Climate averages 1991–2020

Kitwe weather
in January.

A warm, very wet month: the 10th warmest and the wettest of the year.

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

Average high 25.6°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 17.9°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 278 mm 28 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Kitwe: daytime highs average 25.6°C and nights cool to about 17.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 278 mm of rain on roughly 28 days, which makes January a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 47 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Kalulushi (14 km away). In January its highs average 25.2°C, about as warm as Kitwe, with 273 mm of rain.

Among the 24 cities listed in Zambia, Kitwe ranks 6th of 24 for the warmest January highs and 18th of 24 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 24 cities is 25.5°C; Kitwe is 0.1°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 25.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 278 mm to 233 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

Kitwe climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Kitwe, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	25.6°C17.9°C	17.9°C	278	28.4	12.813 h
February	25.8°C17.8°C	17.8°C	233	24.4	12.513 h
March	25.9°C17.4°C	17.4°C	172	21.9	12.212 h
April	26.1°C16.0°C	16.0°C	34	6.8	11.812 h
May	26.4°C14.1°C	14.1°C	2.5	0.8	11.512 h
June	24.9°C11.9°C	11.9°C	0.2	0.1	11.411 h
July	24.7°C11.3°C	11.3°C	0.1	0.0	11.411 h
August	27.7°C13.7°C	13.7°C	0.1	0.0	11.712 h
September	30.9°C16.9°C	16.9°C	1.1	0.2	12.012 h
October	32.0°C19.2°C	19.2°C	17	3.6	12.412 h
November	29.5°C18.9°C	18.9°C	123	16.9	12.713 h
December	26.2°C18.0°C	18.0°C	256	27.7	12.913 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 Kitwe

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