January Temperature Averages for South American Cities

Temperature averages for January at major cities throughout South America are listed below in degrees Celsius and Fahrenheit.

Included in this group are South America's national capitals plus cities with a metropolitan population of over one million people.

The cities are listed alphabetically and you can jump ahead to the section for Asunción to Cochabamba or Córdoba to Montevideo or Natal to Vitíria.

The tables give the averages of this month's maximum and minimum daily temperatures based on historical weather data collected over a long period, in most cases 30 years.

Average January temperatures
High °F Low °F City High °C Low °C
92 73 Asunción, Paraguay 34 23
85 66 Barquisimeto, Venezuela 30 19
84 84 Barranquilla, Colombia 29 29
88 72 Belém, Brazil 31 22
83 66 Belo Horizonte, Brazil 28 19
68 46 Bogotá, Colombia 20 8
80 63 Brasília, Brazil 27 17
82 66 Bucaramanga, Colombia 28 19
86 67 Buenos Aires, Argentina 30 20
86 67 Cali, Colombia 30 19
85 66 Campinas, Brazil 29 19
84 56 Caracas, Venezuela 29 13
86 74 Cartagena, Colombia 30 23
84 76 Cayenne, French Guiana 29 24
78 55 Cochabamba, Bolivia 26 13
Temperatures averages for January
High °F Low °F City High °C Low °C
88 65 Córdoba, Argentina 31 18
80 62 Curitiba, Brazil 27 16
87 76 Fortaleza, Brazil 31 24
84 74 Georgetown, Guyana 29 23
85 67 Goiânia, Brazil 29 20
88 73 Guayaquil, Ecuador 31 23
86 75 Joao Pessoa, Brazil 30 24
57 51 La Paz - El Alto, Bolivia 14 10
78 66 Lima, Peru 26 19
86 72 Maceió, Brazil 30 22
87 74 Manaus, Brazil 31 23
94 70 Maracaibo, Venezuela 35 21
89 64 Maracay, Venezuela 32 18
82 63 Medellín, Colombia 28 17
86 65 Mendoza, Argentina 30 18
83 64 Montevideo, Uruguay 28 18
January temperature averages
High °F Low °F City High °C Low °C
86 75 Natal, Brazil 30 24
85 74 Paramaribo, Suriname 30 23
86 69 Porto Alegre, Brazil 30 21
70 50 Quito, Ecuador 21 10
86 72 Recife, Brazil 30 22
86 74 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 30 23
87 64 Rosario, Argentina 31 18
86 74 Salvador, Brazil 30 24
89 55 Santa Cruz, Bolivia 31 13
85 55 Santiago, Chile 30 13
86 74 Sao Luís, Brazil 30 24
81 66 São Paulo, Brazil 27 19
89 51 Sucre, Bolivia 31 10
90 73 Teresina, Brazil 32 23
88 74 Vitíria, Brazil 31 23
Reference

The temperature data are provided by national meteorological agencies.

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