Climate averages 1991–2020
Gweru weather
in January.
A warm, wet month: the joint 5th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a warm month in Gweru: daytime highs average 25.3°C and nights cool to about 16.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 161 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes January a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 09 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kwekwe (58 km away). In January its highs average 27.5°C, 2.2°C warmer than Gweru, with 146 mm of rain.
Among the 11 cities listed in Zimbabwe, Gweru ranks 8th of 11 for the warmest January highs and 4th of 11 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 11 cities is 25.9°C; Gweru is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs fall by 0.1°C to 25.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 161 mm to 122 mm.
The annual picture
January in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Gweru climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 25.3°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 161 | 15.7 | 13.213 h |
| February | 25.3°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 122 | 12.9 | 12.713 h |
| March | 24.8°C15.3°C | 15.3°C | 82 | 10.5 | 12.212 h |
| April | 23.4°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 28 | 4.0 | 11.712 h |
| May | 22.0°C10.5°C | 10.5°C | 6.8 | 1.4 | 11.211 h |
| June | 19.9°C8.1°C | 8.1°C | 3.7 | 0.7 | 11.011 h |
| July | 19.4°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 2.9 | 0.9 | 11.111 h |
| August | 23.2°C9.5°C | 9.5°C | 0.6 | 0.1 | 11.511 h |
| September | 27.0°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 4.4 | 0.8 | 12.012 h |
| October | 28.4°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 25 | 4.8 | 12.513 h |
| November | 27.5°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 98 | 12.3 | 13.013 h |
| December | 25.9°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 184 | 17.6 | 13.313 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
- Kwekwe in JanuaryZimbabwe · 58 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 18.0°C · 146 mm rain
- Kadoma in JanuaryZimbabwe · 125 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 18.7°C · 186 mm rain
- Masvingo in JanuaryZimbabwe · 126 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 17.8°C · 127 mm rain
- Bulawayo in JanuaryZimbabwe · 151 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 17.1°C · 134 mm rain
- Norton in JanuaryZimbabwe · 197 kmHigh 25.4°C · Low 17.4°C · 192 mm rain
- Chitungwiza in JanuaryZimbabwe · 208 kmHigh 24.9°C · Low 16.5°C · 196 mm rain
- Harare in JanuaryZimbabwe · 223 kmHigh 24.5°C · Low 16.4°C · 217 mm rain
- Ruwa in JanuaryZimbabwe · 230 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 15.7°C · 206 mm rain
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 limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Gweru) is explained once on the Gweru year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.