Climate averages 1991–2020

Minatitlán 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 25.2°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 19.3°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 70 mm 11 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Minatitlán: daytime highs average 25.2°C and nights cool to about 19.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 70 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 Coatzacoalcos (20 km away). In January its highs average 25.0°C, about as warm as Minatitlán, with 93 mm of rain.

Among the 153 cities listed in Mexico, Minatitlán ranks 37th of 153 for the warmest January highs and 146th of 153 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 153 cities is 22.4°C; Minatitlán is 2.8°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 1.7°C to 27.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 70 mm to 34 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

Minatitlán climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Minatitlán, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	25.2°C19.3°C	19.3°C	70	10.7	11.211 h
February	27.0°C19.9°C	19.9°C	34	6.7	11.512 h
March	29.7°C21.3°C	21.3°C	21	4.4	12.012 h
April	32.6°C23.4°C	23.4°C	22	4.6	12.513 h
May	33.2°C24.7°C	24.7°C	72	10.7	13.013 h
June	31.1°C24.5°C	24.5°C	249	23.6	13.213 h
July	29.9°C24.1°C	24.1°C	289	27.0	13.113 h
August	29.8°C24.0°C	24.0°C	331	27.6	12.713 h
September	29.2°C23.8°C	23.8°C	334	27.1	12.312 h
October	28.1°C22.8°C	22.8°C	246	21.5	11.712 h
November	26.5°C21.3°C	21.3°C	138	15.9	11.311 h
December	25.6°C20.1°C	20.1°C	73	12.8	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 Minatitlán

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 Minatitlán) is explained once on the Minatitlán year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.