Climate averages 1991–2020
Bela Bela weather
in January.
A hot, wet month: the joint 2nd warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a hot month in Bela Bela: daytime highs average 28.8°C and nights cool to about 18.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 97 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes January a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 29 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Hammanskraal (58 km away). In January its highs average 29.3°C, 0.5°C warmer than Bela Bela, with 98 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Bela Bela ranks joint 19th of 95 for the warmest January highs and joint 34th of 95 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 95 cities is 27.0°C; Bela Bela is 1.8°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 28.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 97 mm to 78 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
Bela Bela climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 28.8°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 97 | 12.5 | 13.513 h |
| February | 28.8°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 78 | 8.8 | 12.913 h |
| March | 27.5°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 76 | 9.0 | 12.212 h |
| April | 25.1°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 35 | 5.2 | 11.512 h |
| May | 23.0°C10.0°C | 10.0°C | 13 | 2.2 | 10.911 h |
| June | 20.5°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 5.1 | 0.9 | 10.611 h |
| July | 20.5°C6.2°C | 6.2°C | 2.6 | 0.6 | 10.711 h |
| August | 24.2°C9.0°C | 9.0°C | 3.7 | 0.9 | 11.211 h |
| September | 28.3°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 13 | 1.9 | 11.912 h |
| October | 29.4°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 49 | 7.8 | 12.713 h |
| November | 28.8°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 89 | 11.8 | 13.313 h |
| December | 28.7°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 114 | 14.4 | 13.614 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
- Hammanskraal in JanuarySouth Africa · 58 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 18.5°C · 98 mm rain
- Soshanguve in JanuarySouth Africa · 68 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 18.2°C · 95 mm rain
- Somaroboro in JanuarySouth Africa · 76 kmHigh 27.4°C · Low 16.9°C · 94 mm rain
- Ga-Rankuwa in JanuarySouth Africa · 87 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 17.7°C · 95 mm rain
- Pretoria in JanuarySouth Africa · 96 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 17.1°C · 103 mm rain
- Brits in JanuarySouth Africa · 98 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 18.6°C · 97 mm rain
- Mokopane in JanuarySouth Africa · 106 kmHigh 28.7°C · Low 18.0°C · 112 mm rain
- Centurion in JanuarySouth Africa · 109 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 16.4°C · 103 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 Bela Bela) is explained once on the Bela Bela year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.