Climate averages 1991–2020

Tarime weather
in January.

A warm, wet month: the joint 8th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.

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

Average high 26.7°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 16.0°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 100 mm 17 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Tarime: daytime highs average 26.7°C and nights cool to about 16.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 8th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 100 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes January a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 11 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Migori (34 km away). In January its highs average 26.5°C, about as warm as Tarime, with 116 mm of rain.

Among the 43 cities listed in Tanzania, Tarime ranks 24th of 43 for the warmest January highs and 9th of 43 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 43 cities is 27.1°C; Tarime is 0.4°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 1.4°C to 28.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 100 mm to 82 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

Tarime climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Tarime, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	26.7°C16.0°C	16.0°C	100	17.2	12.212 h
February	28.1°C16.6°C	16.6°C	82	14.2	12.212 h
March	27.8°C16.6°C	16.6°C	127	18.9	12.112 h
April	26.6°C16.3°C	16.3°C	154	21.3	12.112 h
May	26.4°C16.2°C	16.2°C	82	15.3	12.112 h
June	26.7°C16.0°C	16.0°C	34	7.6	12.012 h
July	27.2°C15.8°C	15.8°C	21	5.2	12.012 h
August	27.9°C16.2°C	16.2°C	39	8.2	12.112 h
September	28.7°C16.7°C	16.7°C	49	10.5	12.112 h
October	28.6°C16.9°C	16.9°C	93	16.3	12.112 h
November	26.8°C16.3°C	16.3°C	155	22.4	12.212 h
December	26.2°C15.9°C	15.9°C	147	21.5	12.212 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 Tarime

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