Climate averages 1991–2020

Gurúè weather
in January.

A warm, very wet month: the 5th warmest and the wettest of the year.

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

Average high 27.5°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 20.3°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 372 mm 27 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Gurúè: daytime highs average 27.5°C and nights cool to about 20.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 372 mm of rain on roughly 27 days, which makes January a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 56 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Cuamba (88 km away). In January its highs average 28.5°C, 1.0°C warmer than Gurúè, with 257 mm of rain.

Among the 22 cities listed in Mozambique, Gurúè ranks joint 19th of 22 for the warmest January highs and 22nd of 22 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 22 cities is 29.1°C; Gurúè is 1.6°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs fall by 0.1°C to 27.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 372 mm to 252 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

Gurúè climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Gurúè, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	27.5°C20.3°C	20.3°C	372	27.0	12.913 h
February	27.4°C20.1°C	20.1°C	252	21.4	12.613 h
March	27.0°C19.8°C	19.8°C	193	20.4	12.212 h
April	25.7°C18.2°C	18.2°C	87	14.3	11.812 h
May	24.4°C16.0°C	16.0°C	28	6.9	11.411 h
June	22.6°C14.3°C	14.3°C	28	7.4	11.211 h
July	22.1°C13.5°C	13.5°C	35	8.1	11.311 h
August	24.8°C14.3°C	14.3°C	21	4.9	11.612 h
September	28.4°C16.6°C	16.6°C	15	3.3	12.012 h
October	30.1°C18.8°C	18.8°C	37	5.8	12.412 h
November	30.2°C20.1°C	20.1°C	111	12.5	12.813 h
December	28.4°C20.3°C	20.3°C	289	23.5	13.013 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 Gurúè

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