Climate averages 1991–2020
Huambo weather
in January.
A warm, very wet month: one of the coolest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a warm month in Huambo: daytime highs average 23.4°C and nights cool to about 14.4°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the coolest months of the year.
Expect about 206 mm of rain on roughly 21 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 47 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Caála (21 km away). In January its highs average 23.2°C, about as warm as Huambo, with 249 mm of rain.
Among the 47 cities listed in Angola, Huambo ranks joint 43rd of 47 for the warmest January highs and 39th of 47 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 47 cities is 27.8°C; Huambo is 4.4°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 23.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 206 mm to 169 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
Huambo climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 23.4°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 206 | 20.6 | 12.813 h |
| February | 23.8°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 169 | 18.2 | 12.513 h |
| March | 23.6°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 187 | 23.1 | 12.212 h |
| April | 23.8°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 67 | 11.9 | 11.812 h |
| May | 24.6°C11.3°C | 11.3°C | 3.9 | 1.0 | 11.512 h |
| June | 24.4°C9.1°C | 9.1°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 11.411 h |
| July | 24.9°C8.9°C | 8.9°C | 0 | 0.0 | 11.411 h |
| August | 27.5°C11.4°C | 11.4°C | 0.5 | 0.2 | 11.712 h |
| September | 28.8°C13.8°C | 13.8°C | 23 | 3.8 | 12.012 h |
| October | 26.9°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 136 | 18.7 | 12.412 h |
| November | 24.2°C14.8°C | 14.8°C | 216 | 24.6 | 12.713 h |
| December | 23.4°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 222 | 23.4 | 12.913 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
- Caála in JanuaryAngola · 21 kmHigh 23.2°C · Low 14.3°C · 249 mm rain
- Ecunna in JanuaryAngola · 28 kmHigh 23.4°C · Low 14.7°C · 249 mm rain
- Longonjo in JanuaryAngola · 55 kmHigh 24.6°C · Low 15.6°C · 203 mm rain
- Catchiungo in JanuaryAngola · 58 kmHigh 23.0°C · Low 14.3°C · 255 mm rain
- Balombo in JanuaryAngola · 115 kmHigh 26.0°C · Low 17.1°C · 171 mm rain
- Cuíto in JanuaryAngola · 137 kmHigh 23.5°C · Low 15.0°C · 240 mm rain
- Cubal in JanuaryAngola · 165 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 18.3°C · 96 mm rain
- Cela in JanuaryAngola · 165 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 16.5°C · 133 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 Huambo) is explained once on the Huambo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.