Norfolk is typically chill in January.

Maximum temperatures go down compared to the previous month from +54°F to +50°F. The minimum temperature also goes down from +39°F to +36°F.

Pack a jumper and a jacket as there will be cooler temperatures.

January is the coldest month in Norfolk, here is the comparison with other months:

January typically has worse weather conditions compared to December. It’s getting colder in January. From +54°F in the day, the average maximum temperature lowers to +50°F. Prepare for more rain. Average rainfall goes from 82 mm to 84 mm. It feels drier, as humidity decreases from 69% to 67%. Winds are stronger in comparison to December, going up from 3 m/s to 4 m/s on average. The amount of sunny days stay about the same, averaging 8 sunny days during the month.

February brings much the same weather, it remains ok.

January is one of the snowiest months in Norfolk.

Here’s how January is compared with other months in the amount of snow, total mm:

The climate in Norfolk in January has not changed that much over the last 43 years.

The average temperature was the lowest in 1996 (+67°F) and the highest in 1990 (+72°F). The driest year was 1980 with only 580 mm of rainfall, and the wettest year was 2020 with 2226 mm.

For this page, we’ve looked at the typical weather in Norfolk, based on historical hourly weather data from January 1, 1979, to December 31, 2023.

For past dates, we show actual recorded data at the location at that time. Forecasts are based on recorded weather during that day of the year, averaged over the total years for which we have records (unless stated otherwise). The daily temperature is the highest recorded temperature in the shadow during that day.