Climate averages 1991–2020

Thohoyandou weather
in January.

A warm, wet month: the 3rd warmest and the wettest of the year.

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

Average high 27.5°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 18.9°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 179 mm 15 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Thohoyandou: daytime highs average 27.5°C and nights cool to about 18.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 179 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes January a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 22 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Louis Trichardt (61 km away). In January its highs average 28.1°C, 0.6°C warmer than Thohoyandou, with 102 mm of rain.

Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Thohoyandou ranks 38th of 95 for the warmest January highs and 95th of 95 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 95 cities is 27.0°C; Thohoyandou is 0.5°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs fall by 0.1°C to 27.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 179 mm to 156 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

Thohoyandou climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Thohoyandou, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	27.5°C18.9°C	18.9°C	179	15.4	13.413 h
February	27.4°C18.9°C	18.9°C	156	13.5	12.913 h
March	26.8°C17.9°C	17.9°C	97	12.6	12.212 h
April	25.1°C15.5°C	15.5°C	47	8.3	11.612 h
May	23.7°C12.7°C	12.7°C	24	4.4	11.011 h
June	21.8°C10.4°C	10.4°C	15	3.0	10.711 h
July	21.2°C9.8°C	9.8°C	21	4.1	10.911 h
August	23.9°C11.3°C	11.3°C	17	3.6	11.311 h
September	26.5°C13.8°C	13.8°C	36	6.0	11.912 h
October	27.3°C15.6°C	15.6°C	55	9.5	12.613 h
November	27.7°C17.4°C	17.4°C	120	12.4	13.213 h
December	27.7°C18.5°C	18.5°C	161	14.5	13.514 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 Thohoyandou

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