Typical January weather
Savannah
Georgia · January
61° days
40° nights
about 6 rainy days · 10½ hours of daylight · ocean 53°
What to pack
- Sweater
What January feels like
This is oyster-roast season in the Lowcountry, the kind where somebody upends a burlap sack onto a steel table and everyone stands around with a glove and a shucking knife. Frost turns up on windshields more mornings than visitors expect, and the camellias in Forsyth bloom straight through it.
Expect about 6 days with real rain — enough to notice, not enough to plan around. The air runs dry — whatever the thermometer says, it wears easy. about 9 nights dip below freezing.
Can you swim?
The ocean runs about 53° — frigid — locals in wetsuits only.
The numbers
| Typical high | 61° |
|---|---|
| Typical low | 40° |
| Days with real rain | 6 |
| Total rain | 3.3 in |
| Humidity | dry air |
| Water temperature | 53° |
| Sunrise / sunset (mid-month) | 7:25 am / 5:42 pm |