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Places with the best weather in North America in January: ranked by comfort score

Comitán tops the list at 97 /100 in January. Ranked from 1991–2020 climate normals across 50 destinations in North America.

Top three in January: Comitán (97 /100) , Tonalá (97 /100) , Tlaquepaque (97 /100) . Between first and 50th place the comfort differs by 6.8 /100.

# Destination Country Comfort Avg high Avg low Rainfall Wet days Sunshine Sea temp
1 Comitán Mexico 97 /100 22 °C 12 °C 7 mm 1 330 h –
2 Tonalá Mexico 97 /100 23 °C 10 °C 17 mm 2 306 h –
3 Tlaquepaque Mexico 97 /100 24 °C 11 °C 17 mm 2 306 h –
4 Mixco Guatemala 96 /100 23 °C 12 °C 4 mm 1 332 h –
5 Mexicali Mexico 96 /100 21 °C 9.6 °C 9 mm 1 291 h –
6 La Paz Mexico 96 /100 24 °C 15 °C 8 mm 1 310 h 21 °C
7 Ciudad Victoria Mexico 96 /100 23 °C 12 °C 27 mm 5 277 h –
8 Guatemala City Guatemala 95 /100 24 °C 13 °C 5 mm 1 332 h –
9 Cuernavaca Mexico 95 /100 24 °C 9.5 °C 10 mm 1 320 h –
10 Torreón Mexico 95 /100 22 °C 8.6 °C 9 mm 2 290 h –
11 Hermosillo Mexico 95 /100 24 °C 9.4 °C 11 mm 2 301 h –
12 Tehuacán Mexico 95 /100 22 °C 9.8 °C 7 mm 2 325 h –
13 Uruapan Mexico 95 /100 23 °C 10.0 °C 40 mm 6 314 h –
14 León de los Aldama Mexico 94 /100 22 °C 8.3 °C 13 mm 2 308 h –
15 Morelia Mexico 94 /100 22 °C 8.7 °C 18 mm 3 313 h –
16 Jalapa Guatemala 94 /100 24 °C 13 °C 7 mm 2 323 h –
17 Monclova Mexico 94 /100 21 °C 8.4 °C 15 mm 3 267 h –
18 Oaxaca Mexico 94 /100 25 °C 11 °C 3 mm 0 330 h –
19 Jiutepec Mexico 94 /100 25 °C 11 °C 5 mm 1 322 h –
20 Cabo San Lucas Mexico 94 /100 25 °C 18 °C 8 mm 1 311 h 23 °C
21 San Miguel de Allende Mexico 94 /100 22 °C 8.2 °C 12 mm 2 304 h –
22 Salamanca Mexico 94 /100 24 °C 8.8 °C 10 mm 2 310 h –
23 Irapuato Mexico 94 /100 24 °C 8.6 °C 10 mm 2 309 h –
24 San Luis Río Colorado Mexico 94 /100 21 °C 8.5 °C 9 mm 2 292 h –
25 Santiago de Querétaro Mexico 94 /100 23 °C 8.3 °C 11 mm 2 309 h –
26 Cape Coral United States 94 /100 23 °C 14 °C 52 mm 5 285 h 20 °C
27 Celaya Mexico 94 /100 23 °C 8.0 °C 10 mm 2 310 h –
28 Nuevo Laredo Mexico 93 /100 21 °C 10 °C 25 mm 5 229 h –
29 Ciudad Benito Juárez Mexico 93 /100 21 °C 9.7 °C 28 mm 5 259 h –
30 Los Mochis Mexico 93 /100 26 °C 13 °C 13 mm 1 304 h 20 °C
31 Zamora de Hidalgo Mexico 93 /100 25 °C 9.1 °C 17 mm 2 310 h –
32 Ciudad Apodaca Mexico 93 /100 21 °C 9.5 °C 36 mm 6 266 h –
33 Reynosa Mexico 92 /100 23 °C 12 °C 28 mm 4 234 h –
34 Xico Mexico 92 /100 21 °C 7.4 °C 17 mm 3 315 h –
35 Ciudad Obregón Mexico 92 /100 26 °C 11 °C 11 mm 2 302 h –
36 Tepic Mexico 92 /100 25 °C 13 °C 29 mm 3 302 h –
37 San Cristóbal de las Casas Mexico 92 /100 20 °C 10.0 °C 13 mm 3 329 h –
38 Puebla Mexico 92 /100 21 °C 7.4 °C 8 mm 1 324 h –
39 Cuautla Mexico 92 /100 26 °C 12 °C 5 mm 1 324 h –
40 Villa Canales Guatemala 91 /100 26 °C 15 °C 6 mm 1 335 h –
41 Aguascalientes Mexico 91 /100 21 °C 7.1 °C 17 mm 2 302 h –
42 Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl Mexico 91 /100 21 °C 6.5 °C 10 mm 2 314 h –
43 Iztapalapa Mexico 91 /100 20 °C 7.0 °C 17 mm 3 314 h –
44 Mazatlán Mexico 91 /100 25 °C 16 °C 14 mm 1 304 h 23 °C
45 Orlando United States 91 /100 21 °C 11 °C 56 mm 6 260 h –
46 San Martin Texmelucan de Labastida Mexico 91 /100 20 °C 6.5 °C 20 mm 4 317 h –
47 Tampa United States 91 /100 21 °C 12 °C 64 mm 6 268 h –
48 Tampico Mexico 90 /100 23 °C 17 °C 36 mm 7 233 h 22 °C
49 Port Saint Lucie United States 90 /100 22 °C 15 °C 52 mm 7 274 h 23 °C
50 Chilpancingo Mexico 90 /100 27 °C 15 °C 16 mm 2 327 h –

Monthly values for the month named in the ranking; only destinations with a published climate page are ranked. Download this ranking as CSV.

The same ranking one month earlier and later

December: top 5

  1. Tonalá 97 /100
  2. Tlaquepaque 97 /100
  3. Comitán 96 /100
  4. Ciudad Victoria 96 /100
  5. Torreón 96 /100

Full ranking for December

February: top 5

  1. Santa Catarina 97 /100
  2. Comitán 96 /100
  3. Monterrey 96 /100
  4. Mexicali 96 /100
  5. San Cristóbal de las Casas 96 /100

Full ranking for February

How this ranking is built

What is ranked
Our 0–100 comfort score for sightseeing weather (formula on the methodology page), in January, highest first.
Period
1991–2020 climate normals: the same 30 years for every destination, so the list compares like with like.
Who is included
50 destinations in North America with a published climate page. Neighbouring places that share a climate series are shown once.
Ties
Equal values are ordered by fewest wet days.
Sources
ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis via Open-Meteo; sea temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1. Measured values are reproduced unchanged; only the ordering and the score is ours.

Data sources and method

Normal period
1991–2020
Dataset version
era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: ranking order, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.