Climate averages 1991–2020
Cleveland weather
in January.
A cold month with moderate precipitation: the coolest and the joint 2nd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Cleveland: daytime highs average 0.7°C and nights cool to about -5.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 81 mm of precipitation on roughly 13 days, which makes January a month with moderate precipitation (the joint 2nd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 33 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Parma, United States (11 km away). In January its highs average 0.7°C, about as warm as Cleveland, with 81 mm of precipitation.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Cleveland ranks joint 423rd of 498 for the warmest January highs and joint 281st of 498 for the driest January (precipitation, lowest first). The mean January high of those 498 cities is 9.5°C; Cleveland is 8.8°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.1°C to 1.7°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 81 mm to 66 mm.
The annual picture
January in context
Monthly precipitation
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
Cleveland climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Precipitation mm/month | Wet days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 0.7°C-5.7°C | -5.7°C | 81 | 12.9 | 9.510 h |
| February | 1.7°C-5.4°C | -5.4°C | 66 | 10.4 | 10.611 h |
| March | 6.1°C-1.7°C | -1.7°C | 84 | 11.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 13.3°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 104 | 13.7 | 13.313 h |
| May | 19.7°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 97 | 13.6 | 14.514 h |
| June | 24.6°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 112 | 13.2 | 15.115 h |
| July | 26.7°C19.6°C | 19.6°C | 99 | 12.1 | 14.915 h |
| August | 25.8°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 88 | 11.6 | 13.814 h |
| September | 22.4°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 85 | 10.5 | 12.513 h |
| October | 16.0°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 87 | 11.7 | 11.111 h |
| November | 9.2°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 87 | 12.4 | 9.910 h |
| December | 3.5°C-1.8°C | -1.8°C | 81 | 12.6 | 9.29 h |
Precipitation (rain or snow, as water) is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A wet 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
- Parma, United States in JanuaryUnited States · 11 kmHigh 0.7°C · Low -6.5°C · 81 mm precipitation
- Akron in JanuaryUnited States · 49 kmHigh 1.2°C · Low -7.1°C · 80 mm precipitation
- Canton (Ohio), United States in JanuaryUnited States · 82 kmHigh 1.4°C · Low -6.7°C · 82 mm precipitation
- Detroit in JanuaryUnited States · 145 kmHigh -0.6°C · Low -7.5°C · 64 mm precipitation
- Erie in JanuaryUnited States · 151 kmHigh 0.0°C · Low -5.7°C · 112 mm precipitation
- Dearborn in JanuaryUnited States · 153 kmHigh -0.4°C · Low -7.6°C · 64 mm precipitation
- Warren in JanuaryUnited States · 155 kmHigh -0.7°C · Low -8.0°C · 58 mm precipitation
- Toledo, United States in JanuaryUnited States · 156 kmHigh 0.1°C · Low -7.3°C · 66 mm precipitation
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 Cleveland) is explained once on the Cleveland year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Parma, United States lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.