The warmest places in North America in January: ranked by average high temperature
San Miguel tops the list at 35 °C in January. Ranked from 1991–2020 climate normals across 50 destinations in North America.
Top three in January: San Miguel (35 °C) , Managua (33 °C) , Dessalines (31 °C) . Between first and 50th place the avg high differs by 7.9 °C.
| # | Destination | Country | Avg high | Avg high | Avg low | Rainfall | Wet days | Sunshine | Sea temp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | San Miguel | El Salvador | 35 °C | 35 °C | 22 °C | 1 mm | 0 | 344 h | – |
| 2 | Managua | Nicaragua | 33 °C | 33 °C | 23 °C | 2 mm | 0 | 345 h | – |
| 3 | Dessalines | Haiti | 31 °C | 31 °C | 21 °C | 10 mm | 2 | 318 h | – |
| 4 | Port-au-Prince | Haiti | 31 °C | 31 °C | 21 °C | 23 mm | 6 | 322 h | 28 °C |
| 5 | Acapulco de Juárez | Mexico | 30 °C | 30 °C | 21 °C | 12 mm | 1 | 327 h | 29 °C |
| 6 | Escuintla | Guatemala | 30 °C | 30 °C | 19 °C | 10 mm | 3 | 337 h | – |
| 7 | San Salvador | El Salvador | 30 °C | 30 °C | 19 °C | 2 mm | 1 | 338 h | – |
| 8 | Carrefour | Haiti | 30 °C | 30 °C | 21 °C | 20 mm | 4 | 323 h | 28 °C |
| 9 | Tapachula | Mexico | 30 °C | 30 °C | 19 °C | 18 mm | 5 | 337 h | – |
| 10 | Soyapango | El Salvador | 30 °C | 30 °C | 20 °C | 2 mm | 1 | 338 h | – |
| 11 | Saint-Marc | Haiti | 30 °C | 30 °C | 22 °C | 12 mm | 3 | 322 h | 28 °C |
| 12 | Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas | Mexico | 30 °C | 30 °C | 21 °C | 22 mm | 1 | 312 h | 28 °C |
| 13 | Santa Ana | El Salvador | 30 °C | 30 °C | 19 °C | 2 mm | 0 | 337 h | – |
| 14 | Guantánamo | Cuba | 30 °C | 30 °C | 20 °C | 15 mm | 4 | 321 h | – |
| 15 | San Miguelito | Panama | 29 °C | 29 °C | 24 °C | 20 mm | 5 | 336 h | 27 °C |
| 16 | Bayamo | Cuba | 29 °C | 29 °C | 19 °C | 20 mm | 4 | 318 h | – |
| 17 | Panama City | Panama | 29 °C | 29 °C | 24 °C | 20 mm | 5 | 336 h | 27 °C |
| 18 | Windhoek | Namibia | 29 °C | 29 °C | 17 °C | 126 mm | 12 | 372 h | – |
| 19 | Campeche | Mexico | 29 °C | 29 °C | 21 °C | 17 mm | 4 | 303 h | 24 °C |
| 20 | Manzanillo | Mexico | 29 °C | 29 °C | 20 °C | 22 mm | 1 | 309 h | 27 °C |
| 21 | Santiago de Cuba | Cuba | 29 °C | 29 °C | 21 °C | 13 mm | 3 | 322 h | 27 °C |
| 22 | Mérida | Mexico | 29 °C | 29 °C | 19 °C | 20 mm | 4 | 291 h | – |
| 23 | La Romana | Dominican Republic | 28 °C | 28 °C | 22 °C | 19 mm | 4 | 329 h | 27 °C |
| 24 | Las Tunas | Cuba | 28 °C | 28 °C | 20 °C | 20 mm | 5 | 310 h | – |
| 25 | San Pedro de Macorís | Dominican Republic | 28 °C | 28 °C | 23 °C | 19 mm | 4 | 327 h | 27 °C |
| 26 | Culiacán | Mexico | 28 °C | 28 °C | 13 °C | 14 mm | 2 | 304 h | – |
| 27 | Camagüey | Cuba | 28 °C | 28 °C | 20 °C | 18 mm | 4 | 313 h | – |
| 28 | Puerto Vallarta | Mexico | 28 °C | 28 °C | 18 °C | 31 mm | 3 | 304 h | 25 °C |
