Climate averages 1991–2020

Playa del Carmen weather
in January.

A warm, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 5th driest of the year.

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

Average high 25.7°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 21.9°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 55 mm 11 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Playa del Carmen: daytime highs average 25.7°C and nights cool to about 21.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 55 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 02 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Cozumel (20 km away). In January its highs average 25.3°C, about as warm as Playa del Carmen, with 64 mm of rain.

Among the 153 cities listed in Mexico, Playa del Carmen ranks 29th of 153 for the warmest January highs and 138th of 153 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 153 cities is 22.4°C; Playa del Carmen is 3.2°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.8°C to 26.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 55 mm to 27 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

Playa del Carmen climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Playa del Carmen, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	25.7°C21.9°C	21.9°C	55	10.5	11.011 h
February	26.4°C22.4°C	22.4°C	27	6.5	11.511 h
March	27.1°C22.9°C	22.9°C	27	5.8	12.012 h
April	28.5°C24.2°C	24.2°C	32	5.9	12.613 h
May	29.3°C25.1°C	25.1°C	82	11.6	13.113 h
June	29.4°C25.7°C	25.7°C	154	17.2	13.413 h
July	30.0°C26.1°C	26.1°C	80	14.1	13.313 h
August	30.1°C26.1°C	26.1°C	99	16.7	12.813 h
September	29.6°C25.6°C	25.6°C	166	21.7	12.312 h
October	28.4°C24.6°C	24.6°C	188	19.6	11.712 h
November	27.1°C23.4°C	23.4°C	84	11.9	11.211 h
December	26.2°C22.5°C	22.5°C	54	10.6	10.911 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 Playa del Carmen

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 Playa del Carmen) is explained once on the Playa del Carmen year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.