Climate averages 1991–2020
Botshabelo weather
in January.
A hot, wet month: the warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a hot month in Botshabelo: daytime highs average 29.0°C and nights cool to about 16.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 102 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 13 h 47 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Thaba Nchu (13 km away). In January its highs average 28.3°C, 0.7°C cooler than Botshabelo, with 102 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Botshabelo ranks joint 17th of 95 for the warmest January highs and joint 44th of 95 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 95 cities is 27.0°C; Botshabelo is 2.0°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs fall by 1.1°C to 27.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 102 mm to 87 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
Botshabelo climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 29.0°C16.1°C | 16.1°C | 102 | 13.5 | 13.814 h |
| February | 27.9°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 87 | 13.0 | 13.113 h |
| March | 25.9°C13.6°C | 13.6°C | 82 | 11.2 | 12.312 h |
| April | 22.1°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 52 | 7.7 | 11.411 h |
| May | 19.0°C5.4°C | 5.4°C | 21 | 3.4 | 10.711 h |
| June | 15.8°C1.8°C | 1.8°C | 13 | 2.0 | 10.310 h |
| July | 16.1°C1.3°C | 1.3°C | 8.4 | 1.7 | 10.510 h |
| August | 19.3°C3.7°C | 3.7°C | 18 | 2.6 | 11.111 h |
| September | 24.0°C7.8°C | 7.8°C | 16 | 2.8 | 11.912 h |
| October | 26.1°C10.9°C | 10.9°C | 53 | 7.7 | 12.813 h |
| November | 27.2°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 77 | 9.2 | 13.614 h |
| December | 28.7°C14.9°C | 14.9°C | 88 | 11.6 | 14.014 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
- Thaba Nchu in JanuarySouth Africa · 13 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 15.7°C · 102 mm rain
- Bloemfontein in JanuarySouth Africa · 52 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 16.8°C · 82 mm rain
- Maseru in JanuaryLesotho · 74 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 14.5°C · 143 mm rain
- Virginia in JanuarySouth Africa · 130 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 17.3°C · 92 mm rain
- Welkom in JanuarySouth Africa · 143 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 17.0°C · 92 mm rain
- Odendaalsrus in JanuarySouth Africa · 155 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 17.2°C · 94 mm rain
- Kutloanong in JanuarySouth Africa · 159 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 17.2°C · 94 mm rain
- Kroonstad in JanuarySouth Africa · 187 kmHigh 28.6°C · Low 16.6°C · 101 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 Botshabelo) is explained once on the Botshabelo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Thaba Nchu lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.