Climate averages 1991–2020

Tepic weather
in January.

A warm, fairly dry month: the coolest and the 5th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule

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

Average high 25.1°C Daytime mean, January
Average low 12.7°C Night-time mean, January
Rainfall 30 mm 3 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Tepic · average highYear overview

January is a warm month in Tepic: daytime highs average 25.1°C and nights cool to about 12.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 30 mm of rain on roughly 3 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 59 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Puerto Vallarta (105 km away). In January its highs average 28.2°C, 3.1°C warmer than Tepic, with 34 mm of rain.

Among the 153 cities listed in Mexico, Tepic ranks 38th of 153 for the warmest January highs and 117th of 153 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 153 cities is 22.4°C; Tepic is 2.7°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 1.2°C to 26.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 30 mm to 27 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 101520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 4000

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

Every month, side by side

Tepic climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Tepic, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January, selected 25.1°C12.7°C12.7°C303.211.011 h
February 26.3°C13.0°C13.0°C272.311.411 h
March 28.0°C13.3°C13.3°C101.512.012 h
April 29.7°C14.5°C14.5°C3.71.012.613 h
May 30.9°C16.9°C16.9°C132.413.213 h
June 29.2°C20.0°C20.0°C17015.513.413 h
July 27.7°C20.2°C20.2°C32929.113.313 h
August 27.6°C20.4°C20.4°C39330.012.913 h
September 27.2°C20.3°C20.3°C35728.512.312 h
October 27.4°C19.4°C19.4°C14416.411.712 h
November 26.8°C16.3°C16.3°C364.911.111 h
December 25.4°C13.7°C13.7°C313.110.811 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 Tepic

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