Climate averages 1991–2020

Bhisho weather
in January.

A warm, wet month: one of the warmest and the wettest of the year.

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

Average high 26.1°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 16.2°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 117 mm 14 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Bhisho: daytime highs average 26.1°C and nights cool to about 16.2°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.

Expect about 117 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes January a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 14 h 03 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Qonce (6 km away). In January its highs average 26.6°C, 0.5°C warmer than Bhisho, with 78 mm of rain.

Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Bhisho ranks joint 54th of 95 for the warmest January highs and 58th of 95 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 95 cities is 27.0°C; Bhisho is 0.9°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs stay level at 26.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 117 mm to 111 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

Bhisho climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Bhisho, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	26.1°C16.2°C	16.2°C	117	14.2	14.014 h
February	26.1°C16.6°C	16.6°C	111	13.0	13.313 h
March	25.2°C15.3°C	15.3°C	108	12.3	12.312 h
April	23.1°C12.5°C	12.5°C	84	9.5	11.311 h
May	21.8°C9.9°C	9.9°C	28	4.9	10.510 h
June	19.9°C7.1°C	7.1°C	25	3.4	10.010 h
July	20.0°C6.7°C	6.7°C	27	4.2	10.210 h
August	20.7°C7.8°C	7.8°C	41	5.9	10.911 h
September	22.1°C9.6°C	9.6°C	56	8.0	11.912 h
October	22.5°C11.4°C	11.4°C	86	11.9	12.913 h
November	23.5°C12.8°C	12.8°C	99	11.8	13.814 h
December	25.0°C15.0°C	15.0°C	114	13.8	14.314 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 Bhisho

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