Climate averages 1991–2020

Likasi weather
in January.

A warm, very wet month: the coolest and the wettest of the year.

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

Average high 25.3°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 17.1°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 269 mm 29 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Likasi: daytime highs average 25.3°C and nights cool to about 17.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 269 mm of rain on roughly 29 days, which makes January a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 41 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Kambove (20 km away). In January its highs average 24.7°C, 0.6°C cooler than Likasi, with 261 mm of rain.

Among the 60 cities listed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Likasi ranks 55th of 60 for the warmest January highs and 57th of 60 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 60 cities is 28.8°C; Likasi is 3.4°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.3°C to 25.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 269 mm to 227 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

Likasi climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Likasi, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	25.3°C17.1°C	17.1°C	269	28.5	12.713 h
February	25.6°C17.2°C	17.2°C	227	24.4	12.512 h
March	25.6°C17.2°C	17.2°C	200	24.8	12.212 h
April	25.6°C16.4°C	16.4°C	51	9.7	11.912 h
May	26.9°C15.1°C	15.1°C	2.6	0.6	11.612 h
June	25.8°C12.8°C	12.8°C	0	0.0	11.511 h
July	25.7°C12.2°C	12.2°C	0	0.0	11.512 h
August	28.5°C14.6°C	14.6°C	0	0.0	11.812 h
September	31.0°C17.3°C	17.3°C	3.5	1.0	12.012 h
October	31.0°C18.5°C	18.5°C	37	7.0	12.312 h
November	27.8°C17.6°C	17.6°C	145	21.5	12.613 h
December	25.6°C17.1°C	17.1°C	234	27.4	12.813 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 Likasi

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