Climate averages 1991–2020

Livingstone weather
in January.

A hot, very wet month: the 5th warmest and the wettest of the year.

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

Average high 28.2°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 19.8°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 208 mm 21 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Livingstone: daytime highs average 28.2°C and nights cool to about 19.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 208 mm of rain on roughly 21 days, which makes January a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 04 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Choma (166 km away). In January its highs average 24.8°C, 3.4°C cooler than Livingstone, with 222 mm of rain.

Among the 24 cities listed in Zambia, Livingstone ranks 1st of 24 for the warmest January highs and 2nd of 24 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 24 cities is 25.5°C; Livingstone is 2.7°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs fall by 0.3°C to 27.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 208 mm to 164 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

Livingstone climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Livingstone, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	28.2°C19.8°C	19.8°C	208	21.2	13.113 h
February	27.9°C19.5°C	19.5°C	164	17.6	12.713 h
March	28.1°C18.9°C	18.9°C	97	13.9	12.212 h
April	27.8°C16.8°C	16.8°C	20	3.8	11.712 h
May	26.6°C13.9°C	13.9°C	2.0	0.5	11.311 h
June	24.3°C11.3°C	11.3°C	1.0	0.2	11.111 h
July	24.1°C10.4°C	10.4°C	0.2	0.0	11.211 h
August	27.9°C13.1°C	13.1°C	0	0.0	11.512 h
September	32.1°C17.0°C	17.0°C	2.7	0.5	12.012 h
October	34.2°C20.3°C	20.3°C	11	2.9	12.512 h
November	32.1°C20.9°C	20.9°C	88	13.4	12.913 h
December	29.0°C20.0°C	20.0°C	181	20.6	13.213 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 Livingstone

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