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Germany
in January.

Is January a good time?

Temperature unit

No scored region rates very good or better for weather this month.

National overnight stays are 38% of the August peak.

Regional afternoon highs
38–44°F
Very good weather
0 / 38 regions

Weather falls below the very-good band in 38 scored regions.

Find your January base

Based on 38 statistical regions. Typical conditions, not a forecast for individual towns.

Illustration of St Bartholomä and the Watzmann from Königssee
Königssee, Upper BavariaDestination view, not month-specific.

One month. 38 possibilities.

Choose your January base.

The useful differences, side by side. Open a region for its full month guide.

What matters most?

Weather 50% · Crowds 30% · Cost 20%

Trip focus

38 of 38 regions · Best weather first

Overall scores use the Balanced mix. Choose a different priority to order the regions by that mix.

Illustration of Vineyard lane near Deidesheim beneath the HaardtCountrysideMainz & the PalatinateMainz · SpeyerRead the January guide ↗ Overall6.2/10#9 month here · Balanced Weather4.2/10Fair43°F afternoons · 14 rain days Visitor seasonModerate seasonvs its own yearNear usual price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of Magdeburg Water Bridge over the ElbeCountrysideSaxony-AnhaltMagdeburg · QuedlinburgRead the January guide ↗ Overall6.2/10#9 month here · Balanced Weather4.2/10Fair41°F afternoons · 13 rain days Visitor seasonModerate seasonvs its own yearNear usual price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of Buntgarnwerke textile mills on the Weiße ElsterCityLeipzigRead the January guide ↗ Overall5.2/10#12 month here · Balanced Weather4.2/10Fair41°F afternoons · 14 rain days Visitor seasonModerate seasonvs its own yearNear usual price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of Frankfurt skyline from the Lohrberg vineyardCityFrankfurt & southern HesseFrankfurt · Darmstadt · WiesbadenRead the January guide ↗ Overall5.1/10#12 month here · Balanced Weather4.1/10Fair43°F afternoons · 15 rain days Visitor seasonSteady all yearsimilar all yearNear usual price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of Heidelberg Old Bridge, Old Town and castle from the north bankCityHeidelberg & KarlsruheHeidelberg · Baden-BadenRead the January guide ↗ Overall5.1/10#12 month here · Balanced Weather4.1/10Fair43°F afternoons · 13 rain days Visitor seasonModerate seasonvs its own yearNear usual price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of Water-level canal in Lehde, SpreewaldCountrysideBrandenburgPotsdam · SpreewaldRead the January guide ↗ Overall6.0/10#12 month here · Balanced Weather4.0/10Fair40°F afternoons · 14 rain days Visitor seasonLow seasonvs its own yearLower price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of Herrenhausen Great Garden on the central fountain axisCountrysideHanoverRead the January guide ↗ Overall6.0/10#10 month here · Balanced Weather4.0/10Fair42°F afternoons · 14 rain days Visitor seasonModerate seasonvs its own yearNear usual price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of St Bartholomä and the Watzmann from KönigsseeCountrysideMunich & Upper BavariaMunich · Garmisch-Partenkirchen · BerchtesgadenRead the January guide ↗ Overall6.0/10#11 month here · Balanced Weather4.0/10Fair41°F afternoons · 13 rain days Visitor seasonModerate seasonvs its own yearNear usual price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of East Frisian dune trail opening onto a broad North Sea beachCountrysideWeser-Ems & the North Sea coastEast Frisian Islands · OldenburgRead the January guide ↗ Overall6.0/10#12 month here · Balanced Weather4.0/10Fair43°F afternoons · 15 rain days Visitor seasonLow seasonvs its own yearLower price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of Prinzipalmarkt toward St LambertiCountrysideMünsterRead the January guide ↗ Overall5.2/10#12 month here · Balanced Weather4.0/10Fair43°F afternoons · 16 rain days Visitor seasonSteady all yearsimilar all yearNear usual price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of Grabkapelle above the Rotenberg vineyardsCountrysideStuttgartRead the January guide ↗ Overall5.2/10#12 month here · Balanced Weather4.0/10Fair42°F afternoons · 14 rain days Visitor seasonSteady all yearsimilar