Best weather in January
The 15 countries whose January comes closest to comfortable travel weather, scored from ten years of ERA5 data. Open any of them for the month in detail — regional breakdown, the rest of the year, and current travel-advisory levels.
Scored against the default profile: days 22–30 °C, nights 12–22 °C, no more than light rain, at least 6 hours of sun. Set your own on the map — averages, not a forecast.
- Dominican Republic in JanuaryNorth America27°C36 mm7.4 h sunAll year
- Guatemala in JanuaryNorth America27°C62 mm6.4 h sunAll year
- Oman in JanuaryAsia26°C3 mm9.9 h sunAll year
- Yemen in JanuaryAsia26°C3 mm10.1 h sunAll year
- Puerto Rico in JanuaryNorth America27°C39 mm8.0 h sunAll year
- Myanmar in JanuaryAsia26°C25 mm7.8 h sunAll year
- Haiti in JanuaryNorth America28°C28 mm8.3 h sunAll year
- Eritrea in JanuaryAfrica30°C15 mm9.0 h sunAll year
- Laos in JanuaryAsia26°C26 mm6.5 h sunAll year
- Cuba in JanuaryNorth America27°C31 mm7.0 h sunAll year
- Montserrat in JanuaryNorth America26°C40 mm8.3 h sunAll year
- Mauritania in JanuaryAfrica26°C0 mm9.8 h sunAll year
- Saint Kitts and Nevis in JanuaryNorth America26°C38 mm8.1 h sunAll year
- Antigua and Barbuda in JanuaryNorth America26°C38 mm8.0 h sunAll year
- Saint Martin in JanuaryNorth America26°C39 mm8.0 h sunAll year
How this ranking works
Every country’s January is scored on three things: mean temperature, rainfall per day and sunshine hours, each averaged over ten years of ERA5 reanalysis. The score is the same one the map paints and the country pages print — a country cannot look better here than it does on its own page.
Countries that score identically are ordered by how far inside the comfortable range they sit, so a country in the middle of the band comes before one at its edge. Averages describe a typical January; they are not a forecast for the week you travel, and a national figure hides a lot in a large country — open a country to see its regions.