Climate averages 1991–2020

Fort Wayne weather
in January.

A cold month with moderate precipitation: the coolest and the 4th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 0.3°C Daytime mean, January

Average low -7.4°C Night-time mean, January

Precipitation 69 mm 10 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cold month in Fort Wayne: daytime highs average 0.3°C and nights cool to about -7.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 69 mm of precipitation on roughly 10 days, which makes January a month with moderate precipitation (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 35 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Muncie (106 km away). In January its highs average 1.2°C, 0.9°C warmer than Fort Wayne, with 77 mm of precipitation.

Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Fort Wayne ranks 430th of 498 for the warmest January highs and joint 216th of 498 for the driest January (precipitation, lowest first). The mean January high of those 498 cities is 9.5°C; Fort Wayne is 9.2°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 2.3°C to 2.5°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 69 mm to 58 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly precipitation

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Fort Wayne climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Fort Wayne, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Precipitation mm/month	Wet days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	0.3°C-7.4°C	-7.4°C	69	10.1	9.610 h
February	2.5°C-6.3°C	-6.3°C	58	8.4	10.611 h
March	8.4°C-1.6°C	-1.6°C	80	10.8	11.912 h
April	15.2°C4.4°C	4.4°C	101	12.4	13.313 h
May	21.0°C10.8°C	10.8°C	103	13.2	14.514 h
June	25.8°C16.2°C	16.2°C	106	12.1	15.115 h
July	27.8°C18.4°C	18.4°C	91	11.2	14.815 h
August	26.9°C17.7°C	17.7°C	88	10.1	13.814 h
September	23.4°C13.9°C	13.9°C	67	8.5	12.513 h
October	16.7°C7.8°C	7.8°C	74	9.4	11.111 h
November	9.3°C1.5°C	1.5°C	77	9.3	9.910 h
December	2.9°C-3.9°C	-3.9°C	64	9.7	9.39 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

Distance from Fort Wayne

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Fort Wayne) is explained once on the Fort Wayne year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.