Climate averages 1991–2020

Tijuana weather
in January.

A mild, moderately wet month: the 10th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.

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

Average high 16.9°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 9.0°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 63 mm 6 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a mild month in Tijuana: daytime highs average 16.9°C and nights cool to about 9.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 63 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 16 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Rosarito (16 km away). In January its highs average 17.2°C, about as warm as Tijuana, with 56 mm of rain.

Among the 153 cities listed in Mexico, Tijuana ranks 148th of 153 for the warmest January highs and 143rd of 153 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 153 cities is 22.4°C; Tijuana is 5.5°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs fall by 0.4°C to 16.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 63 mm to 79 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

Tijuana climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Tijuana, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	16.9°C9.0°C	9.0°C	63	6.1	10.310 h
February	16.5°C9.3°C	9.3°C	79	7.0	11.011 h
March	17.1°C10.3°C	10.3°C	53	5.9	12.012 h
April	18.2°C11.6°C	11.6°C	25	4.2	13.013 h
May	19.4°C13.5°C	13.5°C	11	2.1	13.814 h
June	21.4°C15.3°C	15.3°C	2.4	0.4	14.214 h
July	23.8°C17.7°C	17.7°C	2.0	0.4	14.114 h
August	24.8°C18.6°C	18.6°C	1.2	0.3	13.313 h
September	24.4°C17.9°C	17.9°C	4.0	0.8	12.412 h
October	22.3°C15.2°C	15.2°C	15	2.4	11.411 h
November	19.6°C11.8°C	11.8°C	26	3.6	10.511 h
December	16.8°C9.0°C	9.0°C	51	5.8	10.110 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 Tijuana

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