Harare weather by month & the best time to visit
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · city break · humid subtropical climate
The best time to visit Harare is August — its sunniest month (Sunshine Score 98/100), with May and June close behind. Harare averages about 3,184 hours of sunshine a year. Daytime highs around 25°C / 77°F and roughly 2 mm of rain in August.
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- Sun hours / year
- 3,184
- Sunniest month
- August
- Peak score
- 98/100
- Rain / year
- 788 mm
- Midday UV at peak
- 13 (extreme)
- Population
- 1.6M
- Elevation
- 1,480 m
When is the best time to visit Harare?
For sunshine, the best time to visit Harare is August, then May and June. The dullest month is January (70/100, 180 mm of rain). The full month-by-month picture is in the table below.
How sunny is Harare?
Harare is one of the sunniest places on Earth: about 3,184 hours of sunshine a year. August (98/100) is noticeably better than January (70). It ranks #3 of 4 destinations in Zimbabwe for annual sunshine, below the national median of 3,238 hours. Rain is strongly seasonal here: roughly 64% of the year's 788 mm falls in the three months around January.
Sunshine Score by month
| Month | Score | Day high | Night low | Rain | UV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 70 | 27° / 81°F | 15° / 59°F | 180 mm | 12 |
| February | 74 | 26° / 79°F | 15° / 59°F | 133 mm | 13 |
| March | 81 | 26° / 79°F | 14° / 57°F | 94 mm | 12 |
| April | 92 | 25° / 77°F | 11° / 52°F | 31 mm | 10 |
| May | 97 | 23° / 73°F | 8° / 46°F | 7 mm | 9 |
| June | 97 | 21° / 70°F | 6° / 43°F | 3 mm | 7 |
| July | 94 | 21° / 70°F | 6° / 43°F | 19 mm | 7 |
| August | 98 | 25° / 77°F | 8° / 46°F | 2 mm | 9 |
| September | 97 | 28° / 82°F | 11° / 52°F | 5 mm | 10 |
| October | 93 | 30° / 86°F | 14° / 57°F | 25 mm | 11 |
| November | 81 | 29° / 84°F | 15° / 59°F | 94 mm | 12 |
| December | 70 | 27° / 81°F | 16° / 61°F | 195 mm | 12 |
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Nearby places for sunshine
- Lusaka Zambia · 403 km · best in Jun · 3,066 h sun/yr
- Lubumbashi Congo - Kinshasa · 802 km · best in May · 2,978 h sun/yr
- Maputo Mozambique · 901 km · best in Jul · 2,689 h sun/yr
- Gaborone Botswana · 911 km · best in Jul · 3,481 h sun/yr
- Johannesburg South Africa · 959 km · best in Aug · 3,287 h sun/yr
- Durban South Africa · 1,299 km · best in Jun · 2,503 h sun/yr
Nearest destinations
- Chimoio Mozambique · 281 km · 2,878 h sun/yr · best in Aug
- Kariba Zimbabwe · 282 km · 3,162 h sun/yr · best in Jun
- Tete Mozambique · 339 km · 2,963 h sun/yr · best in Aug
- Bulawayo Zimbabwe · 348 km · 3,291 h sun/yr · best in May
- Beira Mozambique · 452 km · 2,860 h sun/yr · best in Aug
Head-to-head
How Harare compares month by month: Harare vs Lubumbashi · Harare vs Lusaka · Harare vs Maputo · all comparisons
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