Climate averages 1991–2020

Mukono weather
in January.

A warm, wet month: the 3rd warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.

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

Average high 25.8°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 17.7°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 124 mm 21 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Mukono: daytime highs average 25.8°C and nights cool to about 17.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 124 mm of rain on roughly 21 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 Kira (15 km away). In January its highs average 25.8°C, about as warm as Mukono, with 110 mm of rain.

Among the 21 cities listed in Uganda, Mukono ranks joint 12th of 21 for the warmest January highs and 19th of 21 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 21 cities is 27.1°C; Mukono is 1.2°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.7°C to 26.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 124 mm to 116 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

Mukono climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Mukono, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	25.8°C17.7°C	17.7°C	124	21.1	12.112 h
February	26.5°C18.2°C	18.2°C	116	19.4	12.112 h
March	25.9°C18.4°C	18.4°C	186	25.9	12.112 h
April	24.6°C18.3°C	18.3°C	244	28.2	12.112 h
May	24.3°C17.8°C	17.8°C	212	28.5	12.112 h
June	24.3°C17.0°C	17.0°C	145	24.7	12.112 h
July	24.2°C16.5°C	16.5°C	118	21.7	12.112 h
August	24.6°C16.7°C	16.7°C	136	24.9	12.112 h
September	25.1°C17.1°C	17.1°C	140	25.8	12.112 h
October	24.7°C17.5°C	17.5°C	170	27.9	12.112 h
November	24.5°C17.5°C	17.5°C	200	27.9	12.112 h
December	25.0°C17.4°C	17.4°C	154	24.8	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

Distance from Mukono

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