Nykøbing Falster weather in January

In January, Nykøbing Falster sees average daytime highs of 3°C and overnight lows near 1°C, with 51 mm of precipitation across 11.4 wet days and about 7.6 hours of daylight. It is the 11th-warmest and 8th-wettest month of the year here.

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 3°C through the month. The sky is clear or mostly clear about 13% of the time in January, and the air most often feels dry.

Daylight stretches from about 7 hours at the start of January to 8 h 18 min by month's end. Set against the rest of the year, January is Nykøbing Falster's 10th-clearest and 1st-windiest month. For the whole year in context, see Nykøbing Falster's year-round climate.

Daytime high
11th warmest
Overnight low
2nd coldest
Precipitation
51 mm
11.4 wet days
Daylight
7 h 30 min
8:36 AM – 4:08 PM
Cloud cover
77%
10th clearest
Wind
25 km/h
1st windiest
Solar energy
0.6 kWh/m²
Travel score
0.0
out of 10

Nykøbing Falster is Danish city.

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Temperature in January

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 3°C through the month.

A typical January day in Nykøbing Falster reaches about 3°C in the afternoon and slips back to 1°C overnight — a 3°C spread between the day's warmth and the night's chill. On most days the high lands between -1°C and 7°C. Set against its neighbours, January runs about 1°C cooler than December and on par with February.

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How January really feels in Nykøbing Falster

Once humidity and wind are folded in, January averages 0 days that feel above 32°C and 31 that feel at or below 0°C — the comfort signal a plain temperature reading hides.

Days feeling ≥ 32°C
0
heat index over the day's high
Days feeling ≤ C
31
wind chill below the day's low

The story in January is cold — wind chill drags the overnight "feels like" below the raw low.

Nykøbing Falster weather by month

How January compares with the rest of the year at a glance. January is the 11th-warmest and 8th-wettest month here — the current month is highlighted below.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan / 5111.43.27.60.0
Feb / 399.63.39.30.0
Mar / 419.42.311.50.4
Apr10° / 328.20.213.72.3
May14° / 449.4015.84.4
Jun18° / 13°6010.7016.95.7
Jul21° / 15°6411.4016.56.3
Aug21° / 16°6711.9014.76.1
Sep17° / 13°5710.6012.55.2
Oct12° / 6012010.23.1
Nov / 5111.60.78.21.1
Dec / 5512.22.37.10.1

Cloud cover in January

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

The sky is clear or mostly clear about 13% of the time in January.

Beyond those clear spells, partly cloudy skies cover about 9% of January, with mostly cloudy or overcast conditions the remaining 78%.

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Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
12278
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102278
112278
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Chance of precipitation in January

Any precipitationSnow

Nykøbing Falster gets around 51 mm of rain and snow over 11.4 wet days in January. The line is the day-by-day chance of measurable precipitation.

Day to day, the chance of measurable precipitation averages around 36% and peaks near 40% on the wettest days, and about 3 days bring snow. The odds ease toward the end of the month.

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Rain chance (%)Snow chance (%)
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6409
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11399
12389
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15369
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Humidity in January

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Most of January feels dry — the stacked bands show each day's mix of comfort levels, read off the dew point.

By dew point, January lands in the dry band about 100% of days. It rarely turns muggy — the humid and sticky bands barely register.

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Wind in January

Winds average 25 km/h in January, the windiest month of the year.

Across January, daily wind ranges from about 25 km/h on the calmest days to 25 km/h at its breeziest. It stays fairly steady from day to day.

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Wind speed (km/h)Feels
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Sunrise & sunset in January

DaylightNight

Daylight runs from about 7 hours at the start of January to 8 h 18 min by month's end. The lit band spans sunrise to sunset each day.

Days grow by about 78 minutes over January. Sunrise moves from 8:44 AM to 8:16 AM, and sunset from 3:47 PM to 4:36 PM.

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Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
17.08:443:47
27.18:443:48
37.18:443:49
47.18:443:50
57.18:433:52
67.28:433:53
77.28:423:54
87.28:423:56
97.38:413:57
107.38:413:58
117.38:404:00
127.48:394:01
137.48:394:03
147.48:384:04
157.58:374:06
167.58:364:08
177.68:354:09
187.68:344:11
197.78:334:13
207.78:324:15
217.88:304:16
227.88:294:18
237.98:284:20
247.98:274:22
258.08:254:24
268.08:244:26
278.18:224:28
288.18:214:30
298.28:194:32
308.38:184:34
318.38:164:36

Solar energy in January

Daily solar energy (kWh/m²)

Average shortwave solar energy reaching the ground each day in January, about 0.6 kWh/m².

For context, solar energy here swings from a low near 0.43 kWh/m² to a high of 6.05 kWh/m² in June across the year — January's 0.6 kWh/m² sits near the bottom.

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Planning a trip in January

Is January a good time to visit Nykøbing Falster?

Our two travel scores rate January for general sightseeing and for beach or pool weather — 0 (poor) to 10 (ideal).

0.0
Sightseeing
11th-best month of the year
0.0
Beach & pool
7th-best month of the year

January is a weaker month for outdoor sightseeing in Nykøbing Falster.

What to pack for Nykøbing Falster in January

From January's temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind — what's worth putting in the bag.

In January, Nykøbing Falster sees daytime highs around 3°C and nights near 1°C. Pack a warm layer. Worth having: a heavy coat, rain gear and a windbreaker. About 11 days see rain.

a warm layera heavy coatrain geara windbreaker

Sea temperature near Nykøbing Falster in January

The nearest coast averages about 3°C in January — the other half of the beach question. The full-year curve and swim-comfort zones are below.

The sea at the nearest coast (about 16 km away) is warmest in August at about 18°C and coldest in February near 2°C.

The water stays below 20°C all year — cool enough that most swimmers want a wetsuit.

0°5°10°15°20°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbracingcoolrefreshing
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan3Bracing
Feb2Bracing
Mar3Bracing
Apr6Bracing
May10Bracing
Jun15Bracing
Jul17Cool
Aug18Cool
Sep16Cool
Oct12Bracing
Nov9Bracing
Dec5Bracing

UV index in Nykøbing Falster in January

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV in January peaks around 0. The full-year curve, shaded by WHO exposure level, is below.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Nykøbing Falster peaks around June 18 at about 6 (high) — a little sun protection helps at midday. It bottoms out near January 1 at about 0 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 6 months of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighModerateLowJun 18UV 6Jan 1UV 0
UV index (midday)Level
Jan0Low
Feb1Low
Mar2Moderate
Apr3Moderate
May5Moderate
Jun6High
Jul5High
Aug5Moderate
Sep4Moderate
Oct2Low
Nov1Low
Dec0Low
Location & terrain

Where is Nykøbing Falster?

Nykøbing Falster sits at 54.8°N, 11.9°E, 2 m above sea level, in Denmark. The nearest listed city is Vordingborg, 27 km away.

VordingborgKlinteby FrihedNæstvedRingstedSlagelse

Topography around Nykøbing Falster

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Nykøbing Falster.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Nykøbing Falster has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 33 m around an average of 7 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 66 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 169 m.

The land around Nykøbing Falster is covered by trees (28%), grassland (20%) and cropland (20%) within 3 km, cropland (50%) and water (21%) within 16 km, and water (66%) and cropland (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
33 m
16 km
66 m
80 km
169 m
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January weather nearby: Vordingborg 27 km · Klinteby Frihed 51 km · Næstved 52 km · Ribnitz-Damgarten 70 km · Ringsted 75 km · Kröpeliner-Tor-Vorstadt 77 km · Rostock 78 km · Slagelse 78 km

Denmark travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / E / F / K
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 92% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$76,970
2025
Happiness
7.5 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
100%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
0.8
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
3.7
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
English
Very high
EF EPI 611
Religion
Evangelical Lutheran 71%other/none/unspecified 24%Muslim 4%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Nykøbing Falster (54.7691°, 11.8742°, elevation 2 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).