Livingstone weather by month & the best time to visit
🇿🇲 Zambia · regional city · semi-arid climate
The best time to visit Livingstone is May — its sunniest month (Sunshine Score 98/100), with July and August close behind. Livingstone averages about 3,263 hours of sunshine a year. Daytime highs around 28°C / 82°F and roughly 2 mm of rain in May.
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- Sun hours / year
- 3,263
- Sunniest month
- May
- Peak score
- 98/100
- Rain / year
- 611 mm
- Midday UV at peak
- 12 (extreme)
- Population
- 178k
- Elevation
- 989 m
When is the best time to visit Livingstone?
For sunshine, the best time to visit Livingstone is May, then July and August. The dullest month is October (58/100, 12 mm of rain). The full month-by-month picture is in the table below.
How sunny is Livingstone?
Livingstone is one of the sunniest places on Earth: about 3,263 hours of sunshine a year. May (98/100) is noticeably better than October (58). Livingstone is the sunniest of the 6 destinations tracked in Zambia. Rain is strongly seasonal here: roughly 66% of the year's 611 mm falls in the three months around January.
Sunshine Score by month
| Month | Score | Day high | Night low | Rain | UV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 73 | 31° / 88°F | 20° / 68°F | 139 mm | 12 |
| February | 75 | 30° / 86°F | 19° / 66°F | 126 mm | 12 |
| March | 82 | 30° / 86°F | 18° / 64°F | 92 mm | 11 |
| April | 92 | 30° / 86°F | 16° / 61°F | 33 mm | 10 |
| May | 98 | 28° / 82°F | 13° / 55°F | 2 mm | 8 |
| June | 97 | 26° / 79°F | 10° / 50°F | 6 mm | 7 |
| July | 98 | 26° / 79°F | 9° / 48°F | 0 mm | 7 |
| August | 98 | 30° / 86°F | 12° / 54°F | 0 mm | 8 |
| September | 78 | 34° / 93°F | 16° / 61°F | 2 mm | 9 |
| October | 58 | 36° / 97°F | 20° / 68°F | 12 mm | 11 |
| November | 61 | 35° / 95°F | 21° / 70°F | 63 mm | 11 |
| December | 74 | 31° / 88°F | 20° / 68°F | 136 mm | 11 |
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Nearby places for sunshine
- Lusaka Zambia · 394 km · best in Jun · 3,066 h sun/yr
- Harare Zimbabwe · 558 km · best in Aug · 3,184 h sun/yr
- Lubumbashi Congo - Kinshasa · 717 km · best in May · 2,978 h sun/yr
- Gaborone Botswana · 749 km · best in Jul · 3,481 h sun/yr
- Johannesburg South Africa · 958 km · best in Aug · 3,287 h sun/yr
- Windhoek Namibia · 1,013 km · best in Jun · 3,829 h sun/yr
Nearest destinations
- Victoria Falls Zimbabwe · 31 km · 3,331 h sun/yr · best in May
- Kasane Botswana · 69 km · 3,263 h sun/yr · best in May
- Katima Mulilo Namibia · 175 km · 3,317 h sun/yr · best in Jun
- Maun Botswana · 347 km · 3,464 h sun/yr · best in Jul
- Kariba Zimbabwe · 356 km · 3,162 h sun/yr · best in Jun
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