Climate averages 1991–2020
Taipei weather
in January.
A mild, moderately wet month: the coolest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a mild month in Taipei: daytime highs average 17.7°C and nights cool to about 13.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 87 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 46 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Neihu (7 km away). In January its highs average 17.9°C, about as warm as Taipei, with 87 mm of rain.
Among the 28 cities listed in Taiwan, Taipei ranks joint 21st of 28 for the warmest January highs and joint 21st of 28 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 28 cities is 19.0°C; Taipei is 1.3°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.8°C to 18.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 87 mm to 95 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
Taipei climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 17.7°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 87 | 14.2 | 10.811 h |
| February | 18.5°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 95 | 12.0 | 11.311 h |
| March | 20.9°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 105 | 13.9 | 12.012 h |
| April | 24.2°C18.5°C | 18.5°C | 132 | 16.3 | 12.713 h |
| May | 27.2°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 200 | 19.8 | 13.313 h |
| June | 29.6°C24.7°C | 24.7°C | 241 | 20.8 | 13.714 h |
| July | 31.1°C26.0°C | 26.0°C | 226 | 19.1 | 13.514 h |
| August | 30.6°C25.9°C | 25.9°C | 302 | 20.7 | 13.013 h |
| September | 28.6°C24.5°C | 24.5°C | 258 | 16.9 | 12.312 h |
| October | 25.4°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 213 | 16.5 | 11.612 h |
| November | 22.8°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 137 | 15.5 | 10.911 h |
| December | 19.3°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 108 | 15.0 | 10.611 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
- Neihu in JanuaryTaiwan · 7 kmHigh 17.9°C · Low 14.2°C · 87 mm rain
- Banqiao in JanuaryTaiwan · 7 kmHigh 17.4°C · Low 12.4°C · 87 mm rain
- Shulin in JanuaryTaiwan · 13 kmHigh 17.3°C · Low 12.5°C · 87 mm rain
- Danshui, Taiwan in JanuaryTaiwan · 16 kmHigh 17.8°C · Low 14.3°C · 78 mm rain
- Sanxia in JanuaryTaiwan · 20 kmHigh 18.2°C · Low 12.5°C · 70 mm rain
- Keelung in JanuaryTaiwan · 23 kmHigh 18.0°C · Low 14.7°C · 178 mm rain
- Taoyuan in JanuaryTaiwan · 24 kmHigh 16.9°C · Low 12.5°C · 70 mm rain
- Bade in JanuaryTaiwan · 28 kmHigh 17.4°C · Low 12.0°C · 70 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 Taipei) is explained once on the Taipei year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Banqiao, Neihu and Shulin lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.