Climate averages 1991–2020
Maputo weather
in January.
A hot, wet month: the 2nd warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a hot month in Maputo: daytime highs average 28.2°C and nights cool to about 22.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 115 mm of rain on roughly 12 days, which makes January a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 34 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Matola (12 km away). In January its highs average 28.8°C, 0.7°C warmer than Maputo, with 115 mm of rain.
Among the 22 cities listed in Mozambique, Maputo ranks 18th of 22 for the warmest January highs and joint 3rd of 22 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 22 cities is 29.1°C; Maputo is 0.9°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 28.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 115 mm to 95 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
Maputo climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 28.2°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 115 | 11.9 | 13.614 h |
| February | 28.4°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 95 | 10.6 | 13.013 h |
| March | 27.9°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 73 | 10.2 | 12.312 h |
| April | 26.4°C20.0°C | 20.0°C | 42 | 6.5 | 11.511 h |
| May | 25.1°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 23 | 3.3 | 10.911 h |
| June | 23.6°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 12 | 2.5 | 10.511 h |
| July | 23.0°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 11 | 2.6 | 10.711 h |
| August | 24.3°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 13 | 2.5 | 11.211 h |
| September | 25.7°C17.9°C | 17.9°C | 31 | 3.8 | 11.912 h |
| October | 25.8°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 51 | 6.8 | 12.713 h |
| November | 26.8°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 91 | 9.9 | 13.413 h |
| December | 27.9°C21.9°C | 21.9°C | 103 | 10.3 | 13.714 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
- Matola in JanuaryMozambique · 12 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 22.5°C · 115 mm rain
- Ressano Garcia in JanuaryMozambique · 83 kmHigh 30.9°C · Low 22.1°C · 99 mm rain
- Manzini in JanuaryEswatini · 134 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 18.5°C · 131 mm rain
- Xai-Xai in JanuaryMozambique · 147 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 23.6°C · 130 mm rain
- Mbabane in JanuaryEswatini · 150 kmHigh 24.4°C · Low 16.2°C · 216 mm rain
- Mbombela in JanuarySouth Africa · 171 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 18.9°C · 155 mm rain
- Chibuto in JanuaryMozambique · 171 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 22.5°C · 112 mm rain
- Piet Retief in JanuarySouth Africa · 211 kmHigh 24.8°C · Low 15.5°C · 144 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 Maputo) is explained once on the Maputo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Matola lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.