Average January Temperatures for New Mexico

Average temperatures for January at cities, towns, parks and lakes throughout New Mexico are listed below in degrees Fahrenheit and Celsius.

You can jump to a separate table for each region of the state: Southern, Central and Northern New Mexico.

The tables give the normals for maximum and minimum temperatures based on weather data collected from 1991 to 2020 by the US National Centers for Environmental Information.

Southern New Mexico

Average January temperatures
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
55	33	Alamogordo	13	1
57	21	Bitter Lake Wildlife Refuge	14	-6
59	30	Carlsbad	15	-1
56	34	Carlsbad Caverns National Park	13	1
43	14	Cuba	6	-10
57	30	Elephant Butte Lake Dam	14	-1
57	17	Gila Hot Springs	14	-8
55	30	Hobbs	13	-1
59	30	Las Cruces	15	-1
57	28	Roswell	14	-2
49	21	Ruidoso	9	-6
57	22	White Sands National Monument	14	-5

Central New Mexico

Average daily temperatures in January
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
48	26	Albuquerque	9	-3
53	26	Clovis	12	-3
53	26	Conchas Lake Dam	12	-4
44	14	El Morro National Monument	7	-10
45	14	Gallup	7	-10
49	23	Gran Quivira National Monument	10	-5
50	15	Grants	10	-10
47	20	Las Vegas	8	-7
47	18	Pecos National Monument	8	-8
43	18	Santa Fe	6	-8
52	23	Socorro	11	-5
53	25	Tucumcari	12	-4

Northern New Mexico

January temperatures: daily averages
High °F	Low °F	Place	High °C	Low °C
42	18	Abiquiu Lake Dam	6	-8
46	17	Aztec Ruins National Monument	8	-8
43	13	Chaco Canyon National Monument	6	-11
50	21	Clayton	10	-6
39	5	Eagle Nest	4	-15
40	9	El Vado Lake Dam	4	-13
41	20	Farmington	5	-7
42	11	Lake Maloya (Sugarite Canyon Park)	5	-12
47	14	Raton	8	-10
35	7	Red River	2	-14
42	12	Taos	6	-11

Average Temperatures for New Mexico in January

Southern New Mexico

Central New Mexico

Northern New Mexico

Reference

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