Climate averages 1991–2020

Chinhoyi weather
in January.

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

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

Average high 26.7°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 18.6°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 216 mm 22 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Chinhoyi: daytime highs average 26.7°C and nights cool to about 18.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 5th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 216 mm of rain on roughly 22 days, which makes January a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 02 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Norton (78 km away). In January its highs average 25.4°C, 1.3°C cooler than Chinhoyi, with 192 mm of rain.

Among the 11 cities listed in Zimbabwe, Chinhoyi ranks joint 3rd of 11 for the warmest January highs and 10th of 11 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 11 cities is 25.9°C; Chinhoyi is 0.8°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs fall by 0.1°C to 26.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 216 mm to 152 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

Chinhoyi climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Chinhoyi, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	26.7°C18.6°C	18.6°C	216	21.6	13.013 h
February	26.6°C18.3°C	18.3°C	152	18.9	12.713 h
March	26.7°C17.7°C	17.7°C	92	13.0	12.212 h
April	26.1°C15.7°C	15.7°C	24	4.4	11.712 h
May	24.8°C13.0°C	13.0°C	3.7	0.8	11.311 h
June	23.0°C10.5°C	10.5°C	0.9	0.2	11.111 h
July	22.8°C9.9°C	9.9°C	0.7	0.2	11.211 h
August	26.0°C12.1°C	12.1°C	0.6	0.1	11.512 h
September	29.6°C15.5°C	15.5°C	2.7	0.7	12.012 h
October	31.1°C18.2°C	18.2°C	17	3.3	12.512 h
November	30.0°C19.2°C	19.2°C	74	11.7	12.913 h
December	27.5°C18.8°C	18.8°C	174	20.4	13.113 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 Chinhoyi

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