Climate averages 1991–2020

Preston weather
in January.

A cold, wet month: the coolest and the 8th driest of the year.

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

Average high 6.6°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 2.5°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 102 mm 17 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 8 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cold month in Preston: daytime highs average 6.6°C and nights cool to about 2.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 102 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes January a wet month (the 8th 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 (15 km away). In January its highs average 6.0°C, 0.6°C cooler than Preston, with 103 mm of rain.

Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Preston ranks joint 96th of 143 for the warmest January highs and joint 133rd of 143 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 143 cities is 6.9°C; Preston is 0.3°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.5°C to 7.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 102 mm to 87 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

Preston climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Preston, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	6.6°C2.5°C	2.5°C	102	16.5	8.18 h
February	7.1°C2.2°C	2.2°C	87	14.3	9.710 h
March	8.9°C3.1°C	3.1°C	81	14.0	11.812 h
April	11.5°C4.7°C	4.7°C	72	13.3	14.014 h
May	14.4°C7.6°C	7.6°C	78	13.3	15.916 h
June	16.8°C10.5°C	10.5°C	89	14.3	17.017 h
July	18.4°C12.5°C	12.5°C	98	16.0	16.517 h
August	18.2°C12.5°C	12.5°C	112	16.8	14.815 h
September	16.2°C10.6°C	10.6°C	97	13.6	12.813 h
October	12.9°C8.1°C	8.1°C	116	16.0	10.611 h
November	9.3°C5.2°C	5.2°C	116	17.1	8.69 h
December	7.0°C2.9°C	2.9°C	123	16.6	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 Preston

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