Weather in Zapopan in January

Prime time. January is about as good as Zapopan gets. Highs average 24.6 °C, lows 9.7 °C, and rain falls on 2 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

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

Rain falls on only 2 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Nothing specialised needed — this is the month you pack for the trip rather than for the weather.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: it never really gets hot: not one day in an average January reaches 30 °C. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest January day reached 29.6 °C and the coldest night fell to 1.9 °C.

This is the volatile part. January rainfall has ranged from 0 mm to 39 mm across the twenty years measured — a 39 mm spread around an average of 10 mm. The average is real but almost no individual January looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.

Wind is light at 5.8 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 53%.

How January sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 24.8 °C in December, 24.6 here, 27 in February. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in January

January sits at the dark end of Zapopan'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.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 23.7 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights. At 1565 m, altitude is doing as much work here as latitude: thinner air means fierce sun by day and heat that leaves the moment it sets. Within January itself the daily swing is 14.9 °C, so mornings and afternoons need different clothes.

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 Zapopan versus nearby

If Zapopan is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Morelia is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, the same number of rain days. San Luis Potosí is close enough to be a coin toss — 3.3 °C cooler, the same number of rain days.

So: January is the answer for Zapopan. If it is booked out or priced out, February is the next best thing at 0 points behind, and June is the month to keep off the shortlist.

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