Climate averages 1991–2020

Harare weather
in January.

A warm, very wet month: the 6th warmest and the wettest of the year.

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

Average high 24.5°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 16.4°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 217 mm 21 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Harare: daytime highs average 24.5°C and nights cool to about 16.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 217 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 Chitungwiza (21 km away). In January its highs average 24.9°C, about as warm as Harare, with 196 mm of rain.

Among the 11 cities listed in Zimbabwe, Harare ranks 10th of 11 for the warmest January highs and 11th of 11 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 11 cities is 25.9°C; Harare is 1.3°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 24.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 217 mm to 146 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

Harare climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Harare, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	24.5°C16.4°C	16.4°C	217	20.5	13.113 h
February	24.6°C16.2°C	16.2°C	146	16.2	12.713 h
March	24.3°C15.4°C	15.4°C	93	12.4	12.212 h
April	23.5°C13.1°C	13.1°C	28	4.9	11.712 h
May	22.2°C10.6°C	10.6°C	6.0	1.4	11.311 h
June	20.3°C8.4°C	8.4°C	1.7	0.3	11.111 h
July	20.1°C7.8°C	7.8°C	1.1	0.2	11.211 h
August	23.2°C9.5°C	9.5°C	0.6	0.2	11.512 h
September	26.6°C12.5°C	12.5°C	3.2	0.9	12.012 h
October	28.0°C14.9°C	14.9°C	22	4.1	12.512 h
November	27.1°C16.2°C	16.2°C	82	12.5	12.913 h
December	25.1°C16.3°C	16.3°C	179	20.1	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 Harare

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