Climate averages 1991–2020

Dili weather
in January.

A hot, very wet month: the 11th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.

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

Average high 29.3°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 24.7°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 215 mm 25 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Dili: daytime highs average 29.3°C and nights cool to about 24.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 215 mm of rain on roughly 25 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 34 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Atambua (96 km away). In January its highs average 27.1°C, 2.2°C cooler than Dili, with 295 mm of rain.

From January to February, average highs fall by 0.2°C to 29.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 215 mm to 211 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

Dili climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Dili, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	29.3°C24.7°C	24.7°C	215	25.4	12.613 h
February	29.1°C24.5°C	24.5°C	211	25.0	12.412 h
March	29.5°C24.3°C	24.3°C	227	26.2	12.212 h
April	29.9°C23.9°C	23.9°C	204	22.4	11.912 h
May	30.0°C23.5°C	23.5°C	74	12.2	11.712 h
June	29.9°C22.6°C	22.6°C	25	4.3	11.612 h
July	30.1°C21.7°C	21.7°C	13	2.6	11.712 h
August	30.8°C21.4°C	21.4°C	6.7	1.5	11.812 h
September	32.0°C22.5°C	22.5°C	20	4.9	12.012 h
October	32.1°C23.9°C	23.9°C	74	14.6	12.312 h
November	31.2°C24.8°C	24.8°C	178	24.9	12.512 h
December	29.8°C24.9°C	24.9°C	235	27.8	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 Dili

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