Climate averages 1991–2020

Mongu 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 27.3°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 19.4°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 262 mm 25 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Mongu: daytime highs average 27.3°C and nights cool to about 19.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 262 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 55 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Livingstone (409 km away). In January its highs average 28.2°C, 0.9°C warmer than Mongu, with 208 mm of rain.

Among the 24 cities listed in Zambia, Mongu ranks 2nd of 24 for the warmest January highs and 14th of 24 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 24 cities is 25.5°C; Mongu is 1.8°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 27.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 262 mm to 217 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

Mongu climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Mongu, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	27.3°C19.4°C	19.4°C	262	24.9	12.913 h
February	27.4°C19.4°C	19.4°C	217	22.0	12.613 h
March	27.9°C19.1°C	19.1°C	149	18.6	12.212 h
April	28.8°C17.8°C	17.8°C	26	4.3	11.812 h
May	28.4°C15.1°C	15.1°C	0.8	0.2	11.411 h
June	26.4°C12.3°C	12.3°C	0.1	0.0	11.211 h
July	26.4°C11.4°C	11.4°C	0	0.0	11.311 h
August	30.0°C14.2°C	14.2°C	0	0.0	11.612 h
September	33.7°C18.2°C	18.2°C	3.0	0.7	12.012 h
October	34.5°C20.6°C	20.6°C	24	5.0	12.412 h
November	30.7°C19.9°C	19.9°C	131	18.8	12.813 h
December	27.8°C19.5°C	19.5°C	232	25.0	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 Mongu

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