Climate averages 1991–2020

Cela weather
in January.

A warm, wet month: the 11th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 25.3°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 16.5°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 133 mm 19 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Cela: daytime highs average 25.3°C and nights cool to about 16.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 133 mm of rain on roughly 19 days, which makes January a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 43 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Gabela (103 km away). In January its highs average 25.2°C, about as warm as Cela, with 107 mm of rain.

Among the 47 cities listed in Angola, Cela ranks 37th of 47 for the warmest January highs and 25th of 47 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 47 cities is 27.8°C; Cela is 2.5°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.8°C to 26.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 133 mm to 114 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Cela climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Cela, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	25.3°C16.5°C	16.5°C	133	18.9	12.713 h
February	26.1°C16.8°C	16.8°C	114	16.4	12.512 h
March	26.0°C16.9°C	16.9°C	166	22.6	12.212 h
April	26.3°C16.3°C	16.3°C	84	15.0	11.912 h
May	28.0°C14.6°C	14.6°C	4.1	1.3	11.612 h
June	28.2°C12.3°C	12.3°C	0.1	0.0	11.511 h
July	28.8°C12.1°C	12.1°C	0	0.0	11.512 h
August	30.5°C14.4°C	14.4°C	2.2	0.7	11.712 h
September	30.3°C16.2°C	16.2°C	36	9.1	12.012 h
October	27.6°C17.4°C	17.4°C	145	26.1	12.312 h
November	25.6°C17.2°C	17.2°C	191	26.6	12.613 h
December	25.0°C16.8°C	16.8°C	158	22.2	12.813 h

Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

Compare places

January in nearby cities

Distance from Cela

Read the numbers correctly

Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Cela) is explained once on the Cela year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.