Climate averages 1991–2020

Shreveport weather
in January.

A cool, wet month: the coolest and the joint 8th driest of the year.

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

Average high 13.4°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 4.0°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 108 mm 9 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a cool month in Shreveport: daytime highs average 13.4°C and nights cool to about 4.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 108 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes January a wet month (the joint 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 16 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Longview (93 km away). In January its highs average 13.2°C, about as warm as Shreveport, with 93 mm of rain.

Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Shreveport ranks joint 188th of 498 for the warmest January highs and joint 438th of 498 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 498 cities is 9.5°C; Shreveport is 4.0°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 2.2°C to 15.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 108 mm to 105 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

Shreveport climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Shreveport, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	13.4°C4.0°C	4.0°C	108	9.4	10.310 h
February	15.6°C5.6°C	5.6°C	105	9.2	11.011 h
March	19.8°C9.3°C	9.3°C	132	10.7	12.012 h
April	23.9°C13.3°C	13.3°C	133	9.2	13.013 h
May	28.3°C18.3°C	18.3°C	104	11.3	13.814 h
June	31.9°C22.4°C	22.4°C	95	10.3	14.214 h
July	33.8°C24.3°C	24.3°C	74	9.3	14.114 h
August	34.1°C24.2°C	24.2°C	73	8.2	13.313 h
September	30.8°C20.8°C	20.8°C	78	7.1	12.412 h
October	25.2°C14.8°C	14.8°C	108	7.0	11.411 h
November	18.7°C9.1°C	9.1°C	103	7.7	10.511 h
December	14.3°C5.2°C	5.2°C	120	9.3	10.110 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 Shreveport

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