Climate averages 1991–2020

Paramaribo weather
in January.

A hot, wet month: the coolest and the 5th driest of the year.

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

Average high 28.1°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 23.5°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 110 mm 19 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Paramaribo: daytime highs average 28.1°C and nights cool to about 23.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 110 mm of rain on roughly 19 days, which makes January a wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 49 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Cayenne (330 km away). In January its highs average 27.6°C, 0.5°C cooler than Paramaribo, with 244 mm of rain.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 28.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 110 mm to 84 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

Paramaribo climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Paramaribo, 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°C23.5°C	23.5°C	110	19.2	11.812 h
February	28.3°C23.6°C	23.6°C	84	15.9	11.912 h
March	28.8°C23.8°C	23.8°C	79	16.9	12.112 h
April	29.1°C24.1°C	24.1°C	148	20.4	12.212 h
May	29.0°C24.0°C	24.0°C	258	27.5	12.412 h
June	28.9°C23.6°C	23.6°C	285	28.2	12.512 h
July	29.2°C23.5°C	23.5°C	214	26.1	12.412 h
August	30.0°C23.8°C	23.8°C	128	19.4	12.312 h
September	31.0°C24.2°C	24.2°C	66	12.6	12.212 h
October	31.2°C24.5°C	24.5°C	71	13.8	12.012 h
November	30.2°C24.3°C	24.3°C	116	19.6	11.912 h
December	28.7°C23.8°C	23.8°C	140	23.6	11.812 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 Paramaribo

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