Weather in Dar es Salaam, month by month

Warmest month
March, 28
Coldest month
July, 24.9
Wettest month
April, 258 mm
Year
2001-2020
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Across the 2001-2020 normals, the warmest month in Dar es Salaam is March at 28 degrees and the coldest is July at 24.9, a swing of 3 degrees over the year. Those are monthly averages for the model cell the city sits in, not readings from a weather station in it.

Rain is heaviest in April, about 258 mm, and lightest in July at roughly 12 mm. Over a full year the cell above Dar es Salaam collects around 1,131 mm.

No month in Dar es Salaam averages between 15 and 24 degrees, so the year does not pass through what this page calls mild at all.

Humidity peaks in April at 81 percent, and the windiest month is July at 5.3 metres per second. Both are monthly means from the same twenty year series as the temperatures.

Rainfall is not spread evenly: 76 per cent of the year total falls in December, January, February, March, April and May.

Every figure here comes from one NASA POWER grid cell, at -6.82, 39.27, covering Dar es Salaam on the 2001-2020 climatology. One cell, one period and one provider for every month, which is what makes the twelve rows comparable with each other.

The source publishes a monthly mean and, separately, the highest and lowest values it recorded in twenty years. Those extremes are not a typical afternoon or a typical night, so nothing here is quoted as one. This page does not say what the daytime high usually is, because this source cannot say it.

Normals are not a forecast. They describe what twenty years averaged to, and any single year can sit well outside them. They also describe a model grid cell of roughly fifty kilometres rather than a weather station, so a coastal city and the sea beside it share one figure.

Weather in Dar es Salaam, month by month

MonthMean temperatureRainfallHumidity
January27.890 mm77%
February2880 mm77%
March28155 mm79%
April27.4258 mm81%
May26.4151 mm80%
June25.424 mm76%
July24.912 mm73%
August25.114 mm73%
September25.724 mm72%
October26.768 mm73%
November27.4128 mm76%
December27.9127 mm77%

Questions

What is the warmest month in Dar es Salaam?

March, on the 2001-2020 monthly averages.

What is the coldest month in Dar es Salaam?

July, on the same twenty year series.

When does it rain most in Dar es Salaam?

April carries the highest monthly total in the 2001-2020 normals.

Weather in Zanzibar, month by month

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Sources

  • NASA POWER, https://power.larc.nasa.gov/api/temporal/climatology/point (CC BY 4.0; 'There are no restrictions on the use, access, and/or download of data from the NASA POWER Project' (AWS Open Data Registry entry))