Climate averages 1991–2020
Vryheid weather
in January.
A warm, wet month: one of the warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a warm month in Vryheid: daytime highs average 25.6°C and nights cool to about 15.7°C. By daytime temperature it is one of the warmest months of the year.
Expect about 139 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes January a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 41 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Dundee, South Africa (70 km away). In January its highs average 26.4°C, 0.9°C warmer than Vryheid, with 151 mm of rain.
Among the 95 cities listed in South Africa, Vryheid ranks joint 62nd of 95 for the warmest January highs and joint 84th of 95 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 95 cities is 27.0°C; Vryheid is 1.4°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 25.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 139 mm to 114 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
Vryheid climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 25.6°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 139 | 17.4 | 13.714 h |
| February | 25.6°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 114 | 14.3 | 13.113 h |
| March | 24.7°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 98 | 13.0 | 12.312 h |
| April | 22.7°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 51 | 8.1 | 11.411 h |
| May | 21.3°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 19 | 3.3 | 10.811 h |
| June | 19.2°C5.0°C | 5.0°C | 13 | 1.7 | 10.410 h |
| July | 19.2°C4.6°C | 4.6°C | 14 | 1.9 | 10.611 h |
| August | 21.6°C7.0°C | 7.0°C | 22 | 3.8 | 11.111 h |
| September | 24.2°C10.1°C | 10.1°C | 39 | 6.7 | 11.912 h |
| October | 24.0°C11.7°C | 11.7°C | 97 | 13.1 | 12.713 h |
| November | 24.6°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 137 | 17.7 | 13.513 h |
| December | 25.5°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 158 | 19.2 | 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
- Dundee, South Africa in JanuarySouth Africa · 70 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 15.9°C · 151 mm rain
- Newcastle, South Africa in JanuarySouth Africa · 85 kmHigh 26.1°C · Low 15.6°C · 141 mm rain
- Piet Retief in JanuarySouth Africa · 85 kmHigh 24.8°C · Low 15.5°C · 144 mm rain
- Ladysmith in JanuarySouth Africa · 132 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 16.7°C · 172 mm rain
- Manzini in JanuaryEswatini · 153 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 18.5°C · 131 mm rain
- Ermelo in JanuarySouth Africa · 159 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 13.8°C · 143 mm rain
- Mbabane in JanuaryEswatini · 165 kmHigh 24.4°C · Low 16.2°C · 216 mm rain
- Richards Bay in JanuarySouth Africa · 166 kmHigh 28.6°C · Low 22.4°C · 108 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 Vryheid) is explained once on the Vryheid year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.