all yearNear usual price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of Tempelhofer Feld runway and meadow toward the Berlin skylineCityBerlinRead the January guide ↗ Overall5.0/10#12 month here · Balanced Weather4.0/10Fair40°F afternoons · 13 rain days Visitor seasonSteady all yearsimilar all yearNear usual price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of Mühle am Wall from across the Wallanlagen moatCityBremenRead the January guide ↗ Overall5.0/10#12 month here · Balanced Weather4.0/10Fair42°F afternoons · 14 rain days Visitor seasonSteady all yearsimilar all yearNear usual price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of Schrammsteine from a sandstone ledge near CarolafelsenCountrysideDresden & Saxon SwitzerlandDresdenRead the January guide ↗ Overall5.9/10#11 month here · Balanced Weather3.9/10Fair40°F afternoons · 14 rain days Visitor seasonLow seasonvs its own yearLower price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of Traditional Black Forest farmhouse in a meadow near SchauinslandMountainsFreiburg & the southern Black ForestFreiburg · KonstanzRead the January guide ↗ Overall5.9/10#11 month here · Balanced Weather3.9/10Fair42°F afternoons · 13 rain days Visitor seasonLow seasonvs its own yearLower price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of Lusen summit Blockmeer in the Bavarian ForestCountrysideLower BavariaPassau · Bavarian ForestRead the January guide ↗ Overall5.9/10#12 month here · Balanced Weather3.9/10Fair40°F afternoons · 13 rain days Visitor seasonModerate seasonvs its own yearNear usual price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of Totengrund bowl in the Lüneburg HeathCountrysideLüneburgLüneburg HeathRead the January guide ↗ Overall5.9/10#12 month here · Balanced Weather3.9/10Fair41°F afternoons · 13 rain days Visitor seasonLow seasonvs its own yearLower price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of Middle Franconian medieval old-town streetscape in RothenburgCountrysideNuremberg & Middle FranconiaNuremberg · Rothenburg ob der TauberRead the January guide ↗ Overall5.9/10#11 month here · Balanced Weather3.9/10Fair41°F afternoons · 14 rain days Visitor seasonModerate seasonvs its own yearNear usual price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of Erfurt Cathedral Hill and the DomstufenCountrysideThuringiaWeimar · ErfurtRead the January guide ↗ Overall5.9/10#11 month here · Balanced Weather3.9/10Fair40°F afternoons · 14 rain days Visitor seasonModerate seasonvs its own yearNear usual price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of Tübingen Neckarfront with a traditional StocherkahnCountrysideTübingen & Upper SwabiaTübingen · UlmRead the January guide ↗ Overall5.9/10#12 month here · Balanced Weather3.9/10Fair41°F afternoons · 13 rain days Visitor seasonLow seasonvs its own yearNear usual price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of Lower Franconian vineyard landscape above the Main River near Würzburg and VolkachCountrysideWürzburg & Lower FranconiaWürzburgRead the January guide ↗ Overall5.9/10#11 month here · Balanced Weather3.9/10Fair41°F afternoons · 14 rain days Visitor seasonModerate seasonvs its own yearNear usual price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of Allgäu dairy pastures and Alpine foothills near FüssenCountrysideSwabia & the AllgäuNeuschwanstein · Augsburg · FüssenRead the January guide ↗ Overall5.8/10#12 month here · Balanced Weather3.9/10Fair41°F afternoons · 13 rain days Visitor seasonModerate seasonvs its own yearNear usual price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of Goetheweg boardwalk across Torfhausmoor toward the BrockenCountrysideBraunschweig & the Harz (west)Braunschweig · GoslarRead the January guide ↗ Overall5.2/10#12 month here · Balanced Weather3.9/10Fair41°F afternoons · 15 rain days Visitor seasonSteady all yearsimilar all yearNear usual price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of Cologne Cathedral and Hohenzollern Bridge from the Deutz Rhine bankCityCologne & BonnCologne · Bonn · AachenRead the January guide ↗ Overall4.9/10#12 month here · Balanced Weather3.9/10Fair43°F afternoons · 16 rain days Visitor seasonSteady all yearsimilar all yearNear usual price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of Rheinturm and MedienHafen across the