Monday, December 26, 2016

What's the Hottest Weather Temperature Ever Recorded in Los Angeles in January?

The coldest month of the year in Los Angeles is January which has an average daily temperature of just 58.3 degrees. But what is the hottest temperature ever recorded in Los Angeles in January the coldest month of the year in the city?



Weather temperatures have officially been kept in Los Angeles, California since 1877. So the hottest temperature record for January in Los Angeles is from 1877 until the present day.

What's the Hottest Weather Temperature Ever Recorded in Los Angeles in January?

  • 95 degrees on January 18, 1971 

That's right the hottest temperature ever recorded in Los Angeles in the month of January is a sweltering 95 degrees. That record hottest temperature for the month of January in Los Angeles was set on January 18, 1971.

How unusual is a 90 degree weather temperature day in Los Angeles? Since 1877, there have actually been six times when the temperature reached 90 degrees or above in January in Los Angeles. 

When was the last time it was 90 degrees in Los Angeles in January? That was on January 31, 2003, when the temperature reached a hot 91 degrees. 

Interestingly, the record temperature of 95 degrees for January in Los Angeles is a full 8 degrees hotter than the record hottest temperature in January for Death Valley. The hottest weather temperature record for Death Valley in January is 87 degrees.

Every day in Los Angeles has had at least one year when the temperature reached at least 81 degrees. So it can certainly get warm in the City of Angels in the month of January.

Will the temperature rise to 90 degrees or above this January in Los Angeles? Since it has only happened 6 times since 1877 the odds are pretty high that it will not be 90 degrees or above this January in Los Angeles but since it has happened in the past it could happen this year too.

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