Kasama weather by month & the best time to visit
🇿🇲 Zambia · regional city · Mediterranean climate
The best time to visit Kasama is June — its sunniest month (Sunshine Score 97/100), with July and August close behind. Kasama averages about 3,082 hours of sunshine a year. Daytime highs around 24°C / 75°F and roughly 4 mm of rain in June.
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- Sun hours / year
- 3,082
- Sunniest month
- June
- Peak score
- 97/100
- Rain / year
- 1,102 mm
- Midday UV at peak
- 12 (extreme)
- Population
- 200k
- Elevation
- 1,378 m
When is the best time to visit Kasama?
For sunshine, the best time to visit Kasama is June, then July and August. The dullest month is January (70/100, 268 mm of rain). The full month-by-month picture is in the table below.
How sunny is Kasama?
Kasama is one of the sunniest places on Earth: about 3,082 hours of sunshine a year. June (97/100) is noticeably better than January (70). It ranks #2 of 6 destinations in Zambia for annual sunshine, above the national median of 3,059 hours. Rain is strongly seasonal here: roughly 65% of the year's 1,102 mm falls in the three months around January.
Sunshine Score by month
| Month | Score | Day high | Night low | Rain | UV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 70 | 24° / 75°F | 16° / 61°F | 268 mm | 11 |
| February | 70 | 25° / 77°F | 16° / 61°F | 199 mm | 12 |
| March | 70 | 25° / 77°F | 16° / 61°F | 185 mm | 12 |
| April | 86 | 25° / 77°F | 15° / 59°F | 59 mm | 11 |
| May | 96 | 25° / 77°F | 12° / 54°F | 9 mm | 10 |
| June | 97 | 24° / 75°F | 9° / 48°F | 4 mm | 9 |
| July | 97 | 24° / 75°F | 8° / 46°F | 2 mm | 9 |
| August | 97 | 27° / 81°F | 10° / 50°F | 4 mm | 10 |
| September | 97 | 30° / 86°F | 14° / 57°F | 3 mm | 11 |
| October | 94 | 32° / 90°F | 17° / 63°F | 18 mm | 12 |
| November | 78 | 30° / 86°F | 18° / 64°F | 106 mm | 12 |
| December | 70 | 26° / 79°F | 17° / 63°F | 245 mm | 11 |
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Nearby places for sunshine
- Lubumbashi Congo - Kinshasa · 421 km · best in May · 2,978 h sun/yr
- Lusaka Zambia · 639 km · best in Jun · 3,066 h sun/yr
- Harare Zimbabwe · 859 km · best in Aug · 3,184 h sun/yr
- Kigali Rwanda · 923 km · best in Jul · 2,191 h sun/yr
- Dar es Salaam Tanzania · 963 km · best in Jul · 2,837 h sun/yr
- Zanzibar Tanzania · 996 km · best in Jul · 2,836 h sun/yr
Nearest destinations
- Mbeya Tanzania · 276 km · 3,172 h sun/yr · best in Sep
- Mfuwe Zambia · 350 km · 3,052 h sun/yr · best in May
- Ndola Zambia · 418 km · 3,023 h sun/yr · best in Jun
- Lilongwe Malawi · 492 km · 2,943 h sun/yr · best in Jun
- Kalemie Congo - Kinshasa · 524 km · 2,460 h sun/yr · best in Jun
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