Climate averages 1991–2020

Migori weather
in January.

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

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

Average high 26.5°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 16.6°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 116 mm 17 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Migori: daytime highs average 26.5°C and nights cool to about 16.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 6th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 116 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes January a wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 10 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Tarime (34 km away). In January its highs average 26.7°C, about as warm as Migori, with 100 mm of rain.

Among the 37 cities listed in Kenya, Migori ranks joint 16th of 37 for the warmest January highs and joint 35th of 37 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 37 cities is 27.3°C; Migori is 0.8°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 1.3°C to 27.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 116 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

Migori climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Migori, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	26.5°C16.6°C	16.6°C	116	17.0	12.212 h
February	27.8°C17.1°C	17.1°C	86	13.2	12.112 h
March	27.5°C17.2°C	17.2°C	155	18.9	12.112 h
April	26.5°C17.0°C	17.0°C	232	22.6	12.112 h
May	26.2°C17.0°C	17.0°C	151	18.4	12.112 h
June	26.0°C16.5°C	16.5°C	55	11.7	12.112 h
July	26.4°C16.2°C	16.2°C	31	7.9	12.112 h
August	27.1°C16.6°C	16.6°C	51	10.2	12.112 h
September	28.0°C17.1°C	17.1°C	67	11.9	12.112 h
October	27.8°C17.2°C	17.2°C	130	16.2	12.112 h
November	26.2°C16.6°C	16.6°C	218	23.0	12.212 h
December	25.9°C16.4°C	16.4°C	169	21.5	12.212 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 Migori

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