Climate averages 1991–2020
Sheffield weather
in January.
A cold, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Sheffield: daytime highs average 6.7°C and nights cool to about 2.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 62 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 8 h 07 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Rotherham (9 km away). In January its highs average 6.8°C, about as warm as Sheffield, with 53 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, Sheffield ranks joint 86th of 143 for the warmest January highs and joint 87th of 143 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 143 cities is 6.9°C; Sheffield is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.7°C to 7.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 62 mm to 56 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
Sheffield climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 6.7°C2.1°C | 2.1°C | 62 | 12.9 | 8.18 h |
| February | 7.3°C1.9°C | 1.9°C | 56 | 11.7 | 9.810 h |
| March | 9.5°C3.0°C | 3.0°C | 57 | 12.2 | 11.812 h |
| April | 12.2°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 63 | 12.4 | 14.014 h |
| May | 15.2°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 63 | 12.2 | 15.816 h |
| June | 17.9°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 78 | 12.8 | 16.917 h |
| July | 20.0°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 75 | 13.3 | 16.516 h |
| August | 19.6°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 79 | 13.0 | 14.815 h |
| September | 17.1°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 63 | 10.4 | 12.813 h |
| October | 13.3°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 68 | 12.7 | 10.611 h |
| November | 9.4°C4.7°C | 4.7°C | 68 | 12.9 | 8.79 h |
| December | 6.9°C2.6°C | 2.6°C | 70 | 13.1 | 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
- Rotherham in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 9 kmHigh 6.8°C · Low 2.2°C · 53 mm rain
- Chesterfield in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 15 kmHigh 6.5°C · Low 1.8°C · 64 mm rain
- Barnsley in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 19 kmHigh 6.1°C · Low 1.5°C · 62 mm rain
- High Peak in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 25 kmHigh 5.2°C · Low 0.8°C · 80 mm rain
- Doncaster in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 27 kmHigh 6.8°C · Low 1.8°C · 53 mm rain
- Mansfield in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 33 kmHigh 6.3°C · Low 1.5°C · 53 mm rain
- Wakefield in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 33 kmHigh 6.5°C · Low 1.8°C · 60 mm rain
- Huddersfield in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 36 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 Sheffield) is explained once on the Sheffield year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Barnsley lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.