Climate averages 1991–2020
Ruwa 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.
January is a warm month in Ruwa: daytime highs average 23.9°C and nights cool to about 15.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 206 mm of rain on roughly 20 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 Harare (21 km away). In January its highs average 24.5°C, 0.7°C warmer than Ruwa, with 217 mm of rain.
Among the 11 cities listed in Zimbabwe, Ruwa ranks 11th of 11 for the warmest January highs and 9th of 11 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 11 cities is 25.9°C; Ruwa is 2.0°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 23.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 206 mm to 140 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
Ruwa climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January, selected | 23.9°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 206 | 19.6 | 13.113 h |
| February | 23.9°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 140 | 14.5 | 12.713 h |
| March | 23.7°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 93 | 11.6 | 12.212 h |
| April | 22.7°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 34 | 5.4 | 11.712 h |
| May | 21.4°C9.7°C | 9.7°C | 8.0 | 1.6 | 11.311 h |
| June | 19.6°C7.5°C | 7.5°C | 2.2 | 0.7 | 11.111 h |
| July | 19.3°C6.9°C | 6.9°C | 1.0 | 0.2 | 11.211 h |
| August | 22.5°C8.6°C | 8.6°C | 0.9 | 0.3 | 11.512 h |
| September | 25.8°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 3.9 | 0.8 | 12.012 h |
| October | 27.1°C14.0°C | 14.0°C | 31 | 5.5 | 12.512 h |
| November | 26.2°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 100 | 13.0 | 12.913 h |
| December | 24.3°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 193 | 19.6 | 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
- Harare in JanuaryZimbabwe · 21 kmHigh 24.5°C · Low 16.4°C · 217 mm rain
- Chitungwiza in JanuaryZimbabwe · 23 kmHigh 24.9°C · Low 16.5°C · 196 mm rain
- Norton in JanuaryZimbabwe · 58 kmHigh 25.4°C · Low 17.4°C · 192 mm rain
- Chinhoyi in JanuaryZimbabwe · 125 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 18.6°C · 216 mm rain
- Kadoma in JanuaryZimbabwe · 149 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 18.7°C · 186 mm rain
- Kwekwe in JanuaryZimbabwe · 190 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 18.0°C · 146 mm rain
- Mutare in JanuaryZimbabwe · 193 kmHigh 25.8°C · Low 17.8°C · 201 mm rain
- Gweru in JanuaryZimbabwe · 230 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 16.4°C · 161 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 Ruwa) is explained once on the Ruwa year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.