Where Is It Warm in January? The Warmest Places
Among 619 covered cities, Juba, South Sudan is warmest in January with average highs of 99°. For milder warmth and more sunshine, Cape Town, South Africa averages 79° with 13.3 sun hours a day.
Start with comfortable winter warmth
Every ranking uses the same ten-year 2015–2024 reanalysis window, not brochure copy. Average daytime highs, overnight lows, rainy days and sunshine hours make it possible to separate raw heat from weather that is easier to use.
January at a glance
- Hottest overall: Juba, South Sudan - 99° average highs
- Comfortable warmth: Cape Town, South Africa - 79° with 13.3 hours of sun a day
- How to use this page: compare heat, rain and sunshine, then open a city's climate guide for the full year
If your dates are flexible, compare this month with the complete warm places by month guide.
Warm winter alternatives without the strongest heat
Highs between 70°F and 85°F (21–29°C), sorted by sunshine. This is a climate filter, not a forecast for specific dates.
| City | Jan high / low | Sun h/day | Rainy days |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🇿🇦 Cape Town, South Africa | 79° / 64° | 13.3 | 3 |
| 🇦🇺 Adelaide, Australia | 82° / 62° | 12.4 | 5 |
| 🇺🇾 Montevideo, Uruguay | 80° / 68° | 12.1 | 9 |
| 🇦🇷 Buenos Aires, Argentina | 83° / 69° | 12.0 | 9 |
| 🇱🇸 Maseru, Lesotho | 81° / 58° | 11.9 | 14 |
| 🇳🇿 Auckland, New Zealand | 73° / 64° | 11.8 | 11 |
| 🇿🇦 Johannesburg, South Africa | 78° / 58° | 11.6 | 14 |
| 🇳🇿 Christchurch, New Zealand | 71° / 56° | 11.5 | 8 |
| 🇦🇺 Gold Coast, Australia | 82° / 72° | 11.5 | 16 |
| 🇦🇺 Canberra, Australia | 81° / 59° | 11.4 | 9 |
| 🇿🇦 Pretoria, South Africa | 83° / 62° | 11.4 | 12 |
| 🇦🇺 Hobart, Australia | 72° / 55° | 11.3 | 9 |
| 🇳🇿 Tokoroa, New Zealand | 72° / 55° | 11.3 | 12 |
| 🇵🇪 Lima, Peru | 76° / 68° | 11.1 | 4 |
| 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Australia | 80° / 60° | 11.1 | 8 |
How January redistributes warmth around the world
The top 25 span 23 countries, while Africa supplies 15 places. The gap from first to tenth is 5.1°C (9.2°F), showing whether the leaders form a tight pack or one place pulls away.
How the leading city changes around this month
Juba, South Sudan averages 98° in December, 99° in January, and 101° in February. The change entering January is 0.8°C; the change into February is 1.3°C.
A lower-rain warm option
Among 114 covered cities with comfortable 21–29°C daytime highs outside the hottest 25, Nouakchott, Mauritania has the fewest typical rainy days: about 0, with 9.6 hours of sunshine per day.
The hottest places on Earth in January
| City | Jan high | Jan low | Rainy days | Sun h/day | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🇸🇸 Juba, South Sudan | 99° | 73° | 0 | 11.3 |
| 2 | 🇨🇫 Bangui, Central African Republic | 94° | 70° | 1 | 11.2 |
| 3 | 🇳🇬 Abuja, Nigeria | 93° | 70° | 0 | 11.0 |
| 4 | 🇬🇼 Bissau, Guinea-Bissau | 91° | 70° | 0 | 10.5 |
| 5 | 🇲🇱 Bamako, Mali | 91° | 65° | 0 | 10.7 |
| 6 | 🇧🇫 Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso | 91° | 63° | 0 | 10.8 |
| 7 | 🇵🇾 Asuncion, Paraguay | 91° | 76° | 13 | 11.4 |
| 8 | 🇳🇮 Managua, Nicaragua | 90° | 74° | 3 | 11.1 |
| 9 | 🇻🇳 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam | 90° | 73° | 4 | 10.4 |
| 10 | 🇹🇩 N'Djamena, Chad | 90° | 63° | 0 | 10.8 |
| 11 | 🇳🇪 Niamey, Niger | 90° | 62° | 0 | 10.3 |
| 12 | 🇰🇭 Phnom Penh, Cambodia | 89° | 74° | 4 | 10.4 |
| 13 | 🇧🇼 Gaborone, Botswana | 89° | 69° | 9 | 11.7 |
| 14 | 🇨🇴 Cartagena, Colombia | 88° | 76° | 4 | 11.1 |
| 15 | 🇬🇭 Accra, Ghana | 88° | 76° | 4 | 10.4 |
| 16 | 🇹🇬 Lome, Togo | 88° | 76° | 6 | 10.3 |
| 17 | 🇭🇹 Port-au-Prince, Haiti | 88° | 72° | 4 | 10.4 |
| 18 | 🇰🇭 Siem Reap, Cambodia | 88° | 71° | 2 | 10.3 |
| 19 | 🇬🇲 Banjul, Gambia | 88° | 70° | 0 | 10.3 |
| 20 | 🇸🇴 Mogadishu, Somalia | 88° | 75° | 1 | 11.7 |
| 21 | 🇹🇭 Bangkok, Thailand | 88° | 72° | 4 | 10.3 |
| 22 | 🇳🇬 Lagos, Nigeria | 88° | 76° | 5 | 10.2 |
| 23 | 🇹🇿 Zanzibar City, Tanzania | 88° | 78° | 14 | 11.1 |
| 24 | 🇲🇲 Yangon, Myanmar | 87° | 67° | 2 | 10.4 |
| 25 | 🇮🇳 Panaji, India | 87° | 69° | 1 | 10.7 |