Climate averages 1991–2020

Morogoro weather
in January.

A hot, wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 9th driest of the year.

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

Average high 30.6°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 22.3°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 110 mm 17 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Morogoro: daytime highs average 30.6°C and nights cool to about 22.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 110 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes January a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 28 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Kilosa (75 km away). In January its highs average 31.1°C, 0.5°C warmer than Morogoro, with 145 mm of rain.

Among the 43 cities listed in Tanzania, Morogoro ranks 8th of 43 for the warmest January highs and 13th of 43 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 43 cities is 27.1°C; Morogoro is 3.4°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 30.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 110 mm to 112 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

Morogoro climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Morogoro, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	30.6°C22.3°C	22.3°C	110	16.6	12.512 h
February	30.8°C22.3°C	22.3°C	112	15.0	12.312 h
March	29.3°C22.2°C	22.2°C	192	23.7	12.112 h
April	27.4°C21.4°C	21.4°C	161	24.6	12.012 h
May	26.9°C20.1°C	20.1°C	59	12.6	11.812 h
June	26.6°C18.1°C	18.1°C	15	4.2	11.712 h
July	26.6°C17.3°C	17.3°C	9.1	2.6	11.812 h
August	27.4°C18.1°C	18.1°C	11	3.0	11.912 h
September	28.9°C19.0°C	19.0°C	11	3.2	12.112 h
October	29.8°C20.2°C	20.2°C	34	7.2	12.312 h
November	29.9°C21.4°C	21.4°C	60	14.6	12.412 h
December	30.1°C22.0°C	22.0°C	102	18.9	12.513 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 Morogoro

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