Climate averages 1991–2020
East Hampton weather
in January.
A cool, 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 cool month in East Hampton: daytime highs average 8.6°C and nights cool to about 1.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 91 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes January a wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 56 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Newport News (11 km away). In January its highs average 9.1°C, 0.5°C warmer than East Hampton, with 87 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, East Hampton ranks joint 264th of 498 for the warmest January highs and joint 358th of 498 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 498 cities is 9.5°C; East Hampton is 0.8°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.4°C to 10.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 91 mm to 83 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
East Hampton climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 8.6°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 91 | 9.6 | 9.910 h |
| February | 10.0°C1.9°C | 1.9°C | 83 | 9.1 | 10.811 h |
| March | 13.5°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 101 | 10.0 | 11.912 h |
| April | 19.0°C10.2°C | 10.2°C | 82 | 9.5 | 13.113 h |
| May | 23.4°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 90 | 10.0 | 14.114 h |
| June | 27.7°C20.2°C | 20.2°C | 82 | 10.6 | 14.715 h |
| July | 30.0°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 106 | 13.5 | 14.414 h |
| August | 29.0°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 100 | 11.3 | 13.614 h |
| September | 25.8°C19.6°C | 19.6°C | 110 | 10.2 | 12.512 h |
| October | 20.7°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 98 | 7.7 | 11.311 h |
| November | 15.0°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 89 | 8.6 | 10.210 h |
| December | 10.9°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 94 | 9.4 | 9.710 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
- Newport News in JanuaryUnited States · 11 kmHigh 9.1°C · Low 0.9°C · 87 mm rain
- Norfolk in JanuaryUnited States · 22 kmHigh 9.2°C · Low 1.0°C · 87 mm rain
- Portsmouth Heights in JanuaryUnited States · 24 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low 0.8°C · 87 mm rain
- Virginia Beach in JanuaryUnited States · 38 kmHigh 8.4°C · Low 2.4°C · 96 mm rain
- Suffolk in JanuaryUnited States · 41 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 1.1°C · 88 mm rain
- Richmond in JanuaryUnited States · 115 kmHigh 7.9°C · Low -0.8°C · 85 mm rain
- Greenville in JanuaryUnited States · 184 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low 1.9°C · 94 mm rain
- Alexandria, United States in JanuaryUnited States · 206 kmHigh 6.1°C · Low -1.9°C · 77 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 East Hampton) is explained once on the East Hampton year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.