Average Precipitation for Wisconsin in January

The tables below give monthly averages for rainfall plus snowfall during January at cities, communities and other locations around Wisconsin.

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 Wisconsin, Southwest Wisconsin, Northern Wisconsin and the Lake Superior Shore.

Eastern Wisconsin

Average monthly precipitation in January
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
9	Appleton	1.4	35
9	Crivitz, High Falls Flowage	1.4	35
8	Fond du Lac	1.2	31
11	Green Bay	1.4	35
10	Kenosha	1.9	49
12	Lake Geneva	1.9	48
8	Manitowoc	1.8	45
10	Marinette	1.7	43
11	Milwaukee	1.8	45
9	Oshkosh	1.3	34
10	Racine	2.0	50
11	Sheboygan	2.1	53
11	Sturgeon Bay	1.7	43
10	Washington Island	1.6	40
8	Watertown	1.4	35
10	Whitewater	1.6	40

Southwest Wisconsin

January averages for total rainfall plus snowfall
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
8	Baraboo	1.4	34
10	Beaver Dam	1.5	38
9	Beloit	1.6	41
10	La Crosse	1.3	32
11	Madison	1.5	37
9	Platteville	1.2	31
8	Prairie du Chien	1.2	31
8	Viroqua	1.2	29
7	Wisconsin Dells	1.3	34
9	Wisconsin Rapids	1.2	29

Northern Wisconsin

Average amount of rain and snow in January
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
9	Drummond	1.2	31
11	Eau Claire	1.0	26
10	Rest Lake, Manitowish Waters	1.2	31
11	Rhinelander	1.2	31
8	Rice Lake	0.9	23
6	St Croix Falls	0.6	15
10	Stevens Point	1.2	31
11	Wausau	1.2	30
8	Willow Reservoir	1.1	27

Lake Superior Shore

Precipitation totals for January
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
7	Ashland	0.6	16
18	Bayfield	1.7	43
14	Hurley	2.3	59
11	Madeline Island	1.5	38
7	Superior	0.8	21

Average Precipitation for Wisconsin in January

Eastern Wisconsin

Southwest Wisconsin

Northern Wisconsin

Lake Superior Shore

Reference

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