Climate averages 1991–2020

Malanje weather
in January.

A warm, moderately wet month: the 10th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.

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

Average high 27.2°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 18.0°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 83 mm 15 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Malanje: daytime highs average 27.2°C and nights cool to about 18.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 83 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 37 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Bailundo (38 km away). In January its highs average 27.3°C, about as warm as Malanje, with 74 mm of rain.

Among the 47 cities listed in Angola, Malanje ranks 31st of 47 for the warmest January highs and 19th of 47 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 47 cities is 27.8°C; Malanje is 0.6°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 1.0°C to 28.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 83 mm to 86 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

Malanje climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Malanje, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	27.2°C18.0°C	18.0°C	83	14.6	12.613 h
February	28.3°C18.3°C	18.3°C	86	13.2	12.412 h
March	27.8°C18.3°C	18.3°C	157	20.8	12.212 h
April	27.3°C18.2°C	18.2°C	132	19.6	11.912 h
May	29.1°C17.2°C	17.2°C	14	3.0	11.712 h
June	29.7°C14.6°C	14.6°C	0.4	0.1	11.612 h
July	30.3°C13.9°C	13.9°C	0	0.0	11.612 h
August	31.2°C15.3°C	15.3°C	4.1	1.2	11.812 h
September	30.8°C16.8°C	16.8°C	50	12.5	12.012 h
October	28.9°C17.7°C	17.7°C	161	25.3	12.312 h
November	26.9°C18.0°C	18.0°C	184	24.4	12.513 h
December	26.5°C17.9°C	17.9°C	131	19.2	12.713 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 Malanje

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 Malanje) is explained once on the Malanje year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.