Average Precipitation for Mississippi in January

The tables below give monthly averages for rainfall plus snowfall during January at cities, communities and other locations around Mississippi.

Each place has a total for the amount of precipitation it usually receives this month along with information on the number of days with wet weather. The count of days includes those when precipitation amounts to 0.01 inches (0.25 millimetres) or more.

The precipitation totals are averages based on weather data collected from 1991 to 2020 for the US National Centers for Environmental Information.

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

Mississippi Gulf Coast

Average monthly precipitation in January
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
10	Biloxi	5.4	136
11	Gulfport	5.8	147
9	Pascagoula	5.5	139
9	Picayune	6.4	162

Southern Mississippi

January averages for total rainfall plus snowfall
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
11	Hattiesburg	6.5	165
11	Laurel	6.1	154
11	McComb	6.4	163
11	Natchez	6.2	158

Central Mississippi

Average amount of rain and snow in January
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
10	Columbus	5.5	138
9	Greenville	4.5	114
10	Greenwood	4.5	115
10	Jackson	5.4	138
10	Meridian	5.6	142
11	Starkville	5.5	139
10	Vicksburg	6.4	162

Northern Mississippi

Precipitation totals for January
Days	Place	Inches	Millimetres
10	Clarksdale	5.5	139
10	Corinth City	4.9	124
10	Grenada	5.1	129
11	Holly Springs	4.7	119
12	Oxford	5.1	130
10	Tunica	4.7	118
11	Tupelo	4.8	122

Average Precipitation for Mississippi in January

Mississippi Gulf Coast

Southern Mississippi

Central Mississippi

Northern Mississippi

Reference

More Mississippi Weather Information