Climate averages 1991–2020
Mobile weather
in January.
A mild, wet month: the coolest and the joint 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a mild month in Mobile: daytime highs average 15.2°C and nights cool to about 7.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 119 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes January a wet month (the joint 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 24 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Gulfport (107 km away). In January its highs average 14.8°C, about as warm as Mobile, with 129 mm of rain.
Among the 498 cities listed in the United States, Mobile ranks 132nd of 498 for the warmest January highs and joint 457th of 498 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 498 cities is 9.5°C; Mobile is 5.7°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 2.0°C to 17.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 119 mm to 110 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
Mobile climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 15.2°C7.1°C | 7.1°C | 119 | 9.1 | 10.410 h |
| February | 17.2°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 110 | 8.4 | 11.111 h |
| March | 20.3°C11.8°C | 11.8°C | 119 | 9.0 | 12.012 h |
| April | 23.8°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 107 | 8.4 | 12.913 h |
| May | 27.7°C19.7°C | 19.7°C | 87 | 9.6 | 13.714 h |
| June | 30.4°C23.3°C | 23.3°C | 128 | 14.8 | 14.114 h |
| July | 31.2°C24.6°C | 24.6°C | 150 | 18.8 | 13.914 h |
| August | 31.0°C24.4°C | 24.4°C | 140 | 18.4 | 13.313 h |
| September | 29.4°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 117 | 11.1 | 12.412 h |
| October | 25.4°C17.1°C | 17.1°C | 88 | 7.1 | 11.411 h |
| November | 20.1°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 98 | 7.3 | 10.611 h |
| December | 16.6°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 115 | 9.0 | 10.210 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
- Gulfport in JanuaryUnited States · 107 kmHigh 14.8°C · Low 8.0°C · 129 mm rain
- New Orleans in JanuaryUnited States · 212 kmHigh 15.9°C · Low 9.1°C · 113 mm rain
- Metairie in JanuaryUnited States · 217 kmHigh 16.0°C · Low 9.1°C · 119 mm rain
- Montgomery in JanuaryUnited States · 249 kmHigh 13.4°C · Low 3.7°C · 106 mm rain
- Jackson in JanuaryUnited States · 270 kmHigh 13.2°C · Low 3.6°C · 121 mm rain
- Tuscaloosa in JanuaryUnited States · 283 kmHigh 12.3°C · Low 3.0°C · 123 mm rain
- Baton Rouge in JanuaryUnited States · 302 kmHigh 15.9°C · Low 6.9°C · 124 mm rain
- Hoover in JanuaryUnited States · 323 kmHigh 11.7°C · Low 2.6°C · 126 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 Mobile) is explained once on the Mobile year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.