Climate averages 1991–2020
Virginia Beach weather
in January.
A cool, 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 cool month in Virginia Beach: daytime highs average 8.4°C and nights cool to about 2.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 96 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 57 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Norfolk (27 km away). In January its highs average 9.2°C, 0.8°C warmer than Virginia Beach, with 87 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Virginia Beach ranks joint 268th of 498 for the warmest January highs and joint 409th of 498 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 498 cities is 9.5°C; Virginia Beach is 1.0°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.0°C to 9.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 96 mm to 84 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
Virginia Beach climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 8.4°C2.4°C | 2.4°C | 96 | 9.6 | 9.910 h |
| February | 9.4°C2.8°C | 2.8°C | 84 | 9.7 | 10.811 h |
| March | 12.5°C5.7°C | 5.7°C | 101 | 10.6 | 11.912 h |
| April | 17.6°C10.7°C | 10.7°C | 84 | 9.3 | 13.113 h |
| May | 21.9°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 89 | 10.2 | 14.114 h |
| June | 26.2°C20.8°C | 20.8°C | 88 | 10.4 | 14.615 h |
| July | 28.7°C23.4°C | 23.4°C | 117 | 13.4 | 14.414 h |
| August | 27.8°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 109 | 12.4 | 13.614 h |
| September | 25.0°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 114 | 10.7 | 12.512 h |
| October | 20.2°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 96 | 8.0 | 11.311 h |
| November | 14.7°C9.2°C | 9.2°C | 94 | 8.5 | 10.210 h |
| December | 10.8°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 96 | 9.6 | 9.710 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
- Norfolk in JanuaryUnited States · 27 kmHigh 9.2°C · Low 1.0°C · 87 mm rain
- Portsmouth Heights in JanuaryUnited States · 35 kmHigh 9.3°C · Low 0.8°C · 87 mm rain
- East Hampton in JanuaryUnited States · 38 kmHigh 8.6°C · Low 1.2°C · 91 mm rain
- Newport News in JanuaryUnited States · 43 kmHigh 9.1°C · Low 0.9°C · 87 mm rain
- Suffolk in JanuaryUnited States · 56 kmHigh 9.5°C · Low 1.1°C · 88 mm rain
- Richmond in JanuaryUnited States · 153 kmHigh 7.9°C · Low -0.8°C · 85 mm rain
- Greenville in JanuaryUnited States · 186 kmHigh 10.9°C · Low 1.9°C · 94 mm rain
- Alexandria, United States in JanuaryUnited States · 236 kmHigh 6.1°C · Low -1.9°C · 77 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 Virginia Beach) is explained once on the Virginia Beach year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.