Climate averages 1991–2020
Maun weather
in January.
A hot, wet month: the 5th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a hot month in Maun: daytime highs average 30.7°C and nights cool to about 20.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 145 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes January a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 11 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Livingstone (350 km away). In January its highs average 28.2°C, 2.4°C cooler than Maun, with 208 mm of rain.
Among the 5 cities listed in Botswana, Maun ranks 3rd of 5 for the warmest January highs and 5th of 5 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 5 cities is 30.4°C; Maun is 0.2°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs fall by 0.3°C to 30.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 145 mm to 105 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
Maun climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 30.7°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 145 | 15.6 | 13.213 h |
| February | 30.3°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 105 | 13.5 | 12.813 h |
| March | 30.2°C19.3°C | 19.3°C | 71 | 10.0 | 12.212 h |
| April | 29.5°C16.7°C | 16.7°C | 16 | 2.8 | 11.712 h |
| May | 27.6°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 2.3 | 0.6 | 11.211 h |
| June | 24.8°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 2.5 | 0.2 | 10.911 h |
| July | 24.4°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 0.4 | 0.1 | 11.011 h |
| August | 28.3°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 0.1 | 0.0 | 11.411 h |
| September | 32.6°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 2.8 | 0.7 | 12.012 h |
| October | 35.1°C19.6°C | 19.6°C | 10 | 2.7 | 12.513 h |
| November | 33.6°C20.3°C | 20.3°C | 55 | 9.4 | 13.013 h |
| December | 31.7°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 101 | 15.0 | 13.313 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
- Livingstone in JanuaryZambia · 350 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 19.8°C · 208 mm rain
- Francistown in JanuaryBotswana · 446 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 19.6°C · 95 mm rain
- Rundu in JanuaryNamibia · 447 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 19.6°C · 165 mm rain
- Choma in JanuaryZambia · 516 kmHigh 24.8°C · Low 17.5°C · 222 mm rain
- Mongu in JanuaryZambia · 527 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 19.4°C · 262 mm rain
- Molepolole in JanuaryBotswana · 536 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 19.3°C · 80 mm rain
- Bulawayo in JanuaryZimbabwe · 540 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 17.1°C · 134 mm rain
- Mogoditshane in JanuaryBotswana · 574 kmHigh 30.9°C · Low 19.9°C · 78 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 Maun) is explained once on the Maun year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.