Climate averages 1991–2020

Ladysmith 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 28.0°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 16.7°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 172 mm 19 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Ladysmith: daytime highs average 28.0°C and nights cool to about 16.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 172 mm of rain on roughly 19 days, which makes January a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 44 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Dundee, South Africa (62 km away). In January its highs average 26.4°C, 1.6°C cooler than Ladysmith, with 151 mm of rain.

Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Ladysmith ranks 33rd of 95 for the warmest January highs and 93rd of 95 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 95 cities is 27.0°C; Ladysmith is 1.0°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs fall by 0.2°C to 27.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 172 mm to 143 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

Ladysmith climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Ladysmith, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	28.0°C16.7°C	16.7°C	172	18.9	13.714 h
February	27.8°C16.7°C	16.7°C	143	14.7	13.113 h
March	26.5°C15.0°C	15.0°C	117	13.4	12.312 h
April	24.0°C11.8°C	11.8°C	58	7.9	11.411 h
May	21.8°C7.6°C	7.6°C	21	3.5	10.711 h
June	19.4°C4.3°C	4.3°C	14	2.8	10.410 h
July	19.4°C3.8°C	3.8°C	16	2.3	10.511 h
August	22.2°C6.5°C	6.5°C	28	4.4	11.111 h
September	25.7°C10.0°C	10.0°C	39	6.9	11.912 h
October	26.3°C12.4°C	12.4°C	100	13.7	12.813 h
November	27.1°C14.1°C	14.1°C	137	16.7	13.514 h
December	27.9°C15.8°C	15.8°C	179	19.5	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 Ladysmith

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