Climate averages 1991–2020

Paisley 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 6.1°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 1.8°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 125 mm 18 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 8 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cold month in Paisley: daytime highs average 6.1°C and nights cool to about 1.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 125 mm of rain on roughly 18 days, which makes January a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 7 h 42 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, about as warm as Paisley, with 116 mm of rain.

Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Paisley ranks joint 127th of 143 for the warmest January highs and 142nd of 143 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 143 cities is 6.9°C; Paisley is 0.8°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.5°C to 6.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 125 mm to 104 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

Paisley climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Paisley, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	6.1°C1.8°C	1.8°C	125	17.5	7.78 h
February	6.6°C1.7°C	1.7°C	104	14.9	9.510 h
March	8.2°C2.4°C	2.4°C	92	14.9	11.812 h
April	10.8°C3.9°C	3.9°C	77	14.1	14.114 h
May	13.8°C6.6°C	6.6°C	78	13.6	16.216 h
June	16.0°C9.5°C	9.5°C	84	14.4	17.517 h
July	17.4°C11.3°C	11.3°C	92	15.7	16.917 h
August	17.2°C11.1°C	11.1°C	105	16.4	15.115 h
September	15.1°C9.4°C	9.4°C	90	14.1	12.813 h
October	11.8°C6.7°C	6.7°C	122	16.1	10.510 h
November	8.5°C3.9°C	3.9°C	117	16.9	8.48 h
December	6.2°C1.8°C	1.8°C	124	16.3	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 Paisley

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