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Major cities where the modelled January mean stays above freezing

Lisbon, Portugal has the highest january mean temperature (modelled) of the 27 cities compared: 12.91 °C (NASA POWER 20-year meteorological and solar climatology, 2001-2020).

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Large admitted cities whose NASA POWER 2001–2020 coordinate-grid January mean is above 0°C. This is a consistent modelled comparison, not a guarantee that every winter day stays above zero.

Items compared
27
Countries represented
12
Last checked
2026-07-16

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Original rankCity or placeSource and scope
1Lisbon, Portugal12.91 °C2026-07-16
Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020
2Los Angeles, United States12.04 °C2026-07-16
Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020
3Sintra, Portugal11.6 °C2026-07-16
Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020
4Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal10.52 °C2026-07-16
Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020
5Valencia, Spain8.26 °C2026-07-16
Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020
6Barcelona, Spain7.44 °C2026-07-16
Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020
7Dublin, Ireland5.84 °C2026-07-16
Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020
8Cork, Ireland5.64 °C2026-07-16
Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020
9Limerick, Ireland5.36 °C2026-07-16
Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020
10Nîmes, France4.42 °C2026-07-16
Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020
11Genova, Italy4.02 °C2026-07-16
Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020
12Varna, Bulgaria3.94 °C2026-07-16
Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020
13's-Gravenhage, Netherlands3.84 °C2026-07-16
Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020
14Rotterdam, Netherlands3.84 °C2026-07-16
Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020
15Madrid, Spain3.79 °C2026-07-16
Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020
16Amsterdam, Netherlands3.5 °C2026-07-16
Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020
17Paris, France3 °C2026-07-16
Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020
18Milano, Italy2.74 °C2026-07-16
Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020
19Charleroi, Belgium2.03 °C2026-07-16
Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020
20Odense, Denmark1.38 °C2026-07-16
Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020
21Torino, Italy1.21 °C2026-07-16
Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020
22Malmö, Sweden1.18 °C2026-07-16
Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020
23Saint-Étienne, France1.1 °C2026-07-16
Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020
24New York, United States1.06 °C2026-07-16
Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020
25Hamburg, Germany0.53 °C2026-07-16
Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020
26Göteborg, Sweden0.48 °C2026-07-16
Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020
27Plovdiv, Bulgaria0.46 °C2026-07-16
Source Scope: city coordinate grid · Period: 2001-2020

What the numbers say

  • Lisbon, Portugal leads at 12.91 °C.
  • Plovdiv, Bulgaria sits at the other end with 0.46 °C.
  • The middle of this ranking is 3.84 °C, across 27 places that publish the metric.
  • The spread between first and last is 12.45 °C.

Quick answer

What does Major cities where the modelled January mean stays above freezing show?

Lisbon, Portugal has the highest january mean temperature (modelled) of the 27 cities compared: 12.91 °C (NASA POWER 20-year meteorological and solar climatology, 2001-2020).

How this list is built

Every row is a published january mean temperature (modelled) observation measured in °C, ranked highest first. The values were observed in 2001. A place appears only when it publishes this exact metric, so an absent place means missing data rather than a low value. Only published cities with at least 100,000 residents and city-level observations qualify.

  • Compare the displayed value, unit, source date and geographic grain together.
  • A city label does not change a regional observation into a city measurement.
Rows
27 places
Geographic grain
city coordinate grid
Observation period
2001-2020
Last checked
2026-07-16
With an official source link
27 of 27

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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Major cities where the modelled January mean stays above freezing [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 62c244ffd2fe27eb8adc2cce067b52ce]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/reports/major-cities-january-mean-above-freezing/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
BibTeX citation
@misc{immigrationdb_immigrationdb_major-cities-where-the-modelled-january-mean-stays-above-freezing_32cfab86fafe,
  author = {ImmigrationDB},
  title = {Major cities where the modelled January mean stays above freezing},
  publisher = {ImmigrationDB},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-10-16},
  version = {62c244ffd2fe27eb8adc2cce067b52ce},
  url = {https://immigrationdb.com/reports/major-cities-january-mean-above-freezing/},
  note = {Retrieved 2026-10-16. ImmigrationDB compilation. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/},
}
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Sources

  1. NASA POWER 20-year meteorological and solar climatologyNASA POWER · Checked 2026-07-16