Climate averages 1991–2020

Gwadar weather
in January.

A warm, fairly dry month: the coolest and the wettest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule

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

Average high 22.9°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 16.9°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 21 mm 3 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Gwadar: daytime highs average 22.9°C and nights cool to about 16.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 21 mm of rain on roughly 3 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 46 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Turbat (122 km away). In January its highs average 23.8°C, 0.9°C warmer than Gwadar, with 21 mm of rain.

Among the 166 cities listed in Pakistan, Gwadar ranks joint 26th of 166 for the warmest January highs and joint 102nd of 166 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 166 cities is 19.5°C; Gwadar is 3.4°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 1.1°C to 24.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 21 mm to 8.5 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

Gwadar climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Gwadar, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	22.9°C16.9°C	16.9°C	21	2.5	10.811 h
February	24.0°C17.8°C	17.8°C	8.5	1.4	11.311 h
March	26.4°C20.2°C	20.2°C	13	1.4	12.012 h
April	29.8°C23.6°C	23.6°C	3.3	0.4	12.713 h
May	32.1°C26.6°C	26.6°C	0	0.0	13.413 h
June	32.1°C27.6°C	27.6°C	6.8	0.3	13.714 h
July	30.6°C27.2°C	27.2°C	3.2	0.3	13.514 h
August	29.6°C26.1°C	26.1°C	3.6	0.4	13.013 h
September	29.6°C25.1°C	25.1°C	0.1	0.0	12.312 h
October	30.1°C23.9°C	23.9°C	2.0	0.2	11.612 h
November	27.8°C21.1°C	21.1°C	9.1	0.7	10.911 h
December	24.7°C18.2°C	18.2°C	13	1.5	10.611 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 Gwadar

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