Climate averages 1991–2020

Sengerema weather
in January.

A warm, wet month: the 10th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.

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

Average high 25.9°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 17.4°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 112 mm 19 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Sengerema: daytime highs average 25.9°C and nights cool to about 17.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 112 mm of rain on roughly 19 days, which makes January a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 15 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Mwanza (32 km away). In January its highs average 25.0°C, 0.9°C cooler than Sengerema, with 159 mm of rain.

Among the 43 cities listed in Tanzania, Sengerema ranks 30th of 43 for the warmest January highs and 14th of 43 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 43 cities is 27.1°C; Sengerema is 1.2°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 1.3°C to 27.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 112 mm to 85 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

Sengerema climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Sengerema, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	25.9°C17.4°C	17.4°C	112	18.6	12.312 h
February	27.1°C17.9°C	17.9°C	85	13.9	12.212 h
March	27.1°C18.2°C	18.2°C	122	17.4	12.112 h
April	26.2°C18.1°C	18.1°C	128	17.2	12.112 h
May	26.9°C18.2°C	18.2°C	44	7.7	12.012 h
June	27.6°C17.8°C	17.8°C	19	3.3	12.012 h
July	28.0°C17.4°C	17.4°C	7.7	1.3	12.012 h
August	28.1°C17.8°C	17.8°C	34	5.5	12.012 h
September	27.9°C18.0°C	18.0°C	66	10.5	12.112 h
October	26.5°C18.1°C	18.1°C	144	19.6	12.212 h
November	25.2°C17.7°C	17.7°C	197	24.0	12.212 h
December	25.2°C17.4°C	17.4°C	167	23.0	12.312 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 Sengerema

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