Climate averages 1991–2020

Aberdeen weather
in January.

A cold, moderately wet month: one of the coolest and the 9th driest of the year.

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

Average high 6.3°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 3.4°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 70 mm 14 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 7 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cold month in Aberdeen: daytime highs average 6.3°C and nights cool to about 3.4°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the coolest months of the year.

Expect about 70 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 7 h 27 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Dundee, United Kingdom (92 km away). In January its highs average 5.3°C, 1.0°C cooler than Aberdeen, with 78 mm of rain.

Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Aberdeen ranks joint 120th of 143 for the warmest January highs and 100th of 143 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 143 cities is 6.9°C; Aberdeen is 0.6°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs stay level at 6.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 70 mm to 56 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

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

Every month, side by side

Aberdeen climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Aberdeen, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	6.3°C3.4°C	3.4°C	70	14.1	7.47 h
February	6.3°C3.1°C	3.1°C	56	11.9	9.49 h
March	7.4°C3.7°C	3.7°C	55	12.5	11.812 h
April	8.9°C5.1°C	5.1°C	52	11.4	14.214 h
May	11.1°C7.1°C	7.1°C	48	10.5	16.516 h
June	13.6°C9.8°C	9.8°C	60	11.2	17.818 h
July	15.6°C11.9°C	11.9°C	59	11.8	17.217 h
August	15.8°C12.1°C	12.1°C	65	12.3	15.215 h
September	14.3°C10.8°C	10.8°C	66	12.1	12.913 h
October	11.6°C8.5°C	8.5°C	98	15.7	10.410 h
November	8.8°C5.9°C	5.9°C	92	15.4	8.18 h
December	6.8°C3.9°C	3.9°C	74	14.2	6.87 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

Distance from Aberdeen

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