Weather in Surat in January

A good month. January is a solid month to be in Surat. Highs average 32.7 °C, lows 15.7 °C, and rain falls on 0 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

January is the highest-scoring month of the twelve. The nearest rival is December, and the month at the other end of the year is May.

Rain is not a factor worth planning around this month. Pack for 32.7 °C days and 15.7 °C nights; the spread matters more here than any single number.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 26 days top 30 °C, making the heat continuous rather than occasional; the day swings 17 °C from low to high, which means one bag has to cover both. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest January day reached 38.4 °C and the coldest night fell to 9 °C.

January is dependably dry, and that reliability is the point: across the twenty years measured, the wettest January on record still only managed 9 mm, and the driest managed 0 mm. There is no meaningful variability to plan around, which makes this one of the few months anywhere that you can build a fixed outdoor itinerary against without a fallback. The wettest single day in twenty years of Januarys brought 6 mm. Rain simply is not the variable that decides this trip — heat, crowds and cost are.

Wind is light at 7.4 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and the air is dry at 36% humidity, which makes the heat far more bearable than the same figure somewhere humid — and dehydrates you faster than you expect.

How January sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 33.3 °C in December, 32.7 here, 35.1 in February. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in January

January sits at the dark end of Surat's year — 11 hours of daylight against 13.4 at midsummer, holding steady all month. Sightseeing days are genuinely shorter, and an itinerary built for summer will not fit.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 24.6 °C in January — warm enough to stay in as long as you like. The sea peaks at 29.7 °C in June and bottoms out at 24.4 °C — water lags the air by a month or two, which is why the best swimming often comes after the best weather.

How busy it gets

Peak season. Expect the highest prices of the year and to be booking well ahead.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

January in Surat versus nearby

If Surat is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Nashik is a better bet in January — 2.4 °C cooler, the same number of rain days. Virār is a better bet in January — 6.8 °C cooler, the same number of rain days.

So: January is the answer for Surat. If it is booked out or priced out, December is the next best thing at 2 points behind, and May is the month to keep off the shortlist.

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