| 29 | Tuxtla | Mexico | 28 °C | 28 °C | 17 °C | 7 mm | 2 | 327 h | – |
| 30 | San Juan | Puerto Rico | 28 °C | 28 °C | 21 °C | 43 mm | 10 | 336 h | 27 °C |
| 31 | Kingston | Jamaica | 28 °C | 28 °C | 22 °C | 28 mm | 7 | 331 h | 27 °C |
| 32 | Port-de-Paix | Haiti | 28 °C | 28 °C | 22 °C | 40 mm | 7 | 316 h | 27 °C |
| 33 | Port of Spain | Trinidad and Tobago | 28 °C | 28 °C | 24 °C | 45 mm | 10 | 339 h | 27 °C |
| 34 | Carolina | Puerto Rico | 28 °C | 28 °C | 22 °C | 51 mm | 15 | 337 h | 27 °C |
| 35 | Holguín | Cuba | 28 °C | 28 °C | 20 °C | 27 mm | 7 | 311 h | – |
| 36 | Santo Domingo | Dominican Republic | 28 °C | 28 °C | 20 °C | 33 mm | 11 | 323 h | 27 °C |
| 37 | Santiago de los Caballeros | Dominican Republic | 27 °C | 27 °C | 19 °C | 41 mm | 8 | 308 h | – |
| 38 | Cienfuegos | Cuba | 27 °C | 27 °C | 20 °C | 22 mm | 3 | 316 h | – |
| 39 | Basse-Terre | Guadeloupe | 27 °C | 27 °C | 24 °C | 40 mm | 12 | 334 h | 27 °C |
| 40 | Castries | Saint Lucia | 27 °C | 27 °C | 24 °C | 36 mm | 12 | 335 h | 27 °C |
| 41 | Kralendijk | Bonaire, Saint Eustatius and Saba | 27 °C | 27 °C | 25 °C | 37 mm | 10 | 341 h | 27 °C |
| 42 | Chilpancingo | Mexico | 27 °C | 27 °C | 15 °C | 16 mm | 2 | 327 h | – |
| 43 | Oranjestad | Aruba | 27 °C | 27 °C | 25 °C | 33 mm | 10 | 342 h | 26 °C |
| 44 | Villahermosa | Mexico | 27 °C | 27 °C | 20 °C | 86 mm | 10 | 277 h | – |
| 45 | Kingstown | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 27 °C | 27 °C | 25 °C | 39 mm | 11 | 337 h | 27 °C |
| 46 | Ciudad del Carmen | Mexico | 27 °C | 27 °C | 21 °C | 45 mm | 7 | 306 h | 25 °C |
| 47 | Fort-de-France | Martinique | 27 °C | 27 °C | 24 °C | 51 mm | 18 | 334 h | 27 °C |
| 48 | Willemstad | Curacao | 27 °C | 27 °C | 25 °C | 48 mm | 13 | 341 h | 27 °C |
| 49 | Bridgetown | Barbados | 27 °C | 27 °C | 25 °C | 36 mm | 10 | 338 h | 27 °C |
| 50 | Chetumal | Mexico | 27 °C | 27 °C | 21 °C | 53 mm | 12 | 298 h | 26 °C |
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
- San Miguel 34 °C
- Managua 32 °C
- Dessalines 31 °C
- Windhoek 30 °C
- Port-au-Prince 30 °C
February: top 5
- Nuuk -11 °C
- Winnipeg -8.3 °C
- Saskatoon -6.9 °C
- Regina -5.7 °C
- Greater Sudbury -5.3 °C
How this ranking is built
- What is ranked
- The average daily high temperature, in °C, 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 population.
- Sources
- ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis via Open-Meteo; sea temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1. Measured values are reproduced unchanged; only the ordering is ours.
Data sources and method
- ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
- Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
- NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
- GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0
- 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.