Where is it sunny in January?

The most sunshine you can get this month. Ranked from 257 travel destinations using ERA5 climate averages — what January is normally like, not what the weather will do next week.

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Top 20 by January weather

Day and night temperatures are monthly averages of daily highs and lows. Rain is an average across the whole month. Places with the same rating have equally good weather for this; among them, the one covered by more language editions of Wikivoyage, the open travel guide, is listed first. The bar under each place shows its other good months — click one to jump there.
#	Place	Day	Night	Rain	Rating
1	Sydney, Australia	26°C	21°C	3.1 mm/day	Excellent
2	Bangkok, Thailand	32°C	23°C	0.8 mm/day	Excellent
3	Buenos Aires, Argentina	29°C	21°C	1.8 mm/day	Excellent
4	Melbourne, Australia	26°C	16°C	2.5 mm/day	Excellent
5	Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam	32°C	23°C	0.5 mm/day	Excellent
6	Nairobi, Kenya	24°C	14°C	1.6 mm/day	Excellent
7	Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	22°C	10°C	0.5 mm/day	Excellent
8	Santiago, Chile	26°C	16°C	0.5 mm/day	Excellent
9	Cape Town, South Africa	23°C	18°C	0.4 mm/day	Excellent
10	Mumbai, India	29°C	19°C	0.1 mm/day	Excellent
11	Auckland, New Zealand	23°C	17°C	2.3 mm/day	Excellent
12	Siem Reap, Cambodia	31°C	22°C	0.4 mm/day	Excellent
13	Lima, Peru	25°C	19°C	0.9 mm/day	Excellent
14	Montevideo, Uruguay	27°C	20°C	1.9 mm/day	Excellent
15	Wellington, New Zealand	20°C	15°C	1.5 mm/day	Excellent
16	Phnom Penh, Cambodia	32°C	24°C	0.4 mm/day	Excellent
17	Dakar, Senegal	30°C	20°C	0.0 mm/day	Excellent
18	Accra, Ghana	31°C	25°C	0.3 mm/day	Excellent
19	Kampala, Uganda	26°C	18°C	2.8 mm/day	Excellent
20	Recife, Brazil	29°C	25°C	2.6 mm/day	Excellent

What this ranking does and does not tell you

It rates the weather only — daytime and night temperature, rain and sunshine. It says nothing about what there is to see or do, prices, crowds or safety; that part of the decision is yours.

The candidates are 503 established travel destinations, not every town on Earth, so a place missing here may simply not be on the list.

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