4 | 9.49 h |
| February | 9.4°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 60 | 10.3 | 10.511 h |
| March | 12.8°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 66 | 10.9 | 11.912 h |
| April | 14.9°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 80 | 13.0 | 13.413 h |
| May | 18.7°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 69 | 11.2 | 14.615 h |
| June | 22.7°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 49 | 7.8 | 15.315 h |
| July | 25.3°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 26 | 5.4 | 15.015 h |
| August | 25.9°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 42 | 6.4 | 13.914 h |
| September | 22.2°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 50 | 7.9 | 12.513 h |
| October | 17.7°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 75 | 10.0 | 11.111 h |
| November | 11.8°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 82 | 12.0 | 9.810 h |
| December | 8.9°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 66 | 10.6 | 9.19 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
- Donostia / San Sebastián in JanuarySpain · 61 kmHigh 11.2°C · Low 6.5°C · 135 mm rain
- Logroño in JanuarySpain · 77 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low 2.0°C · 55 mm rain
- Gasteiz / Vitoria in JanuarySpain · 84 kmHigh 8.5°C · Low 1.4°C · 76 mm rain
- Bilbao in JanuarySpain · 115 kmHigh 11.9°C · Low 7.2°C · 112 mm rain
- Pau in JanuaryFrance · 118 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 1.7°C · 112 mm rain
- Barakaldo in JanuarySpain · 122 kmHigh 11.9°C · Low 7.0°C · 112 mm rain
- Zaragoza in JanuarySpain · 144 kmHigh 11.3°C · Low 3.0°C · 28 mm rain
- Burgos in JanuarySpain · 177 kmHigh 6.8°C · Low 0.3°C · 54 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 Pamplona) is explained once on the Pamplona year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.