Chipata Weather in January

NASA POWER reanalysis for the half-degree grid cell around Chipata, 1991-2020; a grid cell is an area average and can differ from a thermometer in town by several degrees

Average highs run from 28°C on January 1 to 27°C on January 31, and lows from 19°C to 19°C. Normal precipitation for the month is 257 mm over about 28 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: 27°C
Average low: 19°C
Precipitation: 257 mm
Reanalysis high: 36°CJan 1, 2000
Reanalysis low: 15°CJan 1, 2018
Daylight: 12 h 55 min to 12 h 42 min
Cloud cover: 87%
Humidity: 82%
Dew point: 19°C
Wind: 10.1 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	28°C	19°C	36°C 2000	15°C 2018	90%
Jan 2	28°C	19°C	34°C 2000	18°C 2018	90%
Jan 3	28°C	19°C	32°C 2016	18°C 2008	91%
Jan 4	28°C	19°C	33°C 2004	17°C 2001	90%
Jan 5	28°C	19°C	33°C 2016	17°C 2002	91%
Jan 6	28°C	19°C	33°C 2016	17°C 2018	91%
Jan 7	28°C	19°C	33°C 2000	17°C 1996	92%
Jan 8	27°C	19°C	34°C 2016	17°C 1996	92%
Jan 9	27°C	19°C	32°C 2018	18°C 1996	93%
Jan 10	27°C	19°C	32°C 2016	17°C 1995	94%
Jan 11	27°C	19°C	33°C 2016	17°C 2015	95%
Jan 12	27°C	19°C	33°C 2016	17°C 2018	94%
Jan 13	27°C	19°C	32°C 2010	17°C 2018	94%
Jan 14	27°C	19°C	31°C 2004	16°C 1993	94%
Jan 15	27°C	19°C	33°C 1992	16°C 2003	93%
Jan 16	27°C	19°C	32°C 2004	16°C 2003	93%
Jan 17	27°C	19°C	31°C 2003	16°C 2003	93%
Jan 18	27°C	19°C	32°C 1992	18°C 1992	93%
Jan 19	27°C	19°C	32°C 1992	18°C 1991	92%
Jan 20	27°C	19°C	31°C 2003	17°C 2018	92%
Jan 21	27°C	19°C	31°C 1992	17°C 1999	92%
Jan 22	27°C	19°C	32°C 2016	17°C 2011	92%
Jan 23	27°C	19°C	31°C 2016	17°C 2018	92%
Jan 24	27°C	19°C	31°C 2018	17°C 2010	92%
Jan 25	27°C	19°C	32°C 2000	17°C 2002	92%
Jan 26	27°C	19°C	32°C 2000	16°C 2002	92%
Jan 27	27°C	19°C	29°C 2003	17°C 2002	92%
Jan 28	27°C	19°C	29°C 1991	17°C 2009	92%
Jan 29	27°C	19°C	30°C 2000	17°C 2001	91%
Jan 30	27°C	19°C	29°C 1992	17°C 2002	91%
Jan 31	27°C	19°C	28°C 2006	17°C 2009	91%

Chance of rain

Chance of a wet day

Sunrise and sunset

Times for 2026, local time (GMT+2).

January 1: sunrise 5:25 AM, sunset 6:20 PM
January 31: sunrise 5:42 AM, sunset 6:24 PM

Every day of January: sun and moon

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 2026-09-25. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.