Climate averages 1991–2020

Kroonstad 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.

Average high 28.6°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 16.6°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 101 mm 14 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Kroonstad: daytime highs average 28.6°C and nights cool to about 16.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 101 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 40 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Kutloanong (52 km away). In January its highs average 29.5°C, 0.9°C warmer than Kroonstad, with 94 mm of rain.

Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Kroonstad ranks joint 25th of 95 for the warmest January highs and joint 39th of 95 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 95 cities is 27.0°C; Kroonstad is 1.6°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs fall by 0.9°C to 27.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 101 mm to 81 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

Kroonstad climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Kroonstad, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	28.6°C16.6°C	16.6°C	101	13.7	13.714 h
February	27.7°C16.1°C	16.1°C	81	11.8	13.113 h
March	26.2°C14.5°C	14.5°C	68	10.2	12.312 h
April	23.1°C10.7°C	10.7°C	44	7.0	11.511 h
May	20.2°C6.4°C	6.4°C	20	3.0	10.811 h
June	17.3°C2.9°C	2.9°C	12	1.6	10.410 h
July	17.5°C2.5°C	2.5°C	6.6	0.9	10.611 h
August	20.8°C5.2°C	5.2°C	15	2.0	11.111 h
September	25.3°C9.5°C	9.5°C	14	2.7	11.912 h
October	27.0°C12.5°C	12.5°C	59	8.8	12.713 h
November	27.7°C14.0°C	14.0°C	71	10.2	13.513 h
December	28.4°C15.8°C	15.8°C	104	13.7	13.914 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 Kroonstad

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