Zambia
When to go?
Mean 24 °C, 23 rain days in the month (240 mm).
Against
- Often rainyrain on 7 days in 10
Mean 24 °C, 19 rain days in the month (194 mm).
Against
- Often rainyrain on 7 days in 10
Mean 23 °C, 16 rain days in the month (167 mm).
Nothing against it.
Mean 22 °C, 6 rain days in the month (52 mm).
Nothing against it.
Mean 20 °C, 1 rain day in the month (4 mm).
Good for
- Ideal to visitTemperature and rain in the ideal range.
Mean 18 °C, it hardly ever rains (1 mm).
Good for
- Ideal to visitTemperature and rain in the ideal range.
Mean 18 °C, it hardly ever rains (1 mm).
Good for
- Ideal to visitTemperature and rain in the ideal range.
Mean 20 °C, it hardly ever rains (0 mm).
Good for
- Ideal to visitTemperature and rain in the ideal range.
Mean 24 °C, it hardly ever rains (3 mm).
Nothing against it.
Mean 26 °C, 3 rain days in the month (20 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 33 °C
Mean 25 °C, 13 rain days in the month (122 mm).
Against
- Hothighs of 31 °C
Mean 24 °C, 20 rain days in the month (224 mm).
Against
- Often rainyrain on 6 days in 10
The best months are May–August. Avoid December–February (often rainy), October–November (hot).
Climate zones
- Freezing, dry
- Freezing
- Freezing, wet
- Cold, dry
- Cold
- Cold, wet
- Mild, dry
- Mild
- Mild, wet
- Hot, arid
- Hot
- Hot, wet
- Torrid, arid
- Torrid
- Torrid, wet
Mean maximum and minimum temperature and mean monthly precipitation of the season (the mean of its three months), ERA5-Land 1996–2025, at about 9 km resolution: colours are in levels (the same as the city scale) and smaller details are not real.
What is the climate like?
Area mean indicative, over the whole territory
Temperature and rain
Monthly min and max temperature (°C)
Monthly min and max temperature (°C)
How much it rains
Rain days and how much water
Rain days and how much water
Bars: length = rain days, thickness = mm on a rain day, area = the month's rain. 3 mm a day7 mm a day15 mm a day
Colour = the month's rain: 103060100160250400mm
Daylight hours
Mean daylight hours over the whole territory.
Spatial mean over the whole area, weighted by area (cosine of the latitude), not by population: indicative only, since the climate varies a lot within an area (coasts, plains, mountains). Look at the cities for the weather you will find.