Climate averages 1991–2020

East Kilbride weather
in January.

A cold, wet month: the coolest and the wettest of the year.

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

Average high 5.2°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 0.8°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 116 mm 17 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 8 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cold month in East Kilbride: daytime highs average 5.2°C and nights cool to about 0.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 116 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes January a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 7 h 43 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Glasgow (12 km away). In January its highs average 5.8°C, 0.6°C warmer than East Kilbride, with 116 mm of rain.

Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, East Kilbride ranks joint 142nd of 143 for the warmest January highs and joint 140th of 143 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 143 cities is 6.9°C; East Kilbride is 1.7°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.6°C to 5.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 116 mm to 98 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

East Kilbride climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for East Kilbride, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	5.2°C0.8°C	0.8°C	116	16.7	7.78 h
February	5.8°C0.7°C	0.7°C	98	14.5	9.610 h
March	7.5°C1.5°C	1.5°C	87	14.5	11.812 h
April	10.1°C3.0°C	3.0°C	74	13.8	14.114 h
May	13.2°C5.7°C	5.7°C	79	13.6	16.216 h
June	15.4°C8.7°C	8.7°C	86	14.2	17.417 h
July	16.9°C10.4°C	10.4°C	92	15.5	16.917 h
August	16.6°C10.2°C	10.2°C	101	15.7	15.115 h
September	14.4°C8.4°C	8.4°C	83	13.3	12.813 h
October	11.1°C5.7°C	5.7°C	110	15.5	10.510 h
November	7.6°C2.9°C	2.9°C	105	15.9	8.48 h
December	5.3°C0.7°C	0.7°C	115	15.8	7.17 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 East Kilbride

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

Glasgow lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.