Climate averages 1991–2020

Taiz weather
in January.

A warm, fairly dry month: the coolest and the 3rd driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule

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

Average high 25.3°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 15.2°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 20 mm 5 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 11 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Taiz: daytime highs average 25.3°C and nights cool to about 15.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 20 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 25 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Ibb (46 km away). In January its highs average 23.0°C, 2.2°C cooler than Taiz, with 11 mm of rain.

Among the 8 cities listed in Yemen, Taiz ranks 4th of 8 for the warmest January highs and 8th of 8 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 8 cities is 24.2°C; Taiz is 1.1°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 1.6°C to 26.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 20 mm to 14 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

Taiz climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Taiz, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	25.3°C15.2°C	15.2°C	20	4.7	11.411 h
February	26.9°C16.1°C	16.1°C	14	3.3	11.712 h
March	28.5°C17.7°C	17.7°C	32	7.3	12.012 h
April	29.7°C18.9°C	18.9°C	56	9.8	12.412 h
May	30.1°C20.1°C	20.1°C	91	17.7	12.713 h
June	31.0°C21.1°C	21.1°C	43	11.2	12.913 h
July	30.3°C21.6°C	21.6°C	36	11.7	12.813 h
August	28.6°C20.9°C	20.9°C	78	18.4	12.613 h
September	28.5°C19.9°C	19.9°C	116	22.5	12.212 h
October	28.4°C17.9°C	17.9°C	63	10.4	11.812 h
November	27.1°C16.4°C	16.4°C	23	5.6	11.512 h
December	25.6°C15.4°C	15.4°C	17	5.0	11.311 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 Taiz

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