Climate · Sylt

Sylt in January

Cold and wet, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

January in Sylt is cold, around 38°F through the day and night. Rain falls on about four days a week, less often as the month goes on, and the days lengthen by 53 minutes from the first week to the last.January in Sylt is cold, around 3°C through the day and night. Rain falls on about four days a week, less often as the month goes on, and the days lengthen by 53 minutes from the first week to the last.

Typical
38°F3°Caverage
Wet days
4a week · 55% of days
Daylight
7h 52mon average

Is January a good time to visit Sylt?


January sits outside Sylt's best months, which run from July to August. Expect cold days and rain on about four days a week.

How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 70°F to 80°F, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 21°C to 27°C, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.

How January sits in the year

week by week

Temperature

Around 38°F in January, against 37°F to 64°F through the year.Around 3°C in January, against 3°C to 18°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

55% of days in January, against 32% to 60% through the year.

Cloud cover

70% cover in January, against 49% to 71% through the year.

Daylight

7h 52m in January, against 7h 17m to 17h 15m through the year.

Week by week, lightly smoothed, with January shaded. The olive line marks the best months. Hover or tap a week for its figures.

Either side


  1. December41°5°4 wet days a weekRain on about four days a week.
  2. January38°3°4 wet days a weekRain on about four days a week.
  3. February37°3°3 wet days a weekRain on about three days a week.

Where Sylt sits, in January

Europe/Berlin

this place
typical high in January 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-January
8:43 AMsets 4:28 PM
Above the sea
10 mlow-lying
Latitude
54.9°Nnorthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Hamburg187 km south-east

The land around Sylt, shaded by its typical high in January, the planning map's own layer. Hover the map for the figure at that spot; tap it on a phone. Clock times are local, for the 15th.

Elsewhere in Germany in January

typical · wet days

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024). Sylt sits on a grid square that is mostly sea, where the data hold only a daily average, so the page shows one typical temperature, not a high and a low. Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not. Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.

Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not.

Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.