Climate averages 1991–2020
Bournemouth weather
in January.
A cool, 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.
January is a cool month in Bournemouth: daytime highs average 8.1°C and nights cool to about 4.5°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the coolest months of the year.
Expect about 71 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 31 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Poole (7 km away). In January its highs average 8.2°C, about as warm as Bournemouth, with 71 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Bournemouth ranks 3rd of 143 for the warmest January highs and joint 101st of 143 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 143 cities is 6.9°C; Bournemouth is 1.2°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs stay level at 8.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 71 mm to 54 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
Bournemouth climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 8.1°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 71 | 12.3 | 8.59 h |
| February | 8.1°C4.1°C | 4.1°C | 54 | 9.9 | 10.010 h |
| March | 9.9°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 49 | 9.6 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.4°C6.6°C | 6.6°C | 53 | 10.1 | 13.814 h |
| May | 15.5°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 51 | 9.7 | 15.515 h |
| June | 18.1°C12.3°C | 12.3°C | 51 | 9.7 | 16.416 h |
| July | 20.1°C14.3°C | 14.3°C | 47 | 9.3 | 16.016 h |
| August | 20.0°C14.6°C | 14.6°C | 63 | 9.4 | 14.515 h |
| September | 17.9°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 54 | 9.0 | 12.713 h |
| October | 14.5°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 82 | 11.9 | 10.811 h |
| November | 11.1°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 84 | 12.2 | 9.09 h |
| December | 8.7°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 78 | 11.8 | 8.18 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
- Poole in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 7 kmHigh 8.2°C · Low 4.7°C · 71 mm rain
- Southampton in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 39 kmHigh 7.8°C · Low 3.5°C · 67 mm rain
- Portsmouth in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 56 kmHigh 7.9°C · Low 3.7°C · 83 mm rain
- Bath in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 80 kmHigh 7.2°C · Low 2.3°C · 68 mm rain
- Basingstoke in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 82 kmHigh 7.1°C · Low 2.1°C · 59 mm rain
- Swindon in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 93 kmHigh 6.8°C · Low 1.9°C · 62 mm rain
- Bristol in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 96 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low 2.7°C · 67 mm rain
- Reading in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 104 kmHigh 7.2°C · Low 2.3°C · 55 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 Bournemouth) is explained once on the Bournemouth year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Poole lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.