Climate averages 1991–2020
South Shields weather
in January.
A cold, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in South Shields: daytime highs average 6.7°C and nights cool to about 2.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 53 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 7 h 51 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Sunderland (11 km away). In January its highs average 6.5°C, about as warm as South Shields, with 53 mm of rain.
Among the 143 cities listed in the United Kingdom, South Shields ranks joint 86th of 143 for the warmest January highs and joint 21st of 143 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 143 cities is 6.9°C; South Shields is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.5°C to 7.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 53 mm to 46 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
South Shields 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°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 53 | 12.2 | 7.88 h |
| February | 7.2°C2.6°C | 2.6°C | 46 | 11.0 | 9.610 h |
| March | 8.9°C3.3°C | 3.3°C | 43 | 10.6 | 11.812 h |
| April | 11.0°C4.9°C | 4.9°C | 51 | 11.0 | 14.114 h |
| May | 13.7°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 48 | 11.3 | 16.116 h |
| June | 16.4°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 60 | 11.5 | 17.317 h |
| July | 18.8°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 61 | 12.0 | 16.817 h |
| August | 18.6°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 68 | 12.3 | 15.015 h |
| September | 16.3°C10.6°C | 10.6°C | 52 | 9.7 | 12.813 h |
| October | 12.9°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 58 | 11.8 | 10.511 h |
| November | 9.3°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 62 | 12.5 | 8.58 h |
| December | 7.0°C3.1°C | 3.1°C | 59 | 12.4 | 7.37 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
- Sunderland in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 11 kmHigh 6.5°C · Low 2.2°C · 53 mm rain
- Newcastle upon Tyne in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 12 kmHigh 6.2°C · Low 2.1°C · 53 mm rain
- Hartlepool in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 38 kmHigh 6.6°C · Low 2.7°C · 58 mm rain
- Stockton-on-Tees in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 48 kmHigh 6.6°C · Low 2.4°C · 58 mm rain
- Middlesbrough in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 49 kmHigh 6.6°C · Low 2.6°C · 58 mm rain
- Darlington in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 53 kmHigh 6.0°C · Low 1.5°C · 55 mm rain
- Carlisle in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 97 kmHigh 5.9°C · Low 1.4°C · 95 mm rain
- Harrogate in JanuaryUnited Kingdom · 112 kmHigh 5.8°C · Low 1.2°C · 62 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 South Shields) is explained once on the South Shields year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Newcastle upon Tyne and Sunderland lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.