January Sunshine Averages for Austria

The tables below give January averages for the amount of sunshine received at cities and towns throughout Austria.

Each place has three measures of sunshine. The number for % Sun is the usual percentage of daylight hours when the sun shines. Hours gives the total hours of sunshine this month normally has.

You can jump to a separate table for each section of the country: Western Austria that includes the regions of Tyrol (Tirol) and Vorarlberg, Southern and Central Austria which covers Carinthia (Kärnten), Salzburg and Styria (Steiermark) and Northern and Eastern Austria which takes in Burgenland, Lower Austria (Niederösterreich), Upper Austria (Oberösterreich) plus Vienna (Wien).

Days data are for the typical number of days in January that are mainly sunny. That's when cloud covered the sun for no more than 20 percent of the day.

The month's hours and percentage of sun for most places are averages of weather data collected during 1981 to 2010, while the rest use 1971 to 2000 averages. The number of sunny days is based on measurements made from 1971 to 2000.

Western Austria

Total January sunshine
% Sun	Place	Hours	Days
30	Bregenz	58	1
50	Innsbruck	100	5
51	Lienz	94	8
–	Mayrhofen	2	8
51	Nauders	90	8
57	Obergurgl	44	8
–	Reutte	106	6

Southern and Central Austria

Average amount of sun in January
% Sun	Place	Hours	Days
–	Bad Gastein	52	8
39	Graz	102	3
36	Klagenfurt	90	4
52	Saalbach-Hinterglemm	85	8
27	Salzburg	67	3
45	Schladming	82	6
50	Schmittenhöhe	131	5
51	Sonnblick Mountain	141	6
33	Villach	84	4
44	Zell am See	75	5

Northern and Eastern Austria

Average January sun
% Sun	Place	Hours	Days
49	Bad Aussee	74	–
26	Eisenstadt	73	2
28	Gmunden	48	2
43	Krippenstein	114	7
20	Linz	46	2
28	Neusiedl am See	69	3
25	Sankt Pölten	59	2
38	St. Wolfgang	83	3
26	Vienna	70	2

January Sunshine Averages for Austria

Western Austria

Southern and Central Austria

Northern and Eastern Austria

References

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