Climate averages 1991–2020
Lisburn weather
in January.
A cold, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Lisburn: daytime highs average 7.1°C and nights cool to about 3.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 77 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 7 h 56 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Belfast (11 km away). In January its highs average 7.5°C, about as warm as Lisburn, with 77 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Lisburn ranks joint 48th of 143 for the warmest January highs and joint 109th of 143 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 143 cities is 6.9°C; Lisburn is 0.3°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 7.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 77 mm to 63 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
Lisburn climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 7.1°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 77 | 14.2 | 7.98 h |
| February | 7.5°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 63 | 12.2 | 9.710 h |
| March | 9.0°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 62 | 13.4 | 11.812 h |
| April | 11.0°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 65 | 13.0 | 14.014 h |
| May | 13.8°C7.7°C | 7.7°C | 70 | 14.1 | 16.016 h |
| June | 16.2°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 75 | 13.2 | 17.217 h |
| July | 17.7°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 81 | 14.6 | 16.717 h |
| August | 17.4°C12.1°C | 12.1°C | 81 | 14.2 | 14.915 h |
| September | 15.6°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 70 | 12.5 | 12.813 h |
| October | 12.5°C8.3°C | 8.3°C | 86 | 13.5 | 10.611 h |
| November | 9.4°C5.6°C | 5.6°C | 85 | 14.0 | 8.59 h |
| December | 7.5°C3.6°C | 3.6°C | 82 | 13.5 | 7.47 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
- Belfast in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 11 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low 3.9°C · 77 mm rain
- Derry in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 97 kmHigh 7.1°C · Low 3.0°C · 87 mm rain
- Douglas in JanuaryIsle of Man · 109 kmHigh 8.1°C · Low 5.8°C · 97 mm rain
- Dublin in JanuaryIreland · 133 kmHigh 7.8°C · Low 3.5°C · 69 mm rain
- Tallaght in JanuaryIreland · 139 kmHigh 7.3°C · Low 3.0°C · 69 mm rain
- Paisley in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 178 kmHigh 6.1°C · Low 1.8°C · 125 mm rain
- East Kilbride in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 182 kmHigh 5.2°C · Low 0.8°C · 116 mm rain
- Glasgow in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 187 kmHigh 5.8°C · Low 1.4°C · 116 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 Lisburn) is explained once on the Lisburn year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Belfast lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.