Windhoek Weather in January
Average highs run from 32°C on January 1 to 31°C on January 31, and lows from 17°C to 17°C. Normal precipitation for the month is 81 mm over about 12 wet days.
January day by day
The normal high and low for each date, in °C.
- Normal low
- Normal high
- Reanalysis extreme high
- Reanalysis extreme low
January at a glance
- Average high
- 32°C
- Average low
- 17°C
- Precipitation
- 81 mm
- Reanalysis high
- 38°CJan 15, 2003
- Reanalysis low
- 5°CJan 6, 2014
- Daylight
- 13 h 30 min to 13 h 08 min
- Cloud cover
- 60%
- Humidity
- 44%
- Dew point
- 9°C
- Wind
- 13.0 km/h
Every day of the month
A wet day has at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis.
| Date | Normal high | Normal low | Reanalysis high | Reanalysis low | Chance wet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1 | 32°C | 17°C | 37°C 1996 | 10°C 1997 | 37% |
| Jan 2 | 32°C | 17°C | 37°C 1995 | 12°C 2000 | 38% |
| Jan 3 | 32°C | 17°C | 37°C 1995 | 12°C 2009 | 38% |
| Jan 4 | 32°C | 17°C | 37°C 2003 | 14°C 2009 | 39% |
| Jan 5 | 32°C | 17°C | 37°C 2003 | 9°C 2014 | 40% |
| Jan 6 | 32°C | 17°C | 37°C 2001 | 5°C 2014 | 41% |
| Jan 7 | 32°C | 17°C | 37°C 1995 | 5°C 2014 | 41% |
| Jan 8 | 32°C | 17°C | 38°C 2001 | 7°C 2014 | 42% |
| Jan 9 | 32°C | 17°C | 37°C 2001 | 8°C 2014 | 42% |
| Jan 10 | 32°C | 17°C | 37°C 2001 | 10°C 1998 | 43% |
| Jan 11 | 32°C | 17°C | 35°C 2003 | 13°C 2014 | 44% |
| Jan 12 | 32°C | 17°C | 35°C 2016 | 11°C 1995 | 45% |
| Jan 13 | 32°C | 17°C | 36°C 2019 | 10°C 1995 | 46% |
| Jan 14 | 32°C | 17°C | 37°C 2019 | 9°C 1995 | 47% |
| Jan 15 | 32°C | 17°C | 38°C 2003 | 12°C 1995 | 48% |
| Jan 16 | 32°C | 17°C | 37°C 2019 | 13°C 2000 | 49% |
| Jan 17 | 32°C | 17°C | 37°C 2003 | 11°C 2002 | 50% |
| Jan 18 | 31°C | 17°C | 37°C 2003 | 11°C 2002 | 51% |
| Jan 19 | 31°C | 17°C | 36°C 1993 | 12°C 2002 | 51% |
| Jan 20 | 31°C | 17°C | 36°C 2007 | 14°C 2002 | 49% |
| Jan 21 | 31°C | 17°C | 36°C 2003 | 14°C 2016 | 48% |
| Jan 22 | 31°C | 17°C | 37°C 1993 | 11°C 2016 | 47% |
| Jan 23 | 31°C | 17°C | 37°C 1995 | 12°C 2016 | 47% |
| Jan 24 | 31°C | 17°C | 37°C 1995 | 13°C 2016 | 46% |
| Jan 25 | 31°C | 17°C | 37°C 2019 | 11°C 2016 | 46% |
| Jan 26 | 31°C | 17°C | 37°C 1995 | 11°C 1996 | 45% |
| Jan 27 | 31°C | 17°C | 37°C 1995 | 12°C 2016 | 44% |
| Jan 28 | 31°C | 17°C | 37°C 2019 | 10°C 2000 | 44% |
| Jan 29 | 31°C | 17°C | 37°C 2020 | 12°C 2000 | 43% |
| Jan 30 | 31°C | 17°C | 36°C 2020 | 11°C 2000 | 43% |
| Jan 31 | 31°C | 17°C | 37°C 2013 | 11°C 1997 | 44% |
Chance of rain
- Chance of a wet day
Sunrise and sunset
Times for 2026, local time (GMT+2).
- January 1
- sunrise 6:10 AM, sunset 7:40 PM
- January 31
- sunrise 6:31 AM, sunset 7:39 PM
Other months
Sources
Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine, and temperature and precipitation: NASA POWER (MERRA-2, CERES and GEWEX SRB), 1991-2020. The data was obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project funded through the NASA Earth Science Division: POWER Daily API v2, accessed 2026-09-24. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.