Climate averages 1991–2020
Virginia 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.
January is a hot month in Virginia: daytime highs average 29.6°C and nights cool to about 17.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 92 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 42 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Welkom (19 km away). In January its highs average 29.2°C, about as warm as Virginia, with 92 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Virginia ranks joint 9th of 95 for the warmest January highs and joint 24th of 95 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 95 cities is 27.0°C; Virginia is 2.6°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs fall by 0.9°C to 28.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 92 mm to 75 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
Virginia climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 29.6°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 92 | 13.1 | 13.714 h |
| February | 28.6°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 75 | 11.5 | 13.113 h |
| March | 27.0°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 67 | 10.3 | 12.312 h |
| April | 23.6°C11.2°C | 11.2°C | 46 | 6.8 | 11.411 h |
| May | 20.6°C6.8°C | 6.8°C | 19 | 3.2 | 10.711 h |
| June | 17.5°C3.2°C | 3.2°C | 12 | 1.8 | 10.410 h |
| July | 17.7°C2.7°C | 2.7°C | 6.3 | 1.0 | 10.511 h |
| August | 21.0°C5.3°C | 5.3°C | 15 | 2.0 | 11.111 h |
| September | 25.7°C9.6°C | 9.6°C | 14 | 2.6 | 11.912 h |
| October | 27.6°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 51 | 7.5 | 12.713 h |
| November | 28.4°C14.4°C | 14.4°C | 67 | 8.9 | 13.513 h |
| December | 29.4°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 91 | 13.1 | 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
- Welkom in JanuarySouth Africa · 19 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 17.0°C · 92 mm rain
- Odendaalsrus in JanuarySouth Africa · 31 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 17.2°C · 94 mm rain
- Kutloanong in JanuarySouth Africa · 32 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 17.2°C · 94 mm rain
- Kroonstad in JanuarySouth Africa · 62 kmHigh 28.6°C · Low 16.6°C · 101 mm rain
- Bothaville in JanuarySouth Africa · 83 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 17.5°C · 94 mm rain
- Thaba Nchu in JanuarySouth Africa · 123 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 15.7°C · 102 mm rain
- Orkney in JanuarySouth Africa · 126 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 17.2°C · 97 mm rain
- Bloemfontein in JanuarySouth Africa · 130 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 16.8°C · 82 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 Virginia) is explained once on the Virginia year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Welkom lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.