Climate averages 1991–2020

Angoche weather
in January.

A hot, very wet month: the 3rd warmest and the wettest of the year.

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

Average high 30.5°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 24.8°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 225 mm 24 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Angoche: daytime highs average 30.5°C and nights cool to about 24.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 225 mm of rain on roughly 24 days, which makes January a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 58 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Nampula (142 km away). In January its highs average 29.2°C, 1.3°C cooler than Angoche, with 266 mm of rain.

Among the 22 cities listed in Mozambique, Angoche ranks 6th of 22 for the warmest January highs and 14th of 22 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 22 cities is 29.1°C; Angoche is 1.4°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs fall by 0.3°C to 30.2°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 225 mm to 174 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

Angoche climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Angoche, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	30.5°C24.8°C	24.8°C	225	23.5	13.013 h
February	30.2°C24.7°C	24.7°C	174	20.6	12.613 h
March	29.6°C24.6°C	24.6°C	166	19.9	12.212 h
April	28.8°C23.7°C	23.7°C	65	12.7	11.712 h
May	27.8°C22.1°C	22.1°C	18	5.3	11.411 h
June	26.6°C20.7°C	20.7°C	17	5.9	11.211 h
July	26.1°C19.9°C	19.9°C	14	4.7	11.311 h
August	27.1°C20.0°C	20.0°C	10	3.5	11.612 h
September	28.8°C21.0°C	21.0°C	6.7	1.5	12.012 h
October	30.3°C22.6°C	22.6°C	9.6	2.1	12.512 h
November	31.6°C24.1°C	24.1°C	29	5.3	12.913 h
December	31.5°C24.8°C	24.8°C	108	15.2	13.113 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 Angoche

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