Climate averages 1991–2020

Kabwe weather
in January.

A warm, very wet month: the joint 6th warmest and the wettest of the year.

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

Average high 25.5°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 18.2°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 239 mm 25 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Kabwe: daytime highs average 25.5°C and nights cool to about 18.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 6th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 239 mm of rain on roughly 25 days, which makes January a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 52 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Kapiri Mposhi (58 km away). In January its highs average 25.2°C, about as warm as Kabwe, with 253 mm of rain.

Among the 24 cities listed in Zambia, Kabwe ranks joint 7th of 24 for the warmest January highs and joint 7th of 24 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 24 cities is 25.5°C; Kabwe is level with that mean.

From January to February, average highs fall by 0.1°C to 25.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 239 mm to 189 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

Kabwe climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Kabwe, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	25.5°C18.2°C	18.2°C	239	25.3	12.913 h
February	25.5°C18.0°C	18.0°C	189	21.5	12.613 h
March	25.4°C17.6°C	17.6°C	120	17.6	12.212 h
April	24.9°C15.9°C	15.9°C	24	5.0	11.812 h
May	24.3°C13.7°C	13.7°C	2.6	0.6	11.511 h
June	22.7°C11.5°C	11.5°C	0.6	0.1	11.311 h
July	22.4°C11.0°C	11.0°C	0.6	0.1	11.411 h
August	25.7°C13.3°C	13.3°C	0.2	0.0	11.612 h
September	29.4°C16.7°C	16.7°C	1.1	0.2	12.012 h
October	31.2°C19.2°C	19.2°C	10	2.2	12.412 h
November	29.6°C19.5°C	19.5°C	87	12.2	12.813 h
December	26.4°C18.4°C	18.4°C	211	23.3	13.013 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 Kabwe

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