Climate averages 1991–2020
Lausanne weather
in January.
A cold, wet month: the coolest and the joint 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Lausanne: daytime highs average 5.1°C and nights cool to about 0.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 108 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes January a wet month (the joint 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 02 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Geneva (51 km away). In January its highs average 5.3°C, about as warm as Lausanne, with 115 mm of rain.
Among the 8 cities listed in Switzerland, Lausanne ranks 3rd of 8 for the warmest January highs and 6th of 8 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 8 cities is 4.5°C; Lausanne is 0.5°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.0°C to 6.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 108 mm to 97 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
Lausanne climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 5.1°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 108 | 12.7 | 9.09 h |
| February | 6.1°C0.5°C | 0.5°C | 97 | 11.5 | 10.310 h |
| March | 9.5°C2.8°C | 2.8°C | 94 | 12.3 | 11.912 h |
| April | 13.1°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 90 | 12.3 | 13.514 h |
| May | 16.8°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 120 | 13.9 | 15.015 h |
| June | 20.5°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 106 | 12.8 | 15.816 h |
| July | 22.7°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 117 | 12.2 | 15.415 h |
| August | 22.8°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 116 | 12.4 | 14.214 h |
| September | 18.8°C13.2°C | 13.2°C | 108 | 11.7 | 12.613 h |
| October | 14.9°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 101 | 12.4 | 10.911 h |
| November | 9.3°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 116 | 13.1 | 9.59 h |
| December | 5.8°C1.6°C | 1.6°C | 125 | 13.5 | 8.79 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
- Geneva in JanuarySwitzerland · 51 kmHigh 5.3°C · Low -0.9°C · 115 mm rain
- Bern in JanuarySwitzerland · 79 kmHigh 3.8°C · Low -3.3°C · 80 mm rain
- Besançon in JanuaryFrance · 94 kmHigh 6.1°C · Low 0.1°C · 108 mm rain
- Basel in JanuarySwitzerland · 136 kmHigh 5.4°C · Low -1.7°C · 80 mm rain
- Luzern in JanuarySwitzerland · 141 kmHigh 4.6°C · Low -0.9°C · 117 mm rain
- Mulhouse in JanuaryFrance · 147 kmHigh 5.0°C · Low -1.2°C · 75 mm rain
- Dijon in JanuaryFrance · 152 kmHigh 6.1°C · Low 0.4°C · 73 mm rain
- Villeurbanne in JanuaryFrance · 159 kmHigh 6.9°C · Low 0.6°C · 76 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 Lausanne) is explained once on the Lausanne year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.