Chełm weather in January

In January, Chełm sees average daytime highs of 0°C and overnight lows near -5°C, with 36 mm of precipitation across 9.6 wet days and about 8.2 hours of daylight. It is the 12th-warmest and 11th-wettest month of the year here.

Day-to-day highs hold fairly steady near 0°C through the month. The sky is clear or mostly clear about 11% of the time in January, and the air most often feels dry.

Daylight stretches from about 7 h 42 min at the start of January to 8 h 48 min by month's end. Set against the rest of the year, January is Chełm's 11th-clearest and 1st-windiest month. For the whole year in context, see Chełm's year-round climate.

Daytime high
12th warmest
Overnight low
-5°
1st coldest
Precipitation
36 mm
9.6 wet days
Daylight
8 h 06 min
7:31 AM – 3:40 PM
Cloud cover
79%
11th clearest
Wind
15 km/h
1st windiest
Solar energy
0.83 kWh/m²
Travel score
0.0
out of 10

Chełm is city with powiat rights in the Lublin Voivodeship in south-eastern Poland.

Air quality
Elevated
PM2.5 18.2 µg/m³ · 2019
Density
1,707/km²
people per km²
Founded
1237

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 0°C through the month.

A typical January day in Chełm reaches about 0°C in the afternoon and slips back to -5°C overnight — a 5°C spread between the day's warmth and the night's chill. On most days the high lands between -7°C and 6°C. Set against its neighbours, January runs about 1°C cooler than December and about 1°C cooler than February.

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How January really feels in Chełm

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
14 feel bitter (≤ -10°C)

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

Chełm weather by month

How January compares with the rest of the year at a glance. January is the 12th-warmest and 11th-wettest month here — the current month is highlighted below.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan / -5°369.66.38.20.0
Feb / -4°359.66.69.60.0
Mar / -1°4310.73.911.50.7
Apr14° / 479.71.113.53.9
May19° / 7212.7015.35.7
Jun22° / 12°7812.3016.26.2
Jul24° / 14°8613.1015.96.4
Aug24° / 13°669.9014.46.9
Sep19° / 639.5012.45.9
Oct13° / 479.50.410.43.4
Nov / 389.32.78.70.6
Dec / -3°389.45.87.80.0

Cloud cover in January

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

The sky is clear or mostly clear about 11% 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 80%.

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Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
11783
21783
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Chance of precipitation in January

Any precipitationSnow

Chełm gets around 36 mm of rain and snow over 9.6 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 31% and peaks near 34% on the wettest days, and about 6 days bring snow.

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Rain chance (%)Snow chance (%)
13419
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83318
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103118
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313223

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 15 km/h in January, the windiest month of the year.

Across January, daily wind ranges from about 15 km/h on the calmest days to 16 km/h at its breeziest. It stays fairly steady from day to day.

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Wind speed (km/h)Feels
115light breeze
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Sunrise & sunset in January

DaylightNight

Daylight runs from about 7 h 42 min at the start of January to 8 h 48 min by month's end. The lit band spans sunrise to sunset each day.

Days grow by about 66 minutes over January. Sunrise moves from 7:37 AM to 7:15 AM, and sunset from 3:21 PM to 4:04 PM.

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Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
17.77:373:21
27.87:373:22
37.87:373:23
47.87:373:24
57.87:373:26
67.87:363:27
77.97:363:28
87.97:363:29
97.97:353:30
107.97:353:31
118.07:343:33
128.07:343:34
138.07:333:35
148.17:333:37
158.17:323:38
168.17:313:40
178.27:303:41
188.27:303:43
198.37:293:44
208.37:283:46
218.37:273:47
228.47:263:49
238.47:253:50
248.57:243:52
258.57:233:54
268.67:223:55
278.67:203:57
288.77:193:59
298.77:184:00
308.87:174:02
318.87:154:04

Solar energy in January

Daily solar energy (kWh/m²)

Average shortwave solar energy reaching the ground each day in January, about 0.83 kWh/m².

For context, solar energy here swings from a low near 0.6 kWh/m² to a high of 5.58 kWh/m² in June across the year — January's 0.83 kWh/m² sits near the bottom.

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Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
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Planning a trip in January

Is January a good time to visit Chełm?

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

0.0
Sightseeing
10th-best month of the year
0.0
Beach & pool
8th-best month of the year

January is a weaker month for outdoor sightseeing in Chełm.

What to pack for Chełm in January

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

In January, Chełm sees daytime highs around 0°C and nights near -5°C. Pack a warm layer and a heavy coat. Worth having: rain gear. About 10 days see rain.

a warm layera heavy coatrain gear

UV index in Chełm 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 Chełm peaks around July 18 at about 6 (high) — sunscreen and a hat are worth it in the middle of the day. It bottoms out near December 19 at about 1 (low).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighModerateLowJul 18UV 6Dec 19UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb1Low
Mar3Moderate
Apr4Moderate
May5High
Jun6High
Jul7High
Aug6High
Sep4Moderate
Oct2Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low

Air quality in Chełm in January

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see where January falls, not just the annual average.

Air quality in Chełm is worst in July — around 24 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.2× the cleanest month (December, 11 µg/m³).

Seasonal pattern from CAMS reanalysis, scaled to Chełm's WHO annual average of 18.2 µg/m³.

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateGoodJul 1224 µg/m³Dec 1711 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan13Moderate
Feb16Moderate
Mar22Moderate
Apr21Moderate
May21Moderate
Jun23Moderate
Jul24Moderate
Aug21Moderate
Sep18Moderate
Oct14Moderate
Nov13Moderate
Dec11Good
Location & terrain

Where is Chełm?

Chełm sits at 51.1°N, 23.5°E, 177 m above sea level, in Poland. The nearest listed city is Krasnystaw, 27 km away.

ŁęcznaHrubieszówZamośćŚwidnikLublinNovovolynskVolodymyr-Volynskyi

Topography around Chełm

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Chełm has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 66 m around an average of 192 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 126 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 254 m.

The land around Chełm is covered by artificial surfaces (30%), trees (28%) and grassland (27%) within 3 km, cropland (49%) and trees (28%) within 16 km, and cropland (47%) and trees (35%) within 80 km.

3 km
66 m
16 km
126 m
80 km
254 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
January weather nearby: Krasnystaw 27 km · Łęczna 45 km · Hrubieszów 48 km · Zamość 49 km · Świdnik 55 km · Lublin 64 km · Novovolynsk 67 km · Volodymyr-Volynskyi 68 km

Poland travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 1
Exercise Normal Precautions
Power plugs
Type C / E
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 52% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$28,420
2025
Happiness
6.8 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
89%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
0.8
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
9.4
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
English
Very high
EF EPI 600
Religion
Roman Catholic 71%refused to answer 21%no religion 7%

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 Chełm (51.1431°, 23.4716°, elevation 177 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. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).