Climate averages 1991–2020

Örebro weather
in January.

A freezing month with moderate precipitation: the coolest and the 4th driest of the year.

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

Average high -0.3°C Daytime mean, January
Average low -4.5°C Night-time mean, January
Precipitation 43 mm 9 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 7 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
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January is a freezing month in Örebro: daytime highs average -0.3°C and nights cool to about -4.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 43 mm of precipitation on roughly 9 days, which makes January a month with moderate precipitation (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 6 h 58 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Västerås (85 km away). In January its highs average -0.3°C, about as warm as Örebro, with 37 mm of precipitation.

Among the 21 cities listed in Sweden, Örebro ranks joint 16th of 21 for the warmest January highs and 12th of 21 for the driest January (precipitation, lowest first). The mean January high of those 21 cities is 0.3°C; Örebro is 0.6°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.7°C to 0.4°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 43 mm to 34 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. -10-50510152025 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly precipitation

Average total · mm
Average monthly precipitation totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 1000

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

Every month, side by side

Örebro climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Örebro, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowPrecipitation mm/monthWet days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January, selected -0.3°C-4.5°C-4.5°C439.37.07 h
February 0.4°C-4.8°C-4.8°C347.99.29 h
March 4.3°C-2.4°C-2.4°C327.711.812 h
April 10.3°C1.7°C1.7°C397.914.414 h
May 15.7°C6.8°C6.8°C5310.716.917 h
June 19.3°C11.2°C11.2°C7212.018.418 h
July 21.6°C13.9°C13.9°C7711.917.818 h
August 20.3°C13.3°C13.3°C7413.215.516 h
September 15.6°C9.4°C9.4°C559.612.913 h
October 9.1°C4.6°C4.6°C5611.010.310 h
November 4.1°C0.8°C0.8°C5210.27.88 h
December 1.0°C-2.8°C-2.8°C499.86.36 h

Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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 Örebro

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