Climate averages 1991–2020
El Monte weather
in January.
A mild, moderately wet month: the 11th warmest and the 11th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a mild month in El Monte: daytime highs average 18.9°C and nights cool to about 7.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 84 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 10 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is West Covina (8 km away). In January its highs average 18.7°C, about as warm as El Monte, with 84 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, El Monte ranks joint 41st of 498 for the warmest January highs and joint 306th of 498 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 498 cities is 9.5°C; El Monte is 9.5°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 19.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 84 mm to 90 mm.
The annual picture
January in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
El Monte climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 18.9°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 84 | 5.8 | 10.210 h |
| February | 19.2°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 90 | 6.4 | 10.911 h |
| March | 20.8°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 55 | 5.9 | 12.012 h |
| April | 23.2°C10.4°C | 10.4°C | 22 | 3.2 | 13.013 h |
| May | 25.2°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 9.6 | 2.1 | 13.914 h |
| June | 28.4°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 2.2 | 0.4 | 14.414 h |
| July | 31.7°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 1.6 | 0.4 | 14.214 h |
| August | 32.9°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 0.5 | 0.1 | 13.413 h |
| September | 31.5°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 3.5 | 0.5 | 12.412 h |
| October | 27.4°C14.2°C | 14.2°C | 16 | 2.1 | 11.411 h |
| November | 22.9°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 21 | 2.5 | 10.410 h |
| December | 18.7°C6.7°C | 6.7°C | 55 | 5.0 | 9.910 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
- West Covina in JanuaryUnited States · 8 kmHigh 18.7°C · Low 6.8°C · 84 mm rain
- Whittier in JanuaryUnited States · 10 kmHigh 18.2°C · Low 6.0°C · 84 mm rain
- Pasadena (California), United States in JanuaryUnited States · 14 kmHigh 17.8°C · Low 6.1°C · 86 mm rain
- East Los Angeles in JanuaryUnited States · 14 kmHigh 18.3°C · Low 6.2°C · 80 mm rain
- Downey in JanuaryUnited States · 17 kmHigh 18.5°C · Low 6.4°C · 80 mm rain
- Los Angeles in JanuaryUnited States · 20 kmHigh 18.9°C · Low 6.8°C · 80 mm rain
- Glendale (California), United States in JanuaryUnited States · 23 kmHigh 18.4°C · Low 6.5°C · 86 mm rain
- Buena Park in JanuaryUnited States · 23 kmHigh 18.7°C · Low 6.7°C · 71 mm rain
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 limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for El Monte) is explained once on the El Monte year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
West Covina and Whittier lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.