Climate averages 1991–2020
KwaDukuza weather
in January.
A warm, wet month: the 2nd warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a warm month in KwaDukuza: daytime highs average 27.6°C and nights cool to about 21.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 103 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes January a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 47 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Ntuzuma (56 km away). In January its highs average 27.0°C, 0.6°C cooler than KwaDukuza, with 91 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, KwaDukuza ranks joint 35th of 95 for the warmest January highs and joint 47th of 95 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 95 cities is 27.0°C; KwaDukuza is 0.6°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 27.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 103 mm to 96 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
KwaDukuza climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 27.6°C21.0°C | 21.0°C | 103 | 13.4 | 13.814 h |
| February | 27.8°C21.3°C | 21.3°C | 96 | 12.0 | 13.113 h |
| March | 27.1°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 91 | 12.0 | 12.312 h |
| April | 25.3°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 69 | 8.5 | 11.411 h |
| May | 24.0°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 44 | 5.2 | 10.711 h |
| June | 22.4°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 26 | 4.0 | 10.310 h |
| July | 21.9°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 41 | 4.7 | 10.510 h |
| August | 23.0°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 31 | 5.8 | 11.111 h |
| September | 23.9°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 59 | 8.5 | 11.912 h |
| October | 24.2°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 87 | 12.7 | 12.813 h |
| November | 25.4°C18.3°C | 18.3°C | 99 | 13.4 | 13.614 h |
| December | 26.7°C20.0°C | 20.0°C | 99 | 14.0 | 14.014 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
- Ntuzuma in JanuarySouth Africa · 56 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 20.1°C · 91 mm rain
- Durban in JanuarySouth Africa · 64 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 21.7°C · 91 mm rain
- Pinetown in JanuarySouth Africa · 67 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 19.5°C · 91 mm rain
- Mpumalanga in JanuarySouth Africa · 83 kmHigh 25.5°C · Low 17.1°C · 101 mm rain
- Pietermaritzburg in JanuarySouth Africa · 93 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 17.3°C · 134 mm rain
- Richards Bay in JanuarySouth Africa · 95 kmHigh 28.6°C · Low 22.4°C · 108 mm rain
- Dundee, South Africa in JanuarySouth Africa · 165 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 15.9°C · 151 mm rain
- Ladysmith in JanuarySouth Africa · 170 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 16.7°C · 172 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 KwaDukuza) is explained once on the KwaDukuza year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.