January 2016 Weather Facts

In January we saw a return to more typical southern Ontario winter weather. Residents of Kitchener-Waterloo experienced temperatures below 0 °C 83.2% of the time.

-5.56°C
Average daily temperature for January 2016. A decrease of 8.54°C from December 2015.
-23.45°C
Coldest temperature of the month recorded on January 19, 2016 at 8:15 am.
5.81°C
Warmest temperature of the month recorded on January 9, 2016 at 1:30 pm.
78.0mm
Highest snow depth recorded at Weather Station 3 on January 6, 2016.
48.2%
Lowest relative humidity measurement recorded with the average relative humidity reaching 84.4%.
14.14W/M2
The lowest daily solar radiation measurement averaged across Kitchener-Waterloo on January 9, 2016, the cloudiest day of the month. On January 6 solar radiation reached a peak of 114.09 W/m2.