Climate averages 1991–2020
Rochdale weather
in January.
A cold, moderately wet month: the coolest and the joint 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Rochdale: daytime highs average 6.1°C and nights cool to about 1.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 88 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the joint 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 05 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Oldham (9 km away). In January its highs average 5.6°C, about as warm as Rochdale, with 81 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Rochdale ranks joint 127th of 143 for the warmest January highs and joint 122nd of 143 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 143 cities is 6.9°C; Rochdale is 0.8°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.6°C to 6.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 88 mm to 78 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
Rochdale climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 6.1°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 88 | 15.0 | 8.18 h |
| February | 6.7°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 78 | 13.5 | 9.810 h |
| March | 8.8°C2.1°C | 2.1°C | 74 | 13.1 | 11.812 h |
| April | 11.5°C3.8°C | 3.8°C | 66 | 12.8 | 14.014 h |
| May | 14.5°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 69 | 12.8 | 15.916 h |
| June | 16.9°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 84 | 13.9 | 17.017 h |
| July | 18.7°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 84 | 15.1 | 16.516 h |
| August | 18.3°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 89 | 15.2 | 14.815 h |
| September | 16.0°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 76 | 12.4 | 12.813 h |
| October | 12.5°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 89 | 14.5 | 10.611 h |
| November | 8.7°C4.0°C | 4.0°C | 88 | 15.3 | 8.79 h |
| December | 6.3°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 99 | 15.0 | 7.68 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
- Oldham in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 9 kmHigh 5.6°C · Low 1.1°C · 81 mm rain
- Manchester in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 16 kmHigh 6.4°C · Low 1.7°C · 88 mm rain
- Salford in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 17 kmHigh 6.4°C · Low 1.6°C · 88 mm rain
- Bolton in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 19 kmHigh 6.2°C · Low 1.7°C · 83 mm rain
- Burnley in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 21 kmHigh 5.9°C · Low 1.3°C · 106 mm rain
- Halifax, United Kingdom in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 23 kmHigh 6.0°C · Low 1.6°C · 73 mm rain
- Stockport in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 23 kmHigh 6.3°C · Low 1.7°C · 88 mm rain
- Huddersfield in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 25 kmHigh 6.4°C · Low 2.0°C · 73 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 Rochdale) is explained once on the Rochdale year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Manchester, Stockport and Salford lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.