Climate averages 1991–2020

Iringa weather
in January.

A warm, wet month: the joint 6th warmest and the wettest of the year.

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

Average high 23.1°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 15.2°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 163 mm 24 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Iringa: daytime highs average 23.1°C and nights cool to about 15.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 6th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 163 mm of rain on roughly 24 days, which makes January a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 31 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Mafinga (74 km away). In January its highs average 22.6°C, 0.5°C cooler than Iringa, with 319 mm of rain.

Among the 43 cities listed in Tanzania, Iringa ranks 39th of 43 for the warmest January highs and 30th of 43 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 43 cities is 27.1°C; Iringa is 4.0°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 23.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 163 mm to 127 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

Iringa climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Iringa, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	23.1°C15.2°C	15.2°C	163	23.7	12.513 h
February	23.4°C15.3°C	15.3°C	127	20.1	12.412 h
March	23.1°C15.6°C	15.6°C	130	20.5	12.112 h
April	22.4°C15.6°C	15.6°C	57	10.4	11.912 h
May	22.6°C14.2°C	14.2°C	7.0	1.5	11.812 h
June	22.0°C12.2°C	12.2°C	0.4	0.1	11.712 h
July	21.4°C11.3°C	11.3°C	0.1	0.0	11.712 h
August	22.6°C11.8°C	11.8°C	0.3	0.0	11.912 h
September	24.2°C12.7°C	12.7°C	1.2	0.3	12.112 h
October	25.5°C14.2°C	14.2°C	8.3	1.9	12.312 h
November	25.8°C15.1°C	15.1°C	46	7.3	12.512 h
December	24.2°C15.4°C	15.4°C	131	19.2	12.613 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 Iringa

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