Historical Weather for Chicago, United States

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Chicago, Illinois, United States (01-01 → 31-01)

Years 2025–2025 · Source: Meteostat

Showing 1 year series with 31 days for Chicago, Illinois, United States.

Weather Summary

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Average temperature

-5.4°C

Above long-term avg by 0.0°C

Total rainfall

60.3 mm

Across the selected period

Notable conditions

  • Heatwave days: 0
  • Frost days: 30
  • Heavy rain days: 1
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Warmer than the multi-year average

Record extremes

Record high: 8.4°C · 30 Jan 2025

Record low: -21.0°C · 21 Jan 2025

Precip & wind peaks

Rain: 29.9 mm · 31 Jan 2025

Wind: 15.8 kts · 17 Jan 2025

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2025

31 days

01 Jan → 31 Jan

Temperature

High: -15.4°C → 8.4°C

Low: -21.0°C → 0.9°C

Precipitation

Rain: 60.3 mm

Snow: 93.1 cm

Wind

11.3 kts avg · 15.8 kts peak

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Daily values for the first series (showing up to 30 rows)

DayHigh (°C)Low (°C)Rain (mm)Snow (cm)Wind (kts)
01 Jan0.8°C-3.0°C0.1 mm0.7 cm12.0 kts
02 Jan-0.3°C-4.2°C0.2 mm1.4 cm9.4 kts
03 Jan-3.3°C-7.4°C0.0 mm0.0 cm11.2 kts
04 Jan-5.1°C-10.9°C0.0 mm0.0 cm9.3 kts
05 Jan-2.3°C-9.0°C0.6 mm3.5 cm11.9 kts
06 Jan-0.9°C-4.6°C3.0 mm20.3 cm14.9 kts
07 Jan-4.1°C-8.6°C0.0 mm0.0 cm7.5 kts
08 Jan-4.1°C-10.2°C0.0 mm0.0 cm6.0 kts
09 Jan-3.8°C-11.6°C0.0 mm0.0 cm8.9 kts
10 Jan-2.0°C-6.6°C4.0 mm28.0 cm8.9 kts
11 Jan-0.9°C-6.0°C0.0 mm0.0 cm7.7 kts
12 Jan1.5°C-4.7°C2.1 mm14.0 cm12.9 kts
13 Jan-5.6°C-12.7°C0.0 mm0.0 cm11.0 kts
14 Jan-9.0°C-12.9°C1.4 mm9.8 cm12.1 kts
15 Jan-8.4°C-15.7°C0.1 mm0.7 cm11.3 kts
16 Jan2.2°C-8.0°C0.4 mm2.8 cm11.1 kts
17 Jan5.1°C-4.8°C0.0 mm0.0 cm15.8 kts
18 Jan3.7°C-6.9°C0.0 mm0.0 cm13.4 kts
19 Jan-8.1°C-16.1°C0.0 mm0.0 cm9.8 kts
20 Jan-11.7°C-18.5°C0.0 mm0.0 cm12.5 kts
21 Jan-15.4°C-21.0°C0.0 mm0.0 cm10.1 kts
22 Jan-4.9°C-18.2°C0.8 mm5.6 cm14.9 kts
23 Jan-4.2°C-12.9°C0.9 mm6.3 cm10.4 kts
24 Jan-7.1°C-16.5°C0.0 mm0.0 cm9.6 kts
25 Jan2.8°C-6.7°C0.0 mm0.0 cm11.9 kts
26 Jan-1.1°C-7.9°C0.0 mm0.0 cm8.9 kts
27 Jan4.2°C-7.3°C0.0 mm0.0 cm13.7 kts
28 Jan6.8°C-2.6°C0.0 mm0.0 cm15.0 kts
29 Jan6.4°C-0.3°C0.0 mm0.0 cm12.1 kts
30 Jan8.4°C-2.4°C16.8 mm0.0 cm10.8 kts

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