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Best cities to visit in January (2026)

25 cities score best for January on the visit score, which weighs temperature, rain and sunshine from the Open-Meteo climate record. Dubai leads at 10 out of 10, with a daily average of 20 °C and 19 mm of rain that month. The median mid-range daily cost across the list is $60.

Ordered by that month's visit score, highest first.
#	City	Country	Average high	Average low	Rain	Visit score
1	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	24.6 °C	14.7 °C	19 mm	10.0 / 10
2	Cape Town	South Africa	25.9 °C	17.0 °C	9 mm	10.0 / 10
3	Mumbai	India	30.3 °C	19.4 °C	1 mm	10.0 / 10
4	Lima	Peru	24.2 °C	19.7 °C	9 mm	10.0 / 10
5	Karachi	Pakistan	24.6 °C	14.2 °C	1 mm	10.0 / 10
6	Dhaka	Bangladesh	24.6 °C	13.3 °C	3 mm	10.0 / 10
7	Bengaluru	India	27.6 °C	15.9 °C	6 mm	10.0 / 10
8	Hyderabad	India	28.8 °C	17.3 °C	1 mm	10.0 / 10
9	Ahmedabad	India	28.0 °C	14.9 °C	1 mm	10.0 / 10
10	Kano	Nigeria	29.5 °C	14.8 °C	0 mm	10.0 / 10
11	Santiago	Chile	30.7 °C	15.7 °C	0 mm	10.0 / 10
12	Chennai	India	28.3 °C	22.4 °C	31 mm	10.0 / 10
13	Kolkata	India	25.4 °C	14.5 °C	23 mm	10.0 / 10
14	Surat	India	30.3 °C	16.7 °C	0 mm	10.0 / 10
15	Yangon	Myanmar	31.0 °C	19.6 °C	9 mm	10.0 / 10
16	Chattogram	Bangladesh	26.1 °C	14.1 °C	4 mm	10.0 / 10
17	Pune	India	30.0 °C	15.9 °C	2 mm	10.0 / 10
18	Kaohsiung	Taiwan	23.2 °C	15.5 °C	14 mm	10.0 / 10
19	Gazipur	Bangladesh	24.7 °C	12.3 °C	2 mm	10.0 / 10
20	Dakar	Senegal	28.3 °C	20.6 °C	4 mm	10.0 / 10
21	Nagpur	India	28.6 °C	15.8 °C	4 mm	10.0 / 10
22	Perth	Australia	30.7 °C	19.7 °C	1 mm	10.0 / 10
23	Coimbatore	India	29.8 °C	20.2 °C	39 mm	10.0 / 10
24	Indore	India	25.1 °C	12.6 °C	13 mm	10.0 / 10
25	Tainan	Taiwan	23.0 °C	13.4 °C	14 mm	10.0 / 10

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Sources

GeoNames city database — CC BY 4.0, fetched September 14, 2026
Open-Meteo climate archive — CC BY 4.0, fetched September 21, 2026

Dates are the most recent fetch across the cities on this page. Every sentence here is generated from the data by rule, with no AI writing; the formulas are public.