Climate averages 1991–2020

Orizaba weather
in January.

A mild, wet month: the coolest and the 3rd driest of the year.

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

Average high 20.3°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 10.5°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 111 mm 16 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a mild month in Orizaba: daytime highs average 20.3°C and nights cool to about 10.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 111 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes January a wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 08 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Córdoba, Mexico (19 km away). In January its highs average 20.5°C, about as warm as Orizaba, with 123 mm of rain.

Among the 153 cities listed in Mexico, Orizaba ranks joint 101st of 153 for the warmest January highs and 152nd of 153 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 153 cities is 22.4°C; Orizaba is 2.1°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 1.8°C to 22.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 111 mm to 97 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

Orizaba climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Orizaba, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	20.3°C10.5°C	10.5°C	111	15.8	11.111 h
February	22.0°C11.1°C	11.1°C	97	13.1	11.512 h
March	23.9°C12.4°C	12.4°C	151	16.7	12.012 h
April	25.7°C14.4°C	14.4°C	192	18.7	12.613 h
May	25.7°C15.6°C	15.6°C	211	21.0	13.013 h
June	24.8°C16.2°C	16.2°C	227	23.0	13.213 h
July	24.5°C15.1°C	15.1°C	145	18.1	13.113 h
August	24.8°C15.7°C	15.7°C	142	19.9	12.813 h
September	24.0°C16.3°C	16.3°C	204	23.9	12.312 h
October	23.0°C14.9°C	14.9°C	192	20.9	11.712 h
November	21.3°C12.6°C	12.6°C	140	16.7	11.311 h
December	20.7°C11.0°C	11.0°C	93	14.6	11.011 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 Orizaba

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