Climate averages 1991–2020
Huntington Beach weather
in January.
A mild, moderately wet month: one of the coolest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a mild month in Huntington Beach: daytime highs average 17.4°C and nights cool to about 8.2°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the coolest months of the year.
Expect about 71 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 11 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Westminster (California), United States (11 km away). In January its highs average 18.1°C, 0.6°C warmer than Huntington Beach, with 71 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Huntington Beach ranks joint 87th of 498 for the warmest January highs and joint 233rd of 498 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 498 cities is 9.5°C; Huntington Beach is 7.9°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs stay level at 17.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 71 mm to 79 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
Huntington Beach climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 17.4°C8.2°C | 8.2°C | 71 | 5.2 | 10.210 h |
| February | 17.4°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 79 | 6.1 | 11.011 h |
| March | 18.2°C10.3°C | 10.3°C | 46 | 5.1 | 12.012 h |
| April | 19.7°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 18 | 2.6 | 13.013 h |
| May | 20.9°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 7.4 | 1.5 | 13.914 h |
| June | 23.0°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 1.8 | 0.3 | 14.314 h |
| July | 25.4°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 1.3 | 0.4 | 14.214 h |
| August | 26.5°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 0.4 | 0.1 | 13.413 h |
| September | 25.9°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 3.6 | 0.5 | 12.412 h |
| October | 23.6°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 14 | 1.9 | 11.411 h |
| November | 20.5°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 19 | 2.4 | 10.510 h |
| December | 17.4°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 48 | 4.9 | 10.010 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
- Westminster (California), United States in JanuaryUnited States · 11 kmHigh 18.1°C · Low 7.1°C · 71 mm rain
- Santa Ana, United States in JanuaryUnited States · 15 kmHigh 17.4°C · Low 8.1°C · 79 mm rain
- Irvine in JanuaryUnited States · 16 kmHigh 18.3°C · Low 8.4°C · 79 mm rain
- Anaheim in JanuaryUnited States · 21 kmHigh 18.1°C · Low 6.8°C · 71 mm rain
- Long Beach in JanuaryUnited States · 21 kmHigh 17.8°C · Low 7.8°C · 68 mm rain
- Buena Park in JanuaryUnited States · 23 kmHigh 18.7°C · Low 6.7°C · 71 mm rain
- Fullerton in JanuaryUnited States · 24 kmHigh 18.6°C · Low 6.7°C · 71 mm rain
- Mission Viejo in JanuaryUnited States · 31 kmHigh 17.8°C · Low 8.4°C · 66 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 Huntington Beach) is explained once on the Huntington Beach year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Anaheim, Fullerton and Westminster (California), United States lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.