Average Precipitation for Tennessee in January

The tables below give monthly averages for rainfall plus snowfall during January at cities and towns in Tennessee.

Each place has a total for the amount of precipitation it usually receives this month. There is also a count of the number of days with wet weather, when precipitation amounts to 0.01 inches (0.25 millimetres) or more.

The precipitation totals are averages based on weather data collected from 1991 to 2020 for the US National Centers for Environmental Information.

You can jump to a separate table for each region of the state: Eastern, Middle and Western Tennessee.

Eastern Tennessee

Average monthly precipitation in January
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
12	Athens	5.6	141
13	Bristol	3.7	93
11	Chattanooga	5.0	128
13	Cleveland	5.2	132
12	Crossville	5.0	126
11	Dayton	5.2	132
15	Gatlinburg	4.8	121
12	Greeneville	3.5	89
12	Kingsport	3.9	99
12	Knoxville	4.8	121
12	Lookout Mountain	5.5	140
13	Morristown	4.4	112
9	Mountain City	3.7	95
12	Oak Ridge	5.5	140
11	Oneida	5.2	131
11	Sevierville	4.4	112

Middle Tennessee

January averages for total rainfall plus snowfall
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
9	Cheatham Lake Dam	3.8	96
12	Clarksville	4.0	102
11	Columbia	4.6	117
13	Cookeville	5.3	134
9	Dover	4.2	106
13	Monteagle	5.7	144
12	Murfreesboro	4.7	118
11	Nashville	4.0	102
12	Shelbyville	5.3	134
12	Tullahoma	5.3	135

Western Tennessee

Average amount of rain and snow in January
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
9	Dyersburg	3.8	97
11	Jackson	4.3	109
11	Martin	4.2	106
10	Memphis	4.1	105
11	Savannah	4.9	124

Average Precipitation for Tennessee in January

Eastern Tennessee

Middle Tennessee

Western Tennessee

Reference

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