Climate averages 1991–2020
Stockholm weather
in January.
A cold month with light precipitation: the coolest and the 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Stockholm: daytime highs average 0.4°C and nights cool to about -3.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 36 mm of precipitation on roughly 8 days, which makes January a month with light 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 Huddinge (11 km away). In January its highs average 0.4°C, about as warm as Stockholm, with 36 mm of precipitation.
Among the 21 cities listed in Sweden, Stockholm ranks joint 10th of 21 for the warmest January highs and joint 5th of 21 for the driest January (precipitation, lowest first). The mean January high of those 21 cities is 0.3°C; Stockholm is 0.1°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 0.6°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 36 mm to 30 mm.
The annual picture
January in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Stockholm climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 0.4°C-3.2°C | -3.2°C | 36 | 8.1 | 7.07 h |
| February | 0.6°C-3.7°C | -3.7°C | 30 | 7.7 | 9.29 h |
| March | 3.7°C-1.8°C | -1.8°C | 30 | 7.8 | 11.812 h |
| April | 8.7°C1.9°C | 1.9°C | 33 | 7.9 | 14.514 h |
| May | 13.8°C6.7°C | 6.7°C | 42 | 9.1 | 17.017 h |
| June | 18.0°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 63 | 10.8 | 18.518 h |
| July | 20.9°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 65 | 10.8 | 17.818 h |
| August | 20.1°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 67 | 11.8 | 15.516 h |
| September | 15.5°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 50 | 8.6 | 12.913 h |
| October | 9.4°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 48 | 9.4 | 10.310 h |
| November | 4.8°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 47 | 10.2 | 7.88 h |
| December | 1.7°C-1.6°C | -1.6°C | 45 | 10.2 | 6.26 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
- Huddinge in JanuarySweden · 11 kmHigh 0.4°C · Low -3.2°C · 36 mm precipitation
- Sollentuna in JanuarySweden · 13 kmHigh 0.0°C · Low -3.8°C · 35 mm precipitation
- Haninge in JanuarySweden · 18 kmHigh 0.3°C · Low -3.2°C · 39 mm precipitation
- Södertälje in JanuarySweden · 29 kmHigh 0.1°C · Low -4.0°C · 36 mm precipitation
- Uppsala in JanuarySweden · 64 kmHigh -0.4°C · Low -4.7°C · 34 mm precipitation
- Västerås in JanuarySweden · 91 kmHigh -0.3°C · Low -4.7°C · 37 mm precipitation
- Mariehamn in JanuaryAland Islands · 135 kmHigh 1.0°C · Low -1.6°C · 43 mm precipitation
- Norrköping in JanuarySweden · 136 kmHigh 0.6°C · Low -3.3°C · 35 mm precipitation
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 Stockholm) is explained once on the Stockholm year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Huddinge lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.