Climate averages 1991–2020

Cárdenas, Mexico weather
in January.

A warm, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 4th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 26.3°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 19.2°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 81 mm 11 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Cárdenas, Mexico: daytime highs average 26.3°C and nights cool to about 19.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 81 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 11 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Villahermosa (46 km away). In January its highs average 26.8°C, about as warm as Cárdenas, Mexico, with 85 mm of rain.

Among the 153 cities listed in Mexico, Cárdenas, Mexico ranks 24th of 153 for the warmest January highs and 148th of 153 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 153 cities is 22.4°C; Cárdenas, Mexico is 3.9°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 1.7°C to 28.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 81 mm to 50 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Cárdenas, Mexico climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Cárdenas, Mexico, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	26.3°C19.2°C	19.2°C	81	11.1	11.211 h
February	28.0°C19.7°C	19.7°C	50	7.7	11.512 h
March	30.8°C21.2°C	21.2°C	31	6.2	12.012 h
April	33.5°C23.4°C	23.4°C	39	6.4	12.513 h
May	34.1°C24.9°C	24.9°C	84	11.4	13.013 h
June	32.4°C24.8°C	24.8°C	208	21.1	13.213 h
July	32.3°C24.5°C	24.5°C	164	19.5	13.113 h
August	31.6°C24.4°C	24.4°C	227	24.0	12.713 h
September	30.2°C23.8°C	23.8°C	289	26.0	12.312 h
October	28.9°C22.8°C	22.8°C	243	21.4	11.712 h
November	27.6°C21.1°C	21.1°C	134	15.2	11.311 h
December	26.7°C19.8°C	19.8°C	82	11.8	11.111 h

Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

Compare places

January in nearby cities

Distance from Cárdenas

Read the numbers correctly

Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Cárdenas) is explained once on the Cárdenas, Mexico year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.