Climate averages 1991–2020

Mafinga weather
in January.

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

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

Average high 22.6°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 15.0°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 319 mm 26 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Mafinga: daytime highs average 22.6°C and nights cool to about 15.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 319 mm of rain on roughly 26 days, which makes January a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 33 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Iringa (74 km away). In January its highs average 23.1°C, 0.5°C warmer than Mafinga, with 163 mm of rain.

Among the 43 cities listed in Tanzania, Mafinga ranks 41st of 43 for the warmest January highs and 42nd of 43 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 43 cities is 27.1°C; Mafinga is 4.5°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 22.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 319 mm to 271 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

Mafinga climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Mafinga, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	22.6°C15.0°C	15.0°C	319	26.4	12.513 h
February	22.8°C15.0°C	15.0°C	271	23.4	12.412 h
March	22.3°C15.3°C	15.3°C	288	25.9	12.212 h
April	21.1°C14.8°C	14.8°C	109	16.4	11.912 h
May	20.7°C13.1°C	13.1°C	14	3.7	11.712 h
June	20.0°C11.1°C	11.1°C	0.7	0.2	11.612 h
July	19.4°C10.2°C	10.2°C	0.2	0.0	11.712 h
August	20.8°C10.9°C	10.9°C	0.6	0.1	11.812 h
September	22.7°C12.0°C	12.0°C	3.1	0.5	12.112 h
October	24.2°C13.5°C	13.5°C	15	3.1	12.312 h
November	24.4°C14.5°C	14.5°C	106	10.4	12.512 h
December	23.1°C14.9°C	14.9°C	288	22.1	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 Mafinga

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