Al Qadarif weather in January

Name: Al Qadarif
Address: SD

In January, Al Qadarif has daytime highs averaging 34 °C, nights around 19 °C, with 0 wet days. Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

34.2°C Average high
19.1°C Average low
0days Wet days
under 1mm Rainfall
11h Daylight

Daily temperatures through January

Daily highDaily low Day of month on the horizontal axis. Highs peak at 35.4 °C and lows bottom out at 18.2 °C.

How January develops

Averages for the first, middle and last part of the month, from daily 1991–2020 normals. Chance of rain is the share of years in which that calendar day recorded more than 1 mm.

Days	Avg high	Avg low
1–10 January	33.9 °C	19.3 °C
11–20 January	33.8 °C	18.7 °C
21–31 January	34.9 °C	19.3 °C

Chance of a wet day (over 1 mm) by date in January. Wettest date over the 30 years: January 1, at 0 %. Single dates are noisy — read the shape, not the spikes.

What to expect

Measure	Typical January	Share of the month
Days above 25 °C	31 of 31	100 %
Days above 30 °C	29 of 31	92 %
Days below 0 °C	0 of 31	0 %
Days with more than 1 mm rain	0 of 31	0 %

Conditions in January

Measure	Average
Mean temperature	26 °C
Record high (1991–2020)	40 °C
Record low (1991–2020)	11 °C
Relative humidity	30 %
Wind speed	18 km/h
Cloud cover	17 %

Where Al Qadarif ranks in January

Ranking	Position	Value
The driest places in Africa in January	25thof 50	0.04 mm
The driest places in the world in January	25thof 50	0.04 mm
The warmest places in Africa in January	27thof 50	34 °C
The warmest places in the world in January	28thof 50	34 °C

January compared with the months around it

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	34.2 °C	under 1 mm	17 %
February	36.4 °C	under 1 mm	18 %
March	38.7 °C	1 mm	20 %
November	36.5 °C	2 mm	16 %
December	34.9 °C	under 1 mm	15 %

See all twelve months for Al Qadarif

January is the 9th warmest month here.
It is the 1st driest month of the year.
It ranks 3rd for least cloud cover.
Days last about 11 hours from sunrise to sunset.
It rains on 0 of 31 days — 0 % of the month.
Nights are about 15 °C cooler than the middle of the day.
The hottest January day on record since 1991 reached 40 °C, 6.1 °C above the usual daytime high.

Nearby destinations in January

Destination	Avg high	Wet days
Al Qadarif	34 °C	0
Singa	34 °C	0
Kassala	33 °C	0
Wad Medani	33 °C	0
Ad-Damazin	33 °C	0
Gonder	25 °C	1
Kosti	33 °C	0
Bahir Dar	25 °C	1

QuestionsJanuary in Al Qadarif, answered

How warm is Al Qadarif in January?

Daily highs average 34 °C and nights fall to about 19 °C, a spread of 15 °C between afternoon and dawn. That makes January the 11th warmest month of the year here.

Does it rain much in Al Qadarif in January?

January averages under 1 mm of rain, spread over about 0 of the 31 days — 0 % of the month. Cloud cover averages 17 % of the sky.

How long are the days in January?

Al Qadarif averages 11 hours between sunrise and sunset in January. Day length is computed from latitude and date, so it is exact rather than modelled — but it says nothing about how much of that time is sunny.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: daylight hours, beach and comfort scores, monthly rankings, threshold day counts, chance of a wet day by date, ten-day averages within the month. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.