Climate averages 1991–2020

Godomè weather
in January.

A hot, fairly dry month: the 4th warmest and the driest of the year.

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

Average high 29.8°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 25.1°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 25 mm 8 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Godomè: daytime highs average 29.8°C and nights cool to about 25.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 25 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 48 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Cotonou (8 km away). In January its highs average 29.4°C, about as warm as Godomè, with 21 mm of rain.

Among the 8 cities listed in Benin, Godomè ranks joint 6th of 8 for the warmest January highs and 6th of 8 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 8 cities is 32.2°C; Godomè is 2.4°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.5°C to 30.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 25 mm to 37 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

Godomè climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Godomè, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	29.8°C25.1°C	25.1°C	25	7.8	11.812 h
February	30.3°C26.0°C	26.0°C	37	9.5	11.912 h
March	30.5°C26.6°C	26.6°C	66	15.7	12.112 h
April	30.2°C26.4°C	26.4°C	90	17.6	12.312 h
May	29.3°C25.7°C	25.7°C	166	24.5	12.412 h
June	27.7°C24.6°C	24.6°C	215	25.7	12.512 h
July	26.7°C23.8°C	23.8°C	126	20.9	12.512 h
August	26.4°C23.4°C	23.4°C	96	17.0	12.312 h
September	27.1°C23.9°C	23.9°C	141	22.7	12.212 h
October	28.1°C24.6°C	24.6°C	150	25.2	12.012 h
November	29.2°C25.5°C	25.5°C	74	18.9	11.812 h
December	29.7°C25.5°C	25.5°C	33	9.2	11.812 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 Godomè

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