Climate averages 1991–2020

Dodoma weather
in January.

A hot, wet month: the joint 8th warmest and the wettest of the year.

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

Average high 28.3°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 19.0°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 104 mm 14 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Dodoma: daytime highs average 28.3°C and nights cool to about 19.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 8th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 104 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 12 h 26 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Kondoa (142 km away). In January its highs average 27.2°C, 1.2°C cooler than Dodoma, with 101 mm of rain.

Among the 43 cities listed in Tanzania, Dodoma ranks 14th of 43 for the warmest January highs and 12th of 43 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 43 cities is 27.1°C; Dodoma is 1.2°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 28.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 104 mm to 82 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

Dodoma climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Dodoma, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	28.3°C19.0°C	19.0°C	104	14.4	12.412 h
February	28.7°C19.0°C	19.0°C	82	11.7	12.312 h
March	28.7°C19.1°C	19.1°C	87	11.8	12.112 h
April	28.3°C18.6°C	18.6°C	42	7.3	12.012 h
May	28.5°C17.6°C	17.6°C	6.0	1.5	11.812 h
June	27.6°C15.7°C	15.7°C	0.5	0.1	11.812 h
July	26.8°C14.7°C	14.7°C	0.3	0.1	11.812 h
August	27.8°C15.4°C	15.4°C	0.2	0.0	11.912 h
September	29.6°C16.6°C	16.6°C	0.3	0.0	12.112 h
October	30.9°C18.0°C	18.0°C	3.5	0.5	12.212 h
November	31.1°C19.0°C	19.0°C	24	3.0	12.412 h
December	29.6°C19.3°C	19.3°C	80	9.7	12.512 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 Dodoma

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