Climate averages 1991–2020

Burnley weather
in January.

A cold, wet month: the coolest and the joint 10th driest of the year.

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

Average high 5.9°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 1.3°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 106 mm 16 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 8 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cold month in Burnley: daytime highs average 5.9°C and nights cool to about 1.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 106 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes January a wet month (the joint 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 03 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Blackburn (17 km away). In January its highs average 6.0°C, about as warm as Burnley, with 103 mm of rain.

Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Burnley ranks joint 135th of 143 for the warmest January highs and 136th of 143 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 143 cities is 6.9°C; Burnley is 0.9°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.6°C to 6.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 106 mm to 95 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

Burnley climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Burnley, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	5.9°C1.3°C	1.3°C	106	15.9	8.08 h
February	6.5°C1.1°C	1.1°C	95	14.1	9.710 h
March	8.6°C2.0°C	2.0°C	88	13.9	11.812 h
April	11.3°C3.7°C	3.7°C	77	13.6	14.014 h
May	14.3°C6.6°C	6.6°C	82	13.6	15.916 h
June	16.8°C9.6°C	9.6°C	95	14.6	17.017 h
July	18.5°C11.5°C	11.5°C	101	16.1	16.517 h
August	18.1°C11.5°C	11.5°C	106	16.0	14.815 h
September	15.9°C9.4°C	9.4°C	89	13.1	12.813 h
October	12.4°C6.8°C	6.8°C	104	15.1	10.611 h
November	8.6°C3.8°C	3.8°C	103	15.9	8.69 h
December	6.2°C1.6°C	1.6°C	118	15.6	7.58 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 Burnley

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