January Temperature Averages for Cities in South America

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

January Temperature Averages for South American Cities

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