Climate averages 1991–2020

Krugersdorp 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 24.7°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 14.6°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 116 mm 16 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Krugersdorp: daytime highs average 24.7°C and nights cool to about 14.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 116 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 Roodepoort (13 km away). In January its highs average 24.5°C, about as warm as Krugersdorp, with 132 mm of rain.

Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Krugersdorp ranks joint 85th of 95 for the warmest January highs and joint 56th of 95 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 95 cities is 27.0°C; Krugersdorp is 2.3°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs fall by 0.2°C to 24.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 116 mm to 106 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

Krugersdorp climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Krugersdorp, 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	116	16.1	13.614 h
February	24.5°C14.3°C	14.3°C	106	13.3	13.013 h
March	23.2°C12.8°C	12.8°C	85	12.0	12.312 h
April	20.8°C9.7°C	9.7°C	41	6.9	11.511 h
May	18.7°C6.0°C	6.0°C	16	2.7	10.911 h
June	16.4°C3.1°C	3.1°C	6.9	1.3	10.511 h
July	16.5°C2.5°C	2.5°C	2.7	0.7	10.711 h
August	19.6°C5.1°C	5.1°C	7.6	1.3	11.211 h
September	23.7°C8.7°C	8.7°C	19	2.9	11.912 h
October	24.8°C11.2°C	11.2°C	63	9.4	12.713 h
November	24.5°C12.6°C	12.6°C	90	12.6	13.413 h
December	24.6°C14.1°C	14.1°C	128	17.1	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 Krugersdorp

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