Climate averages 1991–2020

Thika weather
in January.

A warm, moderately wet month: the 3rd warmest and the 5th driest of the year.

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

Average high 25.1°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 14.2°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 41 mm 8 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Thika: daytime highs average 25.1°C and nights cool to about 14.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 41 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the 5th 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 Ruiru (17 km away). In January its highs average 25.1°C, about as warm as Thika, with 30 mm of rain.

Among the 37 cities listed in Kenya, Thika ranks joint 23rd of 37 for the warmest January highs and joint 22nd of 37 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 37 cities is 27.3°C; Thika is 2.1°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 1.6°C to 26.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 41 mm to 31 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

Thika climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Thika, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	25.1°C14.2°C	14.2°C	41	8.3	12.212 h
February	26.7°C14.6°C	14.6°C	31	5.8	12.112 h
March	26.4°C15.5°C	15.5°C	75	14.1	12.112 h
April	24.4°C15.9°C	15.9°C	179	25.0	12.112 h
May	23.4°C15.1°C	15.1°C	136	20.6	12.112 h
June	22.4°C13.9°C	13.9°C	53	10.9	12.112 h
July	21.8°C12.9°C	12.9°C	26	7.0	12.112 h
August	22.5°C13.2°C	13.2°C	32	8.9	12.112 h
September	24.7°C13.7°C	13.7°C	23	6.2	12.112 h
October	25.0°C14.9°C	14.9°C	85	14.4	12.112 h
November	23.0°C15.0°C	15.0°C	161	23.8	12.212 h
December	23.5°C14.4°C	14.4°C	72	15.5	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 Thika

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