Climate averages 1991–2020

Kwekwe weather
in January.

A warm, wet month: the 7th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.

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

Average high 27.5°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 18.0°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 146 mm 16 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Kwekwe: daytime highs average 27.5°C and nights cool to about 18.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 146 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 08 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Gweru (58 km away). In January its highs average 25.3°C, 2.2°C cooler than Kwekwe, with 161 mm of rain.

Among the 11 cities listed in Zimbabwe, Kwekwe ranks 1st of 11 for the warmest January highs and 3rd of 11 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 11 cities is 25.9°C; Kwekwe is 1.7°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 27.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 146 mm to 109 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

Kwekwe climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Kwekwe, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	27.5°C18.0°C	18.0°C	146	15.9	13.113 h
February	27.6°C17.7°C	17.7°C	109	12.2	12.713 h
March	27.6°C17.1°C	17.1°C	63	9.1	12.212 h
April	26.6°C14.9°C	14.9°C	20	2.9	11.712 h
May	24.9°C12.2°C	12.2°C	5.4	1.3	11.211 h
June	22.7°C9.6°C	9.6°C	1.8	0.5	11.011 h
July	22.4°C9.0°C	9.0°C	0.8	0.3	11.111 h
August	25.9°C11.1°C	11.1°C	0.2	0.1	11.511 h
September	29.7°C14.3°C	14.3°C	2.6	0.7	12.012 h
October	31.3°C16.9°C	16.9°C	24	4.3	12.513 h
November	30.1°C18.2°C	18.2°C	82	11.3	13.013 h
December	28.0°C18.0°C	18.0°C	163	17.5	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 Kwekwe

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