Climate averages 1991–2020

Etwatwa weather
in January.

A warm, wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 11th driest of the year.

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

Average high 25.2°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 15.1°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 123 mm 16 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Etwatwa: daytime highs average 25.2°C and nights cool to about 15.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 123 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes January a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 34 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Brakpan (15 km away). In January its highs average 25.0°C, about as warm as Etwatwa, with 127 mm of rain.

Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Etwatwa ranks joint 76th of 95 for the warmest January highs and 61st of 95 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 95 cities is 27.0°C; Etwatwa is 1.8°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs fall by 0.1°C to 25.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 123 mm to 103 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

Etwatwa climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Etwatwa, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	25.2°C15.1°C	15.1°C	123	16.0	13.614 h
February	25.1°C14.9°C	14.9°C	103	13.1	13.013 h
March	23.9°C13.4°C	13.4°C	85	11.6	12.312 h
April	21.7°C10.5°C	10.5°C	41	6.7	11.511 h
May	19.7°C6.9°C	6.9°C	15	2.5	10.911 h
June	17.4°C3.9°C	3.9°C	7.0	1.4	10.511 h
July	17.6°C3.3°C	3.3°C	3.7	0.7	10.711 h
August	20.7°C5.9°C	5.9°C	11	2.2	11.211 h
September	24.7°C9.7°C	9.7°C	23	3.5	11.912 h
October	25.4°C12.0°C	12.0°C	83	10.5	12.713 h
November	24.9°C13.3°C	13.3°C	104	13.9	13.413 h
December	25.1°C14.7°C	14.7°C	135	17.7	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 Etwatwa

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