Climate averages 1991–2020
Vigo weather
in January.
A cool, very wet month: the coolest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Vigo: daytime highs average 12.3°C and nights cool to about 6.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 221 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 28 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Pontevedra (23 km away). In January its highs average 12.7°C, about as warm as Vigo, with 197 mm of rain.
Among the 93 cities listed in Spain, Vigo ranks joint 45th of 93 for the warmest January highs and 93rd of 93 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 93 cities is 12.5°C; Vigo is 0.1°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.8°C to 13.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 221 mm to 149 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
Vigo 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°C6.5°C | 6.5°C | 221 | 14.6 | 9.59 h |
| February | 13.1°C6.4°C | 6.4°C | 149 | 11.2 | 10.511 h |
| March | 15.2°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 158 | 11.6 | 11.912 h |
| April | 16.2°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 152 | 13.4 | 13.313 h |
| May | 18.6°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 118 | 12.3 | 14.615 h |
| June | 21.4°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 57 | 7.6 | 15.215 h |
| July | 23.6°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 35 | 5.2 | 14.915 h |
| August | 23.9°C16.1°C | 16.1°C | 49 | 6.0 | 13.914 h |
| September | 22.0°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 88 | 8.7 | 12.513 h |
| October | 18.8°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 214 | 13.5 | 11.111 h |
| November | 14.9°C9.3°C | 9.3°C | 235 | 15.2 | 9.810 h |
| December | 13.1°C7.4°C | 7.4°C | 224 | 15.0 | 9.29 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
- Pontevedra in JanuarySpain · 23 kmHigh 12.7°C · Low 6.2°C · 197 mm rain
- Ourense in JanuarySpain · 72 kmHigh 11.6°C · Low 3.8°C · 108 mm rain
- Santiago de Compostela in JanuarySpain · 73 kmHigh 10.8°C · Low 4.0°C · 141 mm rain
- Braga in JanuaryPortugal · 80 kmHigh 11.9°C · Low 3.7°C · 191 mm rain
- Porto in JanuaryPortugal · 121 kmHigh 12.8°C · Low 6.3°C · 150 mm rain
- Lugo in JanuarySpain · 129 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 2.8°C · 107 mm rain
- A Coruña in JanuarySpain · 129 kmHigh 12.3°C · Low 7.5°C · 141 mm rain
- Aveiro in JanuaryPortugal · 177 kmHigh 13.5°C · Low 6.5°C · 128 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 Vigo) is explained once on the Vigo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.