Climate averages 1991–2020
Malmö weather
in January.
A cold, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Malmö: daytime highs average 2.7°C and nights cool to about -1.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 49 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 7 h 44 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Lund (16 km away). In January its highs average 2.3°C, about as warm as Malmö, with 53 mm of rain.
Among the 21 cities listed in Sweden, Malmö ranks 1st of 21 for the warmest January highs and joint 14th of 21 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 21 cities is 0.3°C; Malmö is 2.4°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 3.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 49 mm to 40 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
Malmö climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 2.7°C-1.0°C | -1.0°C | 49 | 11.3 | 7.78 h |
| February | 3.1°C-1.2°C | -1.2°C | 40 | 9.5 | 9.610 h |
| March | 6.0°C0.0°C | 0.0°C | 40 | 9.5 | 11.812 h |
| April | 10.9°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 36 | 8.7 | 14.114 h |
| May | 15.5°C7.6°C | 7.6°C | 41 | 9.5 | 16.216 h |
| June | 18.8°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 57 | 10.5 | 17.417 h |
| July | 21.2°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 58 | 10.8 | 16.917 h |
| August | 20.8°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 66 | 11.4 | 15.015 h |
| September | 16.8°C11.1°C | 11.1°C | 53 | 9.3 | 12.813 h |
| October | 11.7°C7.2°C | 7.2°C | 54 | 10.9 | 10.511 h |
| November | 7.0°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 48 | 11.1 | 8.48 h |
| December | 3.9°C0.4°C | 0.4°C | 53 | 11.3 | 7.27 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
- Lund in JanuarySweden · 16 kmHigh 2.3°C · Low -1.7°C · 53 mm rain
- Copenhagen in JanuaryDenmark · 28 kmHigh 3.0°C · Low -0.5°C · 50 mm rain
- Helsingborg in JanuarySweden · 53 kmHigh 2.5°C · Low -1.2°C · 54 mm rain
- Halmstad in JanuarySweden · 119 kmHigh 2.1°C · Low -1.7°C · 68 mm rain
- Odense in JanuaryDenmark · 166 kmHigh 3.6°C · Low -0.1°C · 47 mm rain
- Rostock in JanuaryGermany · 177 kmHigh 3.2°C · Low -0.6°C · 50 mm rain
- Växjö in JanuarySweden · 180 kmHigh 0.5°C · Low -3.3°C · 51 mm precipitation
- Århus in JanuaryDenmark · 184 kmHigh 3.4°C · Low -0.2°C · 49 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 Malmö) is explained once on the Malmö year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.