Climate averages 1991–2020

Tete weather
in January.

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

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

Average high 31.6°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 24.1°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 217 mm 20 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Tete: daytime highs average 31.6°C and nights cool to about 24.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 5th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 217 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 12 h 58 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Blantyre (158 km away). In January its highs average 25.5°C, 6.1°C cooler than Tete, with 321 mm of rain.

Among the 22 cities listed in Mozambique, Tete ranks 1st of 22 for the warmest January highs and 12th of 22 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 22 cities is 29.1°C; Tete is 2.5°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs fall by 0.2°C to 31.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 217 mm to 148 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

Tete climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Tete, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	31.6°C24.1°C	24.1°C	217	20.3	13.013 h
February	31.3°C23.8°C	23.8°C	148	15.2	12.613 h
March	31.6°C23.5°C	23.5°C	71	10.9	12.212 h
April	31.4°C22.0°C	22.0°C	17	3.4	11.712 h
May	29.9°C19.7°C	19.7°C	3.3	0.6	11.411 h
June	27.9°C17.8°C	17.8°C	2.7	0.6	11.211 h
July	27.3°C17.1°C	17.1°C	3.1	0.9	11.311 h
August	30.1°C18.4°C	18.4°C	1.6	0.3	11.612 h
September	33.7°C20.9°C	20.9°C	2.3	0.4	12.012 h
October	35.7°C23.3°C	23.3°C	6.6	1.1	12.412 h
November	36.4°C24.9°C	24.9°C	41	5.7	12.913 h
December	33.4°C24.5°C	24.5°C	144	16.0	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 Tete

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