Climate averages 1991–2020

Queenstown weather
in January.

A hot, wet month: the warmest and the wettest of the year.

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

Average high 28.1°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 15.2°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 100 mm 14 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 14 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Queenstown: daytime highs average 28.1°C and nights cool to about 15.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 100 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes January a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 58 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Bhisho (118 km away). In January its highs average 26.1°C, 2.0°C cooler than Queenstown, with 117 mm of rain.

Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Queenstown ranks joint 31st of 95 for the warmest January highs and 38th of 95 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 95 cities is 27.0°C; Queenstown is 1.1°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs fall by 0.6°C to 27.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 100 mm to 98 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

Queenstown climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Queenstown, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	28.1°C15.2°C	15.2°C	100	13.9	14.014 h
February	27.5°C15.3°C	15.3°C	98	13.4	13.213 h
March	26.0°C13.8°C	13.8°C	78	12.3	12.312 h
April	22.9°C10.3°C	10.3°C	47	7.7	11.311 h
May	20.6°C6.9°C	6.9°C	14	3.4	10.511 h
June	17.6°C4.0°C	4.0°C	12	2.4	10.110 h
July	17.7°C3.3°C	3.3°C	13	2.3	10.310 h
August	19.9°C5.0°C	5.0°C	21	3.8	11.011 h
September	23.4°C7.8°C	7.8°C	33	5.4	11.912 h
October	24.7°C10.0°C	10.0°C	55	10.1	12.813 h
November	26.1°C11.8°C	11.8°C	72	11.8	13.714 h
December	27.7°C13.9°C	13.9°C	91	13.7	14.214 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 Queenstown

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