Climate averages 1991–2020

Vwawa weather
in January.

A warm, very wet month: the 8th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.

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

Average high 23.7°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 15.8°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 240 mm 27 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Vwawa: daytime highs average 23.7°C and nights cool to about 15.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 240 mm of rain on roughly 27 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 35 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Tunduma (28 km away). In January its highs average 22.9°C, 0.8°C cooler than Vwawa, with 277 mm of rain.

Among the 43 cities listed in Tanzania, Vwawa ranks 37th of 43 for the warmest January highs and 36th of 43 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 43 cities is 27.1°C; Vwawa is 3.4°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.3°C to 24.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 240 mm to 191 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

Vwawa climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Vwawa, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	23.7°C15.8°C	15.8°C	240	26.8	12.613 h
February	24.0°C15.7°C	15.7°C	191	23.1	12.412 h
March	24.0°C15.9°C	15.9°C	256	27.1	12.212 h
April	23.4°C15.6°C	15.6°C	160	20.0	11.912 h
May	23.6°C14.4°C	14.4°C	23	4.6	11.712 h
June	23.3°C12.5°C	12.5°C	0.3	0.1	11.612 h
July	23.1°C11.7°C	11.7°C	0.2	0.0	11.612 h
August	25.3°C12.8°C	12.8°C	0.6	0.2	11.812 h
September	27.6°C14.3°C	14.3°C	2.7	0.8	12.012 h
October	28.6°C16.0°C	16.0°C	24	5.7	12.312 h
November	27.3°C16.3°C	16.3°C	102	14.4	12.513 h
December	24.7°C16.0°C	16.0°C	224	24.0	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 Vwawa

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