yacht basinCityDüsseldorfRead the January guide ↗ Overall4.9/10#12 month here · Balanced Weather3.9/10Fair44°F afternoons · 17 rain days Visitor seasonSteady all yearsimilar all yearNear usual price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of Wasserschloss at the Speicherstadt canal junctionCityHamburgRead the January guide ↗ Overall4.9/10#12 month here · Balanced Weather3.9/10Fair41°F afternoons · 14 rain days Visitor seasonSteady all yearsimilar all yearNear usual price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of Externsteine across the Wiembecke pondCountrysideDetmold & East WestphaliaBielefeldRead the January guide ↗ Overall5.8/10#11 month here · Balanced Weather3.8/10Fair42°F afternoons · 16 rain days Visitor seasonModerate seasonvs its own yearNear usual price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe cascades and Hercules MonumentCountrysideKassel & northern HesseKasselRead the January guide ↗ Overall5.8/10#12 month here · Balanced Weather3.8/10Fair40°F afternoons · 14 rain days Visitor seasonModerate seasonvs its own yearNear usual price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of Deutsches Eck at the Rhine–Moselle confluence from EhrenbreitsteinCountrysideKoblenz & the Middle RhineRhine Valley · KoblenzRead the January guide ↗ Overall5.8/10#12 month here · Balanced Weather3.8/10Fair42°F afternoons · 15 rain days Visitor seasonLow seasonvs its own yearLower price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of Walhalla above the Danube near DonaustaufCountrysideRegensburg & the Upper PalatinateRegensburgRead the January guide ↗ Overall5.8/10#12 month here · Balanced Weather3.8/10Fair39°F afternoons · 14 rain days Visitor seasonModerate seasonvs its own yearNear usual price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of Marburg Oberstadt from the southeast hillside overlookCountrysideCentral HesseMarburg · GießenRead the January guide ↗ Overall5.7/10#12 month here · Balanced Weather3.7/10Fair41°F afternoons · 15 rain days Visitor seasonModerate seasonvs its own yearNear usual price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of Saarschleife from the Cloef viewpointCountrysideSaarlandRead the January guide ↗ Overall5.7/10#12 month here · Balanced Weather3.7/10Fair42°F afternoons · 14 rain days Visitor seasonModerate seasonvs its own yearNear usual price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of Steep Moselle vineyards above a river villageCountrysideTrier & the MoselleTrier · Moselle ValleyRead the January guide ↗ Overall5.6/10#12 month here · Balanced Weather3.6/10Fair41°F afternoons · 15 rain days Visitor seasonLow seasonvs its own yearLower price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of Schloss Augustusburg above the Zschopau valleyCountrysideChemnitz & the Ore MountainsChemnitzRead the January guide ↗ Overall5.0/10#12 month here · Balanced Weather3.6/10Fair38°F afternoons · 15 rain days Visitor seasonSteady all yearsimilar all yearNear usual price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of Zeche Zollern II/IV from the axial forecourtCityDortmund & the SauerlandDortmundRead the January guide ↗ Overall4.6/10#12 month here · Balanced Weather3.6/10Fair42°F afternoons · 17 rain days Visitor seasonSteady all yearsimilar all yearNear usual price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of Michaelsberg vineyard overlook across Bamberg's UNESCO old townCountrysideBamberg & Upper FranconiaBamberg · BayreuthRead the January guide ↗ Overall5.5/10#12 month here · Balanced Weather3.5/10Fair39°F afternoons · 16 rain days Visitor seasonModerate seasonvs its own yearNear usual price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of Königsstuhl chalk coast on RügenBeachMecklenburg-VorpommernRügen · Usedom · RostockRead the January guide ↗ Overall3.0/10#9 month here · Balanced Weather1.0/10Poor40°F afternoons · 14 rain days Visitor seasonLow seasonvs its own yearLower price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level Illustration of Westerheversand lighthouse across the salt marshBeachSchleswig-HolsteinSylt · Lübeck · KielRead the January guide ↗ Overall3.0/10#9 month here · Balanced Weather1.0/10Poor41°F afternoons · 14 rain days Visitor seasonLow seasonvs its own yearLower price seasonhistorical estimated seasonal pattern; national price level

Cost words compare a published regional accommodation level with Germany's typical level, or describe a region's price season against its own year. The Cost score still uses Germany's price level on the Europe scale; where regional money levels are unavailable, a cheaper season does not establish which region has the cheapest rooms.

What goes into the scores?

Overall combines weather, crowds and cost. It is not a weather rating. By default, the list ranks weather first and shows Balanced Overall scores (50% weather, 30% crowds, 20% cost). Other priorities order it by your Overall mix. Missing cost is excluded and the available parts are reweighted.

Visitor season compares each region with its own year. A higher crowd score does not establish which place has fewer people in absolute terms. Regions cover whole statistical areas; open a guide for its geographic scope. Read the scoring method.

Weather across the country

January weather & packing.

Regional averages vary; check a forecast closer to your trip.

Typical afternoons
38–44°F
Typical nights
27–33°F
Rain days
13–17 days

Ranges span available regional monthly averages, not daily extremes. A dash means a measurement is unavailable or withheld; individual guides explain the gaps.

What to bring.

Afternoons around 44°F (6°C): a warm coat; nights around 33°F (1°C): a winter coat, hat and gloves. Bring rain gear: about 17 days with at least 1 mm of rain.

Weather, region by region Afternoons, nights, rain & weather
Available regional monthly averages. Very good weather means a displayed score of at least 7.0/10.
RegionAfternoonNightRain daysWeather
Mainz & the Palatinate43°F31°F14fair
Saxony-Anhalt41°F30°F13fair
Leipzig41°F30°F14fair
Frankfurt & southern Hesse43°F31°F15fair
Heidelberg & Karlsruhe43°F31°F13fair
Brandenburg40°F30°F14fair
Hanover42°F32°F14fair
Munich & Upper Bavaria41°F28°F13fair
Weser-Ems & the North Sea coast43°F32°F15fair
Münster43°F33°F16fair
Stuttgart42°F29°F14fair
Berlin40°F30°F13fair
Bremen42°F32°F14fair
Dresden & Saxon Switzerland40°F29°F14fair
Freiburg & the southern Black Forest42°F29°F13fair
Lower Bavaria40°F27°F13fair
Lüneburg41°F31°F13fair
Nuremberg & Middle Franconia41°F29°F14fair
Thuringia40°F29°F14fair
Tübingen & Upper Swabia41°F28°F13fair
Würzburg & Lower Franconia41°F30°F14fair
Swabia & the Allgäu41°F28°F13fair
Braunschweig & the Harz (west)41°F30°F15fair
Cologne & Bonn43°F32°F16fair
Düsseldorf44°F33°F17fair
Hamburg41°F31°F14fair
Detmold & East Westphalia42°F32°F16fair
Kassel & northern Hesse40°F30°F14fair
Koblenz & the Middle Rhine42°F31°F15fair
Regensburg & the Upper Palatinate39°F27°F14fair
Central Hesse41°F30°F15fair
Saarland42°F31°F14fair
Trier & the Moselle41°F30°F15fair
Chemnitz & the Ore Mountains38°F27°F15fair
Dortmund & the Sauerland42°F31°F17fair
Bamberg & Upper Franconia39°F28°F16fair
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern40°F30°F14poor
Schleswig-Holstein41°F31°F14poor

Before you go

Check the trip details.

The visitor season

Moderate season, nationally.

January records 38% of August's overnight stays. This measures overnight demand, not queues or day-trippers.

Hotel prices

About usual.

−4% on Germany's historical national hotel-price index, versus its usual month in 2024–2025. This describes a price season, not a live room quote.

The national index cannot tell you which region has the cheapest rooms.

Thinking about the coast?

Check the water, too.

Among beach-focused regions, the warmest measured seas this month are Schleswig-Holstein (40°F), Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (39°F). Sea temperature is one part of a beach trip; open a region for weather and seasonal closures.

Events & holiday dates Check the year against your trip

Holidays: 21% of people in Germany live where schools are out on a typical January 2027 day. Public holidays: 1 Jan New Year's Day. (School holidays: OpenHolidays, ODbL.)

Same country. A different chapter.

Dates still up in the air?

Germany through the year ↗

January is fixed, but the destination isn't? Find somewhere else in Europe ↗

How we know Sources, scope & limitations

Each row is a statistical region (NUTS 2); open it for the full month, the sources and what moving your dates would change. National lines are built from the regions: season is Germany's total tourist nights this month against its busiest month (Eurostat, primarily 2024–2025; earlier published years where needed); weather counts regions whose displayed Weather score is at least 7.0/10 (very good or better) rather than averaging across the country; visitors ranks overnight visitors per resident against all Europe's regions (for a region) or the other countries (for Germany) that month.

A regional accommodation level is shown only where publishable money data exists; elsewhere the cost words describe a regional season against its own year, and the score starts from the national price level. Separately, Germany's 2024 restaurants-and-hotels level is above EU average (112 where the EU average is 100). Full method.