Climate averages 1991–2020

Mianwali weather
in January.

A mild, fairly dry month: the coolest and the 5th driest of the year.

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

Average high 17.3°C Daytime mean, January
Average low 6.5°C Night-time mean, January
Rainfall 25 mm 4 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 10 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
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January is a mild month in Mianwali: daytime highs average 17.3°C and nights cool to about 6.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 25 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 10 h 16 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Paharpur (74 km away). In January its highs average 18.6°C, 1.3°C warmer than Mianwali, with 19 mm of rain.

Among the 166 cities listed in Pakistan, Mianwali ranks joint 138th of 166 for the warmest January highs and joint 116th of 166 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 166 cities is 19.5°C; Mianwali is 2.2°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 2.4°C to 19.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 25 mm to 51 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 051015202530354045 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 2000

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Mianwali climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Mianwali, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January, selected 17.3°C6.5°C6.5°C254.210.310 h
February 19.7°C8.6°C8.6°C515.911.011 h
March 24.7°C13.1°C13.1°C597.612.012 h
April 31.2°C18.2°C18.2°C456.313.013 h
May 37.2°C23.3°C23.3°C215.113.814 h
June 39.1°C27.3°C27.3°C537.314.314 h
July 35.6°C27.5°C27.5°C15416.114.114 h
August 33.8°C26.5°C26.5°C15616.213.313 h
September 32.9°C24.5°C24.5°C658.912.412 h
October 30.2°C19.2°C19.2°C233.711.411 h
November 24.5°C13.2°C13.2°C152.410.511 h
December 19.7°C8.2°C8.2°C142.210.110 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 Mianwali

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