Climate averages 1991–2020
Kampala weather
in January.
A warm, wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a warm month in Kampala: daytime highs average 24.9°C and nights cool to about 18.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 108 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes January a wet month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 06 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Nansana (8 km away). In January its highs average 25.6°C, 0.6°C warmer than Kampala, with 108 mm of rain.
Among the 21 cities listed in Uganda, Kampala ranks joint 20th of 21 for the warmest January highs and joint 13th of 21 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 21 cities is 27.1°C; Kampala is 2.2°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.5°C to 25.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 108 mm to 104 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
Kampala climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 24.9°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 108 | 19.6 | 12.112 h |
| February | 25.5°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 104 | 18.6 | 12.112 h |
| March | 24.8°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 165 | 25.1 | 12.112 h |
| April | 23.7°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 220 | 27.7 | 12.112 h |
| May | 23.5°C18.5°C | 18.5°C | 188 | 27.8 | 12.112 h |
| June | 23.5°C17.9°C | 17.9°C | 115 | 22.5 | 12.112 h |
| July | 23.4°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 83 | 17.7 | 12.112 h |
| August | 23.8°C17.6°C | 17.6°C | 109 | 22.7 | 12.112 h |
| September | 24.2°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 121 | 25.0 | 12.112 h |
| October | 23.9°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 154 | 27.7 | 12.112 h |
| November | 23.7°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 179 | 26.8 | 12.112 h |
| December | 24.1°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 133 | 23.9 | 12.112 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
- Nansana in JanuaryUganda · 8 kmHigh 25.6°C · Low 17.1°C · 108 mm rain
- Kyengera in JanuaryUganda · 9 kmHigh 25.5°C · Low 18.3°C · 108 mm rain
- Kira in JanuaryUganda · 11 kmHigh 25.8°C · Low 17.5°C · 110 mm rain
- Kajansi in JanuaryUganda · 12 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 19.4°C · 108 mm rain
- Mukono in JanuaryUganda · 20 kmHigh 25.8°C · Low 17.7°C · 124 mm rain
- Katabi in JanuaryUganda · 29 kmHigh 24.9°C · Low 20.0°C · 134 mm rain
- Lugazi in JanuaryUganda · 40 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 17.8°C · 140 mm rain
- Mityana in JanuaryUganda · 63 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 17.4°C · 74 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 Kampala) is explained once on the Kampala year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Nansana, Kyengera and Kajansi lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.