Kariba weather by month & the best time to visit
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe · small town · semi-arid climate
The best time to visit Kariba is June — its sunniest month (Sunshine Score 98/100), with July and August close behind. Kariba averages about 3,162 hours of sunshine a year. Daytime highs around 28°C / 82°F and roughly 1 mm of rain in June.
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- Sun hours / year
- 3,162
- Sunniest month
- June
- Peak score
- 98/100
- Rain / year
- 743 mm
- Midday UV at peak
- 12 (extreme)
- Population
- 28k
- Elevation
- 514 m
When is the best time to visit Kariba?
For sunshine, the best time to visit Kariba is June, then July and August. The dullest month is October (58/100, 8 mm of rain). The full month-by-month picture is in the table below.
How sunny is Kariba?
Kariba is one of the sunniest places on Earth: about 3,162 hours of sunshine a year. June (98/100) is noticeably better than October (58). It ranks #4 of 4 destinations in Zimbabwe for annual sunshine, below the national median of 3,238 hours. Rain is strongly seasonal here: roughly 73% of the year's 743 mm falls in the three months around January.
Sunshine Score by month
| Month | Score | Day high | Night low | Rain | UV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 70 | 31° / 88°F | 24° / 75°F | 209 mm | 12 |
| February | 70 | 30° / 86°F | 24° / 75°F | 154 mm | 12 |
| March | 79 | 31° / 88°F | 23° / 73°F | 100 mm | 11 |
| April | 94 | 32° / 90°F | 22° / 72°F | 20 mm | 10 |
| May | 97 | 30° / 86°F | 19° / 66°F | 2 mm | 9 |
| June | 98 | 28° / 82°F | 16° / 61°F | 1 mm | 7 |
| July | 98 | 28° / 82°F | 16° / 61°F | 0 mm | 7 |
| August | 98 | 30° / 86°F | 18° / 64°F | 0 mm | 9 |
| September | 88 | 33° / 91°F | 21° / 70°F | 0 mm | 10 |
| October | 58 | 36° / 97°F | 25° / 77°F | 8 mm | 11 |
| November | 60 | 35° / 95°F | 26° / 79°F | 67 mm | 11 |
| December | 70 | 32° / 90°F | 25° / 77°F | 182 mm | 11 |
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Nearby places for sunshine
- Lusaka Zambia · 140 km · best in Jun · 3,066 h sun/yr
- Harare Zimbabwe · 282 km · best in Aug · 3,184 h sun/yr
- Lubumbashi Congo - Kinshasa · 567 km · best in May · 2,978 h sun/yr
- Gaborone Botswana · 945 km · best in Jul · 3,481 h sun/yr
- Johannesburg South Africa · 1,072 km · best in Aug · 3,287 h sun/yr
- Maputo Mozambique · 1,113 km · best in Jul · 2,689 h sun/yr
Nearest destinations
- Livingstone Zambia · 356 km · 3,263 h sun/yr · best in May
- Victoria Falls Zimbabwe · 368 km · 3,331 h sun/yr · best in May
- Bulawayo Zimbabwe · 390 km · 3,291 h sun/yr · best in May
- Ndola Zambia · 397 km · 3,023 h sun/yr · best in Jun
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