Climate averages 1991–2020
Songea weather
in January.
A warm, very wet month: the 5th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a warm month in Songea: daytime highs average 26.4°C and nights cool to about 18.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 315 mm of rain on roughly 27 days, which makes January a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 40 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Njombe (177 km away). In January its highs average 21.5°C, 4.9°C cooler than Songea, with 268 mm of rain.
Among the 43 cities listed in Tanzania, Songea ranks 26th of 43 for the warmest January highs and 41st of 43 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 43 cities is 27.1°C; Songea is 0.8°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs fall by 0.3°C to 26.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 315 mm to 273 mm.
The annual picture
January in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Songea climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 26.4°C18.5°C | 18.5°C | 315 | 27.1 | 12.713 h |
| February | 26.1°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 273 | 24.8 | 12.512 h |
| March | 25.4°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 261 | 28.1 | 12.212 h |
| April | 24.1°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 129 | 20.6 | 11.912 h |
| May | 23.6°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 29 | 6.4 | 11.612 h |
| June | 22.8°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 4.3 | 1.3 | 11.512 h |
| July | 22.5°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 3.8 | 1.1 | 11.612 h |
| August | 24.4°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 5.1 | 1.5 | 11.812 h |
| September | 27.0°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 4.2 | 1.4 | 12.012 h |
| October | 28.8°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 22 | 5.0 | 12.312 h |
| November | 29.3°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 71 | 9.2 | 12.613 h |
| December | 27.2°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 224 | 21.4 | 12.713 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
- Njombe in JanuaryTanzania · 177 kmHigh 21.5°C · Low 13.4°C · 268 mm rain
- Mzuzu in JanuaryMalawi · 198 kmHigh 24.5°C · Low 17.4°C · 300 mm rain
- Makumbako in JanuaryTanzania · 223 kmHigh 23.4°C · Low 15.6°C · 189 mm rain
- Mafinga in JanuaryTanzania · 268 kmHigh 22.6°C · Low 15.0°C · 319 mm rain
- Katumba in JanuaryTanzania · 275 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 17.6°C · 456 mm rain
- Lichinga in JanuaryMozambique · 296 kmHigh 23.6°C · Low 16.8°C · 309 mm rain
- Ifakara in JanuaryTanzania · 305 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 23.0°C · 129 mm rain
- Iringa in JanuaryTanzania · 324 kmHigh 23.1°C · Low 15.2°C · 163 mm rain
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 limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Songea) is explained once on the Songea year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.