Climate averages 1991–2020

Lawton weather
in January.

A cool, fairly dry month: the coolest and the driest of the year.

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

Average high 10.8°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 0.2°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 35 mm 5 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cool month in Lawton: daytime highs average 10.8°C and nights cool to about 0.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 35 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 07 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Wichita Falls (78 km away). In January its highs average 12.5°C, 1.7°C warmer than Lawton, with 37 mm of rain.

Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Lawton ranks joint 234th of 498 for the warmest January highs and joint 69th of 498 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 498 cities is 9.5°C; Lawton is 1.4°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 2.7°C to 13.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 35 mm to 43 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

Lawton climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Lawton, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	10.8°C0.2°C	0.2°C	35	4.5	10.110 h
February	13.5°C2.1°C	2.1°C	43	5.6	10.911 h
March	18.3°C6.9°C	6.9°C	71	7.0	11.912 h
April	23.1°C11.5°C	11.5°C	92	7.3	13.013 h
May	27.3°C16.9°C	16.9°C	113	10.6	14.014 h
June	31.8°C21.9°C	21.9°C	79	8.3	14.414 h
July	34.6°C24.5°C	24.5°C	42	5.3	14.214 h
August	34.2°C24.2°C	24.2°C	43	5.3	13.513 h
September	29.7°C19.7°C	19.7°C	65	6.6	12.412 h
October	23.5°C13.2°C	13.2°C	79	6.6	11.311 h
November	16.6°C6.6°C	6.6°C	50	5.2	10.410 h
December	11.3°C1.3°C	1.3°C	47	4.8	9.910 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 Lawton

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