Germersheim weather in January

In January, Germersheim sees average daytime highs of 4°C and overnight lows near -0°C, with 55 mm of precipitation across 11.3 wet days and about 8.5 hours of daylight. It is the 12th-warmest and 10th-wettest month of the year here.

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 4°C through the month. The sky is clear or mostly clear about 15% of the time in January, and the air most often feels dry.

Daylight stretches from about 8 h 06 min at the start of January to 9 hours by month's end. Set against the rest of the year, January is Germersheim's 10th-clearest and 1st-windiest month. For the whole year in context, see Germersheim's year-round climate.

Daytime high
12th warmest
Overnight low
-0°
1st coldest
Precipitation
55 mm
11.3 wet days
Daylight
8 h 24 min
8:23 AM – 4:48 PM
Cloud cover
74%
10th clearest
Wind
12 km/h
1st windiest
Solar energy
0.98 kWh/m²
Travel score
0.0
out of 10

Temperature in January

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 4°C through the month.

A typical January day in Germersheim reaches about 4°C in the afternoon and slips back to -0°C overnight — a 4°C spread between the day's warmth and the night's chill. On most days the high lands between -2°C and 10°C. Set against its neighbours, January runs about 1°C cooler than December and about 2°C cooler than February.

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How January really feels in Germersheim

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.

Germersheim weather by month

How January compares with the rest of the year at a glance. January is the 12th-warmest and 10th-wettest month here — the current month is highlighted below.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan / -0°5511.33.18.50.0
Feb / 4910.22.69.80.4
Mar11° / 5511.21.111.62.5
Apr15° / 46100.113.44.6
May19° / 10°6611.9015.15.8
Jun23° / 14°5711.6015.96.5
Jul25° / 16°6511.6015.66.6
Aug25° / 15°5510.4014.26.8
Sep20° / 12°569.5012.46.3
Oct14° / 59110.110.54.1
Nov / 6011.50.78.91.4
Dec / 6913.12.98.10.1

Cloud cover in January

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

The sky is clear or mostly clear about 15% of the time in January.

Beyond those clear spells, partly cloudy skies cover about 11% of January, with mostly cloudy or overcast conditions the remaining 74%.

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Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
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Chance of precipitation in January

Any precipitationSnow

Germersheim gets around 55 mm of rain and snow over 11.3 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 37% and peaks near 43% 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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24310
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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 12 km/h in January, the windiest month of the year.

Across January, daily wind ranges from about 12 km/h on the calmest days to 12 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 8 h 06 min at the start of January to 9 hours by month's end. The lit band spans sunrise to sunset each day.

Days grow by about 54 minutes over January. Sunrise moves from 8:28 AM to 8:09 AM, and sunset from 4:31 PM to 5:11 PM.

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Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
18.18:284:31
28.18:284:32
38.18:284:33
48.18:284:34
58.18:284:35
68.18:284:36
78.28:274:37
88.28:274:38
98.28:274:39
108.28:264:41
118.38:264:42
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138.38:254:44
148.48:254:46
158.48:244:47
168.48:234:48
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198.58:214:53
208.68:204:54
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228.68:194:57
238.78:184:58
248.78:175:00
258.88:165:01
268.88:155:03
278.88:145:04
288.98:125:06
298.98:115:08
309.08:105:09
319.08:095:11

Solar energy in January

Daily solar energy (kWh/m²)

Average shortwave solar energy reaching the ground each day in January, about 0.98 kWh/m².

For context, solar energy here swings from a low near 0.75 kWh/m² to a high of 5.61 kWh/m² in June across the year — January's 0.98 kWh/m² sits near the bottom.

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Planning a trip in January

Is January a good time to visit Germersheim?

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

0.0
Sightseeing
12th-best month of the year
0.0
Beach & pool
8th-best month of the year

January is a weaker month for outdoor sightseeing in Germersheim.

What to pack for Germersheim in January

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

In January, Germersheim sees daytime highs around 4°C and nights near -0°C. Pack a warm layer. Worth having: a heavy coat and rain gear. About 11 days see rain.

a warm layera heavy coatrain gear

UV index in Germersheim in January

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV in January peaks around 1. The full-year curve, shaded by WHO exposure level, is below.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Germersheim peaks around July 15 at about 7 (very high) — sunscreen and a hat are worth it in the middle of the day. It bottoms out near January 1 at about 1 (low).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — in 7 months of the year.

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UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
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Mar4Moderate
Apr4Moderate
May6High
Jun7High
Jul8Very high
Aug6High
Sep4Moderate
Oct3Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low
Location & terrain

Where is Germersheim?

Germersheim sits at 49.2°N, 8.4°E, 108 m above sea level, in Germany. The nearest listed city is Waghäusel, 11 km away.

Topography around Germersheim

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Germersheim has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 40 m around an average of 107 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 83 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,080 m.

The land around Germersheim is covered by trees (48%) and artificial surfaces (22%) within 3 km, trees (38%) and cropland (31%) within 16 km, and trees (50%) and cropland (25%) within 80 km.

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January weather nearby: Waghäusel 11 km · Speyer 13 km · Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen 14 km · Hockenheim 18 km · Landau in der Pfalz 18 km · Haßloch 18 km · Schifferstadt 19 km · Bruchsal 20 km

Germany travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / F
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 80% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$60,496
2025
Happiness
6.9 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
100%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
0.9
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
3.8
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
English
Very high
EF EPI 615
Religion
none 44%Roman Catholic 25%Protestant 23%other 5%

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 Germersheim (49.2144°, 8.3669°, elevation 108 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. 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).