Lilongwe weather by month & the best time to visit
🇲🇼 Malawi · city break · Mediterranean climate
The best time to visit Lilongwe is June — its sunniest month (Sunshine Score 96/100), with July and August close behind. Lilongwe averages about 2,943 hours of sunshine a year. Daytime highs around 22°C / 72°F and roughly 2 mm of rain in June.
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- Sun hours / year
- 2,943
- Sunniest month
- June
- Peak score
- 96/100
- Rain / year
- 1,047 mm
- Midday UV at peak
- 12 (extreme)
- Population
- 1.1M
- Elevation
- 1,224 m
When is the best time to visit Lilongwe?
For sunshine, the best time to visit Lilongwe