Climate averages 1991–2020

Mufulira 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 25.4°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 17.7°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 280 mm 28 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Mufulira: daytime highs average 25.4°C and nights cool to about 17.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 280 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 46 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Kitwe (28 km away). In January its highs average 25.6°C, about as warm as Mufulira, with 278 mm of rain.

Among the 24 cities listed in Zambia, Mufulira ranks joint 9th of 24 for the warmest January highs and joint 20th of 24 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 24 cities is 25.5°C; Mufulira is 0.1°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 25.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 280 mm to 243 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

Mufulira climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Mufulira, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	25.4°C17.7°C	17.7°C	280	28.4	12.813 h
February	25.6°C17.7°C	17.7°C	243	24.5	12.513 h
March	25.7°C17.5°C	17.5°C	179	21.6	12.212 h
April	25.9°C16.4°C	16.4°C	35	6.8	11.812 h
May	26.5°C15.0°C	15.0°C	2.3	0.7	11.512 h
June	25.0°C12.8°C	12.8°C	0.1	0.0	11.411 h
July	24.8°C12.2°C	12.2°C	0.1	0.0	11.511 h
August	27.6°C14.6°C	14.6°C	0.1	0.0	11.712 h
September	30.7°C17.7°C	17.7°C	1.2	0.4	12.012 h
October	31.6°C19.7°C	19.7°C	17	3.6	12.412 h
November	28.8°C19.0°C	19.0°C	134	17.1	12.713 h
December	25.9°C17.8°C	17.8°C	256	27.8	12.813 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 Mufulira

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