Climate averages 1991–2020
Nashville weather
in January.
A cold, 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 cold month in Nashville: daytime highs average 7.8°C and nights cool to about -0.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 104 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 10 h 00 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Franklin (28 km away). In January its highs average 8.3°C, about as warm as Nashville, with 105 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Nashville ranks joint 280th of 498 for the warmest January highs and 431st of 498 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 498 cities is 9.5°C; Nashville is 1.6°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.5°C to 10.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 104 mm to 116 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
Nashville climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 7.8°C-0.6°C | -0.6°C | 104 | 10.4 | 10.010 h |
| February | 10.3°C0.8°C | 0.8°C | 116 | 10.4 | 10.811 h |
| March | 15.1°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 126 | 11.5 | 11.912 h |
| April | 20.4°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 128 | 11.0 | 13.113 h |
| May | 25.0°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 123 | 12.5 | 14.114 h |
| June | 29.4°C19.6°C | 19.6°C | 99 | 12.5 | 14.615 h |
| July | 31.2°C21.8°C | 21.8°C | 106 | 12.8 | 14.414 h |
| August | 30.9°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 84 | 10.5 | 13.514 h |
| September | 27.6°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 83 | 8.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 21.5°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 91 | 8.0 | 11.311 h |
| November | 14.5°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 99 | 9.1 | 10.310 h |
| December | 9.5°C1.4°C | 1.4°C | 124 | 10.7 | 9.810 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
- Franklin in JanuaryUnited States · 28 kmHigh 8.3°C · Low 0.0°C · 105 mm rain
- Murfreesboro in JanuaryUnited States · 50 kmHigh 8.4°C · Low 0.1°C · 114 mm rain
- Clarksville in JanuaryUnited States · 65 kmHigh 7.5°C · Low -0.7°C · 100 mm rain
- Huntsville in JanuaryUnited States · 161 kmHigh 9.7°C · Low 1.1°C · 129 mm rain
- Chattanooga in JanuaryUnited States · 182 kmHigh 9.6°C · Low 0.6°C · 119 mm rain
- East Chattanooga in JanuaryUnited States · 185 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low 0.4°C · 119 mm rain
- Evansville in JanuaryUnited States · 212 kmHigh 5.2°C · Low -2.5°C · 94 mm rain
- Louisville in JanuaryUnited States · 249 kmHigh 5.2°C · Low -2.9°C · 91 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 Nashville) is explained once on the Nashville year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.