Bulawayo weather by month & the best time to visit
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · city break · semi-arid climate
The best time to visit Bulawayo is May — its sunniest month (Sunshine Score 98/100), with June and July close behind. Bulawayo averages about 3,291 hours of sunshine a year. Daytime highs around 24°C / 75°F and roughly 6 mm of rain in May.
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- Sun hours / year
- 3,291
- Sunniest month
- May
- Peak score
- 98/100
- Rain / year
- 628 mm
- Midday UV at peak
- 13 (extreme)
- Population
- 699k
- Elevation
- 1,329 m
When is the best time to visit Bulawayo?
For sunshine, the best time to visit Bulawayo is May, then June and July. The dullest month is December (72/100, 144 mm of rain). The full month-by-month picture is in the table below.
How sunny is Bulawayo?
Bulawayo is one of the sunniest places on Earth: about 3,291 hours of sunshine a year. May (98/100) is noticeably better than December (72). It ranks #2 of 4 destinations in Zimbabwe for annual sunshine, above the national median of 3,238 hours. Rain is strongly seasonal here: roughly 62% of the year's 628 mm falls in the three months around January.
Sunshine Score by month
| Month | Score | Day high | Night low | Rain | UV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 76 | 29° / 84°F | 16° / 61°F | 126 mm | 13 |
| February | 77 | 29° / 84°F | 16° / 61°F | 119 mm | 12 |
| March | 84 | 28° / 82°F | 15° / 59°F | 79 mm | 11 |
| April | 93 | 26° / 79°F | 12° / 54°F | 31 mm | 9 |
| May | 98 | 24° / 75°F | 9° / 48°F | 6 mm | 8 |
| June | 98 | 22° / 72°F | 7° / 45°F | 3 mm | 6 |
| July | 98 | 22° / 72°F | 6° / 43°F | 2 mm | 6 |
| August | 98 | 26° / 79°F | 9° / 48°F | 1 mm | 8 |
| September | 97 | 30° / 86°F | 12° / 54°F | 7 mm | 9 |
| October | 94 | 32° / 90°F | 15° / 59°F | 27 mm | 10 |
| November | 83 | 31° / 88°F | 16° / 61°F | 83 mm | 11 |
| December | 72 | 29° / 84°F | 17° / 63°F | 144 mm | 12 |
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Nearby places for sunshine
- Harare Zimbabwe · 348 km · best in Aug · 3,184 h sun/yr
- Lusaka Zambia · 521 km · best in Jun · 3,066 h sun/yr
- Gaborone Botswana · 576 km · best in Jul · 3,481 h sun/yr
- Johannesburg South Africa · 682 km · best in Aug · 3,287 h sun/yr
- Maputo Mozambique · 771 km · best in Jul · 2,689 h sun/yr
- Lubumbashi Congo - Kinshasa · 944 km · best in May · 2,978 h sun/yr
Nearest destinations
- Francistown Botswana · 175 km · 3,314 h sun/yr · best in Jul
- Victoria Falls Zimbabwe · 362 km · 3,331 h sun/yr · best in May
- Livingstone Zambia · 383 km · 3,263 h sun/yr · best in May
- Kariba Zimbabwe · 390 km · 3,162 h sun/yr · best in Jun
- Polokwane South Africa · 434 km · 3,098 h sun/yr · best in Jul
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