Climate averages 1991–2020
Dondo weather
in January.
A hot, very wet month: the 4th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a hot month in Dondo: daytime highs average 30.7°C and nights cool to about 23.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 200 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes January a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 10 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Beira (28 km away). In January its highs average 30.6°C, about as warm as Dondo, with 197 mm of rain.
Among the 22 cities listed in Mozambique, Dondo ranks joint 3rd of 22 for the warmest January highs and 10th of 22 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 22 cities is 29.1°C; Dondo is 1.6°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs fall by 0.2°C to 30.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 200 mm to 158 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
Dondo 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°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 200 | 19.8 | 13.213 h |
| February | 30.4°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 158 | 17.1 | 12.813 h |
| March | 29.9°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 118 | 17.0 | 12.212 h |
| April | 28.5°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 52 | 10.8 | 11.712 h |
| May | 27.4°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 19 | 4.8 | 11.211 h |
| June | 26.0°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 14 | 4.2 | 11.011 h |
| July | 25.5°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 17 | 5.3 | 11.111 h |
| August | 27.7°C16.1°C | 16.1°C | 11 | 3.4 | 11.411 h |
| September | 30.4°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 15 | 3.6 | 12.012 h |
| October | 31.4°C20.2°C | 20.2°C | 25 | 5.9 | 12.513 h |
| November | 32.1°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 78 | 10.0 | 13.013 h |
| December | 31.3°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 178 | 15.7 | 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
- Beira in JanuaryMozambique · 28 kmHigh 30.6°C · Low 24.1°C · 197 mm rain
- Chimoio in JanuaryMozambique · 143 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 20.0°C · 199 mm rain
- Mutare in JanuaryZimbabwe · 229 kmHigh 25.8°C · Low 17.8°C · 201 mm rain
- Quelimane in JanuaryMozambique · 297 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 24.8°C · 222 mm rain
- Mocuba in JanuaryMozambique · 389 kmHigh 30.7°C · Low 23.0°C · 252 mm rain
- Tete in JanuaryMozambique · 403 kmHigh 31.6°C · Low 24.1°C · 217 mm rain
- Masvingo in JanuaryZimbabwe · 413 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 17.8°C · 127 mm rain
- Ruwa in JanuaryZimbabwe · 415 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 15.7°C · 206 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 Dondo) is explained once on the Dondo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.