Bordeaux is typically cool in January.

Maximum temperatures go down compared to the previous month from +11°C to +10°C. The minimum temperature also goes up from +4°C to +4°C.

Pack a sweater and a jacket as there will be cooler temperatures.

January is the coldest month in Bordeaux, here is the comparison with other months:

January weather is still as ok as in December. It’s getting colder in January. From +11°C in the day, the average maximum temperature lowers to +10°C. As January arrives, the amount of rainfall goes down. On average, the rainfall volume decreases from 76 mm to 70 mm. It feels drier, as humidity decreases from 86% to 85%. The average wind speed doesn’t change much during January, staying around 2 m/s. The days becoming less sunny, going from 5 sunny days in December to 4 in January.

February brings much the same weather, it remains ok.

January is one of the snowiest months in Bordeaux.

Here’s how January is compared with other months in the amount of snow, total mm:

The climate in Bordeaux in January has not changed much over the last 43 years.

The average temperature was the lowest in 1979 (+17°C) and the highest in 2022 (+21°C). The driest year was 2005 with only 515 mm of rainfall, and the wettest year was 2020 with 1115 mm.

For this page, we’ve looked at the typical weather in Bordeaux, based on historical hourly weather data from January 1, 1979, to December 31, 2023.

For past dates, we show actual recorded data at the location at that time. Forecasts are based on recorded weather during that day of the year, averaged over the total years for which we have records (unless stated otherwise). The daily temperature is the highest recorded temperature in the shadow during that day.