Climate averages 1991–2020

Handeni weather
in January.

A hot, wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 8th driest of the year.

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

Average high 30.5°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 21.0°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 119 mm 15 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Handeni: daytime highs average 30.5°C and nights cool to about 21.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 119 mm of rain on roughly 15 days, which makes January a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 24 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Tanga (126 km away). In January its highs average 32.6°C, 2.1°C warmer than Handeni, with 31 mm of rain.

Among the 43 cities listed in Tanzania, Handeni ranks joint 9th of 43 for the warmest January highs and 18th of 43 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 43 cities is 27.1°C; Handeni is 3.4°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.3°C to 30.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 119 mm to 110 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

Handeni climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Handeni, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	30.5°C21.0°C	21.0°C	119	14.5	12.412 h
February	30.8°C21.0°C	21.0°C	110	12.4	12.312 h
March	29.3°C21.1°C	21.1°C	160	22.2	12.112 h
April	26.6°C20.5°C	20.5°C	189	26.5	12.012 h
May	25.2°C19.2°C	19.2°C	123	19.1	11.912 h
June	24.7°C17.6°C	17.6°C	36	10.3	11.812 h
July	24.5°C16.7°C	16.7°C	29	8.7	11.812 h
August	24.9°C17.1°C	17.1°C	41	11.6	11.912 h
September	26.1°C17.9°C	17.9°C	38	10.7	12.112 h
October	27.2°C18.9°C	18.9°C	81	14.7	12.212 h
November	28.0°C20.0°C	20.0°C	107	19.5	12.412 h
December	29.3°C20.8°C	20.8°C	141	20.7	12.412 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 Handeni

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