Climate averages 1991–2020
Chitato weather
in January.
A hot, wet month: the 10th warmest and the joint 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a hot month in Chitato: daytime highs average 28.2°C and nights cool to about 20.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 170 mm of rain on roughly 23 days, which makes January a wet month (the joint 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 30 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Dundo (12 km away). In January its highs average 28.5°C, about as warm as Chitato, with 170 mm of rain.
Among the 47 cities listed in Angola, Chitato ranks joint 19th of 47 for the warmest January highs and joint 31st of 47 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 47 cities is 27.8°C; Chitato is 0.4°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.6°C to 28.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 170 mm to 149 mm.
The annual picture
January in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Chitato climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 28.2°C20.0°C | 20.0°C | 170 | 23.1 | 12.512 h |
| February | 28.8°C20.2°C | 20.2°C | 149 | 20.4 | 12.312 h |
| March | 28.7°C20.2°C | 20.2°C | 190 | 24.5 | 12.112 h |
| April | 28.9°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 178 | 21.9 | 11.912 h |
| May | 31.2°C19.5°C | 19.5°C | 36 | 6.8 | 11.812 h |
| June | 32.7°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 4.2 | 0.8 | 11.712 h |
| July | 33.3°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 0.6 | 0.2 | 11.712 h |
| August | 32.6°C19.6°C | 19.6°C | 31 | 6.0 | 11.912 h |
| September | 30.4°C20.2°C | 20.2°C | 106 | 16.9 | 12.112 h |
| October | 28.9°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 170 | 24.3 | 12.312 h |
| November | 27.9°C19.8°C | 19.8°C | 207 | 26.6 | 12.412 h |
| December | 27.6°C19.8°C | 19.8°C | 212 | 26.1 | 12.513 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
- Dundo in JanuaryAngola · 12 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 20.2°C · 170 mm rain
- Tshikapa in JanuaryDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 99 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 21.7°C · 137 mm rain
- Lucapa in JanuaryAngola · 124 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 18.9°C · 208 mm rain
- Kananga in JanuaryDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 243 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 20.6°C · 131 mm rain
- Saurimo in JanuaryAngola · 265 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 18.3°C · 212 mm rain
- Mweka in JanuaryDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 287 kmHigh 28.6°C · Low 21.2°C · 143 mm rain
- Idiofa in JanuaryDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 289 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 20.2°C · 128 mm rain
- Mwene-Ditu in JanuaryDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 302 kmHigh 27.7°C · Low 19.0°C · 179 mm rain
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 limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Chitato) is explained once on the Chitato year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Dundo lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.