Climate averages 1991–2020

Lake Charles weather
in January.

A mild, wet month: the coolest and the 11th driest of the year.

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

Average high 16.0°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 7.1°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 129 mm 10 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a mild month in Lake Charles: daytime highs average 16.0°C and nights cool to about 7.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 129 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes January a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 26 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Beaumont (87 km away). In January its highs average 16.1°C, about as warm as Lake Charles, with 119 mm of rain.

Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Lake Charles ranks joint 123rd of 498 for the warmest January highs and joint 471st of 498 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 498 cities is 9.5°C; Lake Charles is 6.5°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 2.1°C to 18.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 129 mm to 96 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

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

Lake Charles climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Lake Charles, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	16.0°C7.1°C	7.1°C	129	9.9	10.410 h
February	18.0°C9.0°C	9.0°C	96	9.5	11.111 h
March	21.3°C12.2°C	12.2°C	104	10.4	12.012 h
April	24.8°C15.7°C	15.7°C	118	9.8	12.913 h
May	28.6°C20.2°C	20.2°C	101	10.5	13.714 h
June	31.0°C23.4°C	23.4°C	133	14.8	14.114 h
July	31.8°C24.5°C	24.5°C	114	16.3	13.914 h
August	32.3°C24.4°C	24.4°C	117	15.9	13.213 h
September	30.3°C21.9°C	21.9°C	121	11.6	12.412 h
October	26.3°C16.9°C	16.9°C	95	8.3	11.511 h
November	20.8°C11.5°C	11.5°C	107	8.7	10.711 h
December	17.1°C8.2°C	8.2°C	123	9.6	10.210 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

Distance from Lake Charles

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 Lake Charles) is explained once on the Lake Charles year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.