Climate averages 1991–2020

Emalahleni weather
in January.

A warm, wet month: the 3rd warmest and the wettest of the year.

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

Average high 24.7°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 14.6°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 124 mm 15 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Emalahleni: daytime highs average 24.7°C and nights cool to about 14.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 124 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes January a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 33 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Middelburg (26 km away). In January its highs average 25.5°C, 0.8°C warmer than Emalahleni, with 122 mm of rain.

Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Emalahleni ranks joint 85th of 95 for the warmest January highs and joint 62nd of 95 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 95 cities is 27.0°C; Emalahleni is 2.3°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 24.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 124 mm to 97 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

Emalahleni climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Emalahleni, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	24.7°C14.6°C	14.6°C	124	15.2	13.614 h
February	24.8°C14.4°C	14.4°C	97	12.1	13.013 h
March	23.7°C13.0°C	13.0°C	94	11.4	12.312 h
April	21.4°C10.1°C	10.1°C	44	6.4	11.511 h
May	19.4°C6.3°C	6.3°C	16	2.5	10.911 h
June	17.1°C3.2°C	3.2°C	6.0	1.0	10.511 h
July	17.3°C2.7°C	2.7°C	6.0	0.8	10.711 h
August	20.4°C5.4°C	5.4°C	8.7	1.7	11.211 h
September	24.3°C9.1°C	9.1°C	20	3.2	11.912 h
October	24.9°C11.5°C	11.5°C	73	10.2	12.713 h
November	24.2°C12.8°C	12.8°C	107	14.0	13.413 h
December	24.6°C14.2°C	14.2°C	123	16.7	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

Distance from Emalahleni

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