Stará Ľubovňa weather in January

In January, Stará Ľubovňa sees average daytime highs of -0°C and overnight lows near -6°C, with 33 mm of precipitation across 8.5 wet days and about 8.5 hours of daylight. It is the 12th-warmest and 12th-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 18% of the time in January, and the air most often feels dry.

Daylight stretches from about 8 hours at the start of January to 9 hours by month's end. Set against the rest of the year, January is Stará Ľubovňa's 9th-clearest and 5th-windiest month. For the whole year in context, see Stará Ľubovňa's year-round climate.

Daytime high
-0°
12th warmest
Overnight low
-6°
1st coldest
Precipitation
33 mm
8.5 wet days
Daylight
8 h 24 min
7:34 AM – 3:59 PM
Cloud cover
72%
9th clearest
Wind
9 km/h
5th windiest
Solar energy
1.08 kWh/m²
Travel score
0.0
out of 10

Stará Ľubovňa is town in Slovakia.

Density
509/km²
people per km²
Founded
1292

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 Stará Ľubovňa reaches about -0°C in the afternoon and slips back to -6°C overnight — a 6°C spread between the day's warmth and the night's chill. On most days the high lands between -6°C and 5°C. Set against its neighbours, January runs on par with December and about 2°C cooler than February.

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How January really feels in Stará Ľubovňa

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
19 feel bitter (≤ -10°C)

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

Stará Ľubovňa weather by month

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

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysSnow daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan-0° / -6°338.57.68.50.0
Feb / -5°379.18.29.80.0
Mar / -2°4210.86.311.50.7
Apr12° / 6212.22.713.43.2
May17° / 9414.90.115.14.8
Jun20° / 10°9814.9015.95.5
Jul22° / 12°11715.6015.65.8
Aug22° / 11°8312.5014.26.3
Sep17° / 6610.1012.45.4
Oct12° / 569.60.910.53.1
Nov / -1°4194.18.90.5
Dec / -5°3497.480.0

Cloud cover in January

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

The sky is clear or mostly clear about 18% of the time in January.

Beyond those clear spells, partly cloudy skies cover about 12% of January, with mostly cloudy or overcast conditions the remaining 70%.

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Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
12872
22773
32674
42674
52773
62872
72872
82971
92971
103070
113169
123268
133169
143169
153367
163367
173268
183367
193367
203367
213268
223268
233268
243169
253169
263169
273070
283070
293070
303070
313070

Chance of precipitation in January

Any precipitationSnow

Stará Ľubovňa gets around 33 mm of rain and snow over 8.5 wet days in January, the driest month. The line is the day-by-day chance of measurable precipitation.

Day to day, the chance of measurable precipitation averages around 27% and peaks near 33% on the wettest days, and about 8 days bring snow.

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Rain chance (%)Snow chance (%)
13328
23228
33227
43127
53126
63026
72925
82924
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112623
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312828

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 9 km/h in January.

Across January, daily wind ranges from about 8 km/h on the calmest days to 9 km/h at its breeziest. It stays fairly steady from day to day.

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Wind speed (km/h)Feels
19calm
29calm
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49calm
59calm
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118calm
128calm
138calm
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269calm
279calm
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319calm

Sunrise & sunset in January

DaylightNight

Daylight runs from about 8 hours 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 60 minutes over January. Sunrise moves from 7:39 AM to 7:20 AM, and sunset from 3:42 PM to 4:21 PM.

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Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
18.07:393:42
28.17:393:42
38.17:393:43
48.17:393:44
58.17:393:45
68.17:393:46
78.27:393:48
88.27:383:49
98.27:383:50
108.27:383:51
118.37:373:52
128.37:373:53
138.37:363:55
148.37:363:56
158.47:353:57
168.47:343:59
178.47:344:00
188.57:334:01
198.57:324:03
208.57:314:04
218.67:314:06
228.67:304:07
238.77:294:09
248.77:284:10
258.87:274:12
268.87:264:13
278.87:254:15
288.97:234:16
298.97:224:18
309.07:214:20
319.07:204:21

Solar energy in January

Daily solar energy (kWh/m²)

Average shortwave solar energy reaching the ground each day in January, about 1.08 kWh/m².

For context, solar energy here swings from a low near 0.83 kWh/m² to a high of 5.24 kWh/m² in June across the year — January's 1.08 kWh/m² sits near the bottom.

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Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
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101.0Dim
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Planning a trip in January

Hazard calendar for Stará Ľubovňa

In seasonPeak

None of Stará Ľubovňa's seasonal hazards are active in January. The full-year calendar below shows when the rainy season, cyclone risk and dust haze do peak.

Stará Ľubovňa's rainy season runs April–October, when most of the year's rain falls.

Rainy season
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Is January a good time to visit Stará Ľubovňa?

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 Stará Ľubovňa.

What to pack for Stará Ľubovňa in January

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

In January, Stará Ľubovňa sees daytime highs around -0°C and nights near -6°C. Pack a warm layer and a heavy coat. Worth having: rain gear. About 9 days see rain.

a warm layera heavy coatrain gear

UV index in Stará Ľubovňa 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 Stará Ľubovňa peaks around July 12 at about 7 (very high) — sunscreen and a hat are worth it in the middle of the day. It bottoms out near December 22 at about 1 (low).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecLowModerateHighVery highHighModerateLowJul 12UV 7Dec 22UV 1
UV index (midday)Level
Jan1Low
Feb2Low
Mar4Moderate
Apr6High
May6High
Jun7Very high
Jul8Very high
Aug7High
Sep5Moderate
Oct2Moderate
Nov1Low
Dec1Low
Location & terrain

Where is Stará Ľubovňa?

Stará Ľubovňa sits at 49.3°N, 20.7°E, 548 m above sea level, in Slovakia. The nearest listed city is Kežmarok, 26 km away.

KežmarokLevočaNowy SączPopradSpišská Nová VesBardejovNowy TargPrešov

Topography around Stará Ľubovňa

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Stará Ľubovňa has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 320 m around an average of 587 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 922 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,429 m.

The land around Stará Ľubovňa is covered by cropland (41%) and trees (33%) within 3 km, trees (65%) within 16 km, and trees (64%) within 80 km.

3 km
320 m
16 km
922 m
80 km
2,429 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
January weather nearby: Kežmarok 26 km · Levoča 32 km · Nowy Sącz 36 km · Poprad 39 km · Spišská Nová Ves 40 km · Bardejov 43 km · Nowy Targ 51 km · Prešov 52 km

Slovakia travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 1
Exercise Normal Precautions
Power plugs
Type C / E / F
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 58% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$28,544
2025
Happiness
6.3 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
100%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
1.1
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
6.1
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
English
Very high
EF EPI 606
Religion
Roman Catholic 56%none 24%Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession 5%Greek Catholic 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 Stará Ľubovňa (49.2986°, 20.6862°, elevation 548 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).