Climate averages 1991–2020

Shelby weather
in January.

A freezing month with moderate precipitation: the coolest and the 3rd driest of the year.

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

Average high -0.8°C Daytime mean, January

Average low -8.1°C Night-time mean, January

Precipitation 57 mm 9 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 9 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a freezing month in Shelby: daytime highs average -0.8°C and nights cool to about -8.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 57 mm of precipitation on roughly 9 days, which makes January a month with moderate precipitation (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 9 h 26 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Rochester Hills (10 km away). In January its highs average -1.0°C, about as warm as Shelby, with 59 mm of precipitation.

Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Shelby ranks joint 458th of 498 for the warmest January highs and joint 145th of 498 for the driest January (precipitation, lowest first). The mean January high of those 498 cities is 9.5°C; Shelby is 10.3°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 1.4°C to 0.6°C, and monthly precipitation falls from 57 mm to 52 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

Shelby climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Shelby, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Precipitation mm/month	Wet days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	-0.8°C-8.1°C	-8.1°C	57	9.3	9.49 h
February	0.6°C-7.7°C	-7.7°C	52	8.1	10.511 h
March	6.0°C-3.1°C	-3.1°C	59	9.8	11.912 h
April	13.0°C3.4°C	3.4°C	89	11.8	13.413 h
May	19.6°C10.2°C	10.2°C	93	12.2	14.615 h
June	24.8°C15.9°C	15.9°C	94	10.9	15.315 h
July	27.0°C18.6°C	18.6°C	79	11.0	15.015 h
August	25.9°C18.0°C	18.0°C	76	10.4	13.914 h
September	22.1°C14.3°C	14.3°C	72	9.1	12.513 h
October	15.1°C8.0°C	8.0°C	72	9.8	11.111 h
November	7.8°C1.6°C	1.6°C	65	9.0	9.810 h
December	1.9°C-3.8°C	-3.8°C	55	9.2	9.19 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 Shelby

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