Average Temperatures for Tennessee in January

Average temperatures for January at cities and towns throughout Tennessee are listed below in degrees Fahrenheit and Celsius.

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

The tables give the normals for maximum and minimum temperatures based on weather data collected from 1991 to 2020 by the US National Centers for Environmental Information.

Eastern Tennessee

Average January temperatures
High °F Low °F Place High °C Low °C
49 28 Athens 9 -2
47 26 Bristol 8 -3
51 32 Chattanooga 11 0
50 29 Cleveland 10 -1
44 26 Crossville 7 -3
47 28 Dayton 9 -2
47 27 Gatlinburg 8 -3
48 26 Greeneville 9 -4
46 27 Kingsport 8 -3
48 30 Knoxville 9 -1
46 29 Lookout Mountain 8 -2
46 29 Morristown 8 -2
46 23 Mountain City 8 -5
48 28 Mousetail Landing Park 9 -2
47 29 Oak Ridge 8 -2
45 25 Oneida 7 -4
49 27 Sevierville 9 -3

Middle Tennessee

Average daily temperatures in January
High °F Low °F Place High °C Low °C
48 28 Cheatham Lake Dam 9 -2
47 28 Clarksville 8 -2
48 27 Columbia 9 -3
47 27 Cookeville 8 -3
46 27 Dover 8 -3
44 26 Monteagle 7 -3
48 28 Murfreesboro 9 -3
49 30 Nashville 10 -1
49 29 Shelbyville 10 -2
48 29 Tullahoma 9 -2

Western Tennessee

January temperatures: daily averages
High °F Low °F Place High °C Low °C
47 29 Dyersburg 9 -2
49 27 Jackson 9 -3
46 27 Martin 8 -3
51 33 Memphis 11 1
51 30 Savannah 11 -1
Reference

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI). Climate Normals.

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