January Sunshine Averages for Cities in Europe

The tables below give January averages for the number of hours of sunshine at major cities throughout Europe.

The cities range from Amsterdam to Zurich and from Reykjavík to İstanbul. They are listed alphabetically and you can jump ahead to the section for Amsterdam to Kazan, Lille to Pristina and Reykjavík to Zurich.

Included in this list are Europe's national capitals plus cities with a metropolitan population of over one million people.

The month's totals are averages of historical weather data collected over a long period, in most cases 30 years.

Total January sunshine

City	Hours
Amsterdam, Netherlands	63
Andorra la Vella, Andorra	119
Athens, Greece	129
Barcelona, Spain	149
Belgrade, Serbia	72
Berlin, Germany	45
Birmingham, United Kingdom	48
Brussels, Belgium	59
Bucharest, Romania	71
Budapest, Hungary	54
Chisinau, Moldova	75
Cologne, Germany	47
Copenhagen, Denmark	46
Dublin, Ireland	59
Glasgow, United Kingdom	38
Hamburg, Germany	42
Helsinki, Finland	38
İstanbul, Turkey	71
Kazan, Russia	49

Average amount of sun in January

City	Hours
Lille, France	66
Lisbon, Portugal	144
Ljubljana, Slovenia	47
London, United Kingdom	45
Luxembourg, Luxembourg	44
Lyon, France	74
Madrid, Spain	148
Manchester, United Kingdom	53
Marseille, France	145
Milan, Italy	59
Minsk, Belarus	46
Monaco, Monaco	158
Moscow, Russia	32
Munich, Germany	61
Naples, Italy	115
Nice, France	158
Nizhny & Novgorod, Russia	39
Odessa, Ukraine	77
Oslo, Norway	40
Paris, France	62
Podgorica, Montenegro	121
Prague, Czech Republic	50
Pristina, Kosovo	71

Average January sun

City	Hours
Reykjavík, Iceland	27
Riga, Latvia	31
Rostov-on-Don, Russia	64
Rotterdam, Netherlands	63
Saint Petersburg, Russia	22
Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina	57
Skopje, Macedonia	87
Sofia, Bulgaria	74
Stockholm, Sweden	40
Tallinn, Estonia	24
Turin, Italy	112
Vaduz, Liechtenstein	70
Valletta, Malta	158
Vienna, Austria	70
Vilnius, Lithuania	36
Zagreb, Croatia	56
Zurich, Switzerland	48