Climate averages 1991–2020
Abbottabad weather
in January.
A cool, wet month: the coolest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a cool month in Abbottabad: daytime highs average 11.5°C and nights cool to about -0.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 109 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes January a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 09 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Muzaffarābād (34 km away). In January its highs average 13.2°C, 1.7°C warmer than Abbottabad, with 115 mm of rain.
Among the 166 cities listed in Pakistan, Abbottabad ranks joint 161st of 166 for the warmest January highs and 163rd of 166 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 166 cities is 19.5°C; Abbottabad is 8.0°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 1.8°C to 13.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 109 mm to 176 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
Abbottabad climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 11.5°C-0.7°C | -0.7°C | 109 | 8.8 | 10.210 h |
| February | 13.3°C1.1°C | 1.1°C | 176 | 12.3 | 10.911 h |
| March | 17.9°C5.1°C | 5.1°C | 202 | 15.4 | 12.012 h |
| April | 22.9°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 147 | 14.9 | 13.013 h |
| May | 27.8°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 91 | 14.9 | 13.914 h |
| June | 30.3°C17.9°C | 17.9°C | 92 | 13.7 | 14.414 h |
| July | 28.4°C20.3°C | 20.3°C | 227 | 23.5 | 14.214 h |
| August | 27.3°C19.7°C | 19.7°C | 198 | 23.3 | 13.413 h |
| September | 26.5°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 94 | 13.4 | 12.412 h |
| October | 23.4°C10.7°C | 10.7°C | 44 | 7.1 | 11.411 h |
| November | 18.7°C5.5°C | 5.5°C | 49 | 5.4 | 10.410 h |
| December | 14.7°C1.2°C | 1.2°C | 56 | 5.5 | 9.910 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
- Muzaffarābād in JanuaryPakistan · 34 kmHigh 13.2°C · Low 0.2°C · 115 mm rain
- Dhirkot in JanuaryPakistan · 36 kmHigh 6.7°C · Low -4.2°C · 111 mm rain
- Islamabad in JanuaryPakistan · 50 kmHigh 15.4°C · Low 4.0°C · 70 mm rain
- Topi in JanuaryPakistan · 55 kmHigh 15.7°C · Low 4.1°C · 60 mm rain
- Battagram in JanuaryPakistan · 62 kmHigh 8.0°C · Low -0.5°C · 126 mm rain
- Rawalpindi in JanuaryPakistan · 63 kmHigh 15.9°C · Low 3.7°C · 60 mm rain
- Swabi in JanuaryPakistan · 68 kmHigh 15.6°C · Low 3.7°C · 60 mm rain
- Fatehjang in JanuaryPakistan · 83 kmHigh 15.1°C · Low 3.8°C · 60 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 Abbottabad) is explained once on the Abbottabad year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.