Climate averages 1991–2020

Menongue weather
in January.

A warm, wet month: the 10th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.

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

Average high 26.2°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 16.9°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 172 mm 21 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Menongue: daytime highs average 26.2°C and nights cool to about 16.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 172 mm of rain on roughly 21 days, which makes January a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 53 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Cuíto (266 km away). In January its highs average 23.5°C, 2.7°C cooler than Menongue, with 240 mm of rain.

Among the 47 cities listed in Angola, Menongue ranks 35th of 47 for the warmest January highs and 34th of 47 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 47 cities is 27.8°C; Menongue is 1.6°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs fall by 0.2°C to 26.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 172 mm to 166 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

Menongue climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Menongue, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	26.2°C16.9°C	16.9°C	172	21.2	12.913 h
February	26.0°C16.8°C	16.8°C	166	19.5	12.613 h
March	25.9°C16.6°C	16.6°C	167	21.5	12.212 h
April	26.7°C14.9°C	14.9°C	40	7.7	11.812 h
May	27.4°C12.4°C	12.4°C	1.6	0.4	11.411 h
June	26.3°C9.3°C	9.3°C	0	0.0	11.311 h
July	26.5°C8.8°C	8.8°C	0	0.0	11.311 h
August	29.9°C11.8°C	11.8°C	0.2	0.1	11.612 h
September	32.7°C15.2°C	15.2°C	5.5	1.5	12.012 h
October	32.4°C17.2°C	17.2°C	42	9.4	12.412 h
November	28.7°C17.1°C	17.1°C	128	19.4	12.813 h
December	26.7°C17.2°C	17.2°C	191	22.5	13.013 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 Menongue

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