Climate averages 1991–2020
The Hague 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 The Hague: daytime highs average 6.1°C and nights cool to about 2.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 64 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 19 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Delft (9 km away). In January its highs average 6.0°C, about as warm as The Hague, with 64 mm of rain.
Among the 44 cities listed in the Netherlands, The Hague ranks joint 1st of 44 for the warmest January highs and joint 15th of 44 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 44 cities is 5.6°C; The Hague is 0.4°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 6.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 64 mm to 52 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
The Hague climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 6.1°C2.5°C | 2.5°C | 64 | 12.4 | 8.38 h |
| February | 6.5°C2.3°C | 2.3°C | 52 | 11.4 | 9.910 h |
| March | 9.0°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 51 | 11.3 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.4°C6.1°C | 6.1°C | 44 | 10.2 | 13.914 h |
| May | 15.7°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 57 | 11.2 | 15.716 h |
| June | 18.3°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 58 | 11.1 | 16.717 h |
| July | 20.5°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 73 | 12.8 | 16.216 h |
| August | 20.7°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 79 | 13.0 | 14.715 h |
| September | 18.1°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 74 | 12.2 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.2°C9.8°C | 9.8°C | 77 | 13.4 | 10.711 h |
| November | 9.9°C6.3°C | 6.3°C | 72 | 14.0 | 8.99 h |
| December | 6.8°C3.5°C | 3.5°C | 75 | 14.1 | 7.88 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
- Delft in JanuaryThe Netherlands · 9 kmHigh 6.0°C · Low 2.1°C · 64 mm rain
- Zoetermeer in JanuaryThe Netherlands · 13 kmHigh 6.0°C · Low 2.0°C · 62 mm rain
- Leiden in JanuaryThe Netherlands · 16 kmHigh 6.0°C · Low 2.3°C · 72 mm rain
- Vlaardingen in JanuaryThe Netherlands · 18 kmHigh 6.1°C · Low 2.0°C · 64 mm rain
- Schiedam in JanuaryThe Netherlands · 19 kmHigh 6.0°C · Low 1.9°C · 62 mm rain
- Rotterdam in JanuaryThe Netherlands · 21 kmHigh 5.9°C · Low 1.6°C · 62 mm rain
- Alphen aan den Rijn in JanuaryThe Netherlands · 25 kmHigh 5.9°C · Low 1.7°C · 69 mm rain
- Spijkenisse in JanuaryThe Netherlands · 26 kmHigh 6.1°C · Low 1.8°C · 61 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 The Hague) is explained once on the The Hague year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Delft and Vlaardingen lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.