Climate averages 1991–2020
Providence weather
in January.
A cold, wet month: the coolest and the joint 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cold month in Providence: daytime highs average 2.7°C and nights cool to about -5.6°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 joint 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 31 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Pawtucket (7 km away). In January its highs average 2.6°C, about as warm as Providence, with 87 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Providence ranks joint 375th 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; Providence is 6.8°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.3°C to 3.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 91 mm to 79 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
Providence climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 2.7°C-5.6°C | -5.6°C | 91 | 10.0 | 9.510 h |
| February | 3.9°C-4.9°C | -4.9°C | 79 | 8.7 | 10.611 h |
| March | 7.8°C-1.2°C | -1.2°C | 111 | 10.7 | 11.912 h |
| April | 13.9°C4.5°C | 4.5°C | 96 | 10.8 | 13.313 h |
| May | 19.4°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 79 | 10.8 | 14.515 h |
| June | 24.6°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 89 | 10.0 | 15.215 h |
| July | 28.0°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 82 | 10.6 | 14.915 h |
| August | 27.0°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 98 | 10.3 | 13.914 h |
| September | 22.9°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 91 | 8.3 | 12.513 h |
| October | 16.7°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 103 | 9.3 | 11.111 h |
| November | 10.7°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 90 | 8.8 | 9.910 h |
| December | 5.5°C-1.9°C | -1.9°C | 109 | 10.4 | 9.29 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
- Pawtucket in JanuaryUnited States · 7 kmHigh 2.6°C · Low -5.7°C · 87 mm rain
- Warwick in JanuaryUnited States · 14 kmHigh 2.7°C · Low -4.8°C · 91 mm rain
- Fall River in JanuaryUnited States · 25 kmHigh 2.8°C · Low -4.4°C · 92 mm rain
- Brockton in JanuaryUnited States · 44 kmHigh 2.2°C · Low -5.4°C · 92 mm rain
- New Bedford in JanuaryUnited States · 45 kmHigh 2.9°C · Low -3.4°C · 94 mm rain
- Worcester, United States in JanuaryUnited States · 58 kmHigh 0.7°C · Low -7.6°C · 85 mm precipitation
- Quincy in JanuaryUnited States · 59 kmHigh 2.0°C · Low -5.4°C · 94 mm rain
- Newton in JanuaryUnited States · 59 kmHigh 1.7°C · Low -6.6°C · 87 mm precipitation
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 Providence) is explained once on the Providence year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Warwick lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.