Climate averages 1991–2020

Uruapan weather
in January.

A warm, moderately wet 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 23.1°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 10.2°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 43 mm 6 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Uruapan: daytime highs average 23.1°C and nights cool to about 10.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 43 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 06 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Apatzingán (48 km away). In January its highs average 31.0°C, 7.9°C warmer than Uruapan, with 14 mm of rain.

Among the 153 cities listed in Mexico, Uruapan ranks joint 58th of 153 for the warmest January highs and 133rd of 153 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 153 cities is 22.4°C; Uruapan is 0.7°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 1.5°C to 24.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 43 mm to 40 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

Uruapan climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Uruapan, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	23.1°C10.2°C	10.2°C	43	6.2	11.111 h
February	24.7°C10.5°C	10.5°C	40	5.2	11.511 h
March	26.6°C11.4°C	11.4°C	38	6.0	12.012 h
April	28.5°C13.0°C	13.0°C	31	7.0	12.613 h
May	28.2°C14.7°C	14.7°C	145	17.1	13.013 h
June	25.2°C15.9°C	15.9°C	280	26.2	13.313 h
July	24.3°C15.3°C	15.3°C	340	29.9	13.213 h
August	24.4°C15.3°C	15.3°C	335	29.7	12.813 h
September	23.8°C15.1°C	15.1°C	311	27.8	12.312 h
October	24.1°C14.2°C	14.2°C	166	19.7	11.712 h
November	24.0°C12.3°C	12.3°C	59	9.4	11.211 h
December	23.4°C10.9°C	10.9°C	26	4.7	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 Uruapan

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