Climate averages 1991–2020
Brits weather
in January.
A hot, wet month: the 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 Brits: daytime highs average 29.1°C and nights cool to about 18.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 97 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes January a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 32 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ga-Rankuwa (22 km away). In January its highs average 28.3°C, 0.8°C cooler than Brits, with 95 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Brits ranks 16th 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; Brits is 2.1°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs fall by 0.1°C to 29.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 97 mm to 89 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
Brits climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 29.1°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 97 | 14.2 | 13.514 h |
| February | 29.0°C18.5°C | 18.5°C | 89 | 11.2 | 13.013 h |
| March | 27.5°C16.9°C | 16.9°C | 76 | 10.0 | 12.312 h |
| April | 24.9°C13.5°C | 13.5°C | 36 | 5.7 | 11.512 h |
| May | 22.7°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 16 | 2.5 | 10.911 h |
| June | 20.1°C6.2°C | 6.2°C | 6.5 | 1.1 | 10.611 h |
| July | 20.3°C5.8°C | 5.8°C | 2.8 | 0.5 | 10.711 h |
| August | 23.6°C8.5°C | 8.5°C | 6.3 | 1.3 | 11.211 h |
| September | 27.8°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 16 | 2.2 | 11.912 h |
| October | 29.0°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 55 | 7.2 | 12.713 h |
| November | 28.7°C16.6°C | 16.6°C | 85 | 11.1 | 13.313 h |
| December | 28.8°C17.9°C | 17.9°C | 113 | 14.7 | 13.714 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
- Ga-Rankuwa in JanuarySouth Africa · 22 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 17.7°C · 95 mm rain
- Soshanguve in JanuarySouth Africa · 37 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 18.2°C · 95 mm rain
- Pretoria in JanuarySouth Africa · 43 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 17.1°C · 103 mm rain
- Centurion in JanuarySouth Africa · 48 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 16.4°C · 103 mm rain
- Krugersdorp in JanuarySouth Africa · 50 kmHigh 24.7°C · Low 14.6°C · 116 mm rain
- Midrand in JanuarySouth Africa · 51 kmHigh 25.4°C · Low 15.1°C · 108 mm rain
- Rustenburg in JanuarySouth Africa · 54 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 18.4°C · 94 mm rain
- Randburg in JanuarySouth Africa · 56 kmHigh 25.5°C · Low 15.2°C · 108 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 Brits) is explained once on the Brits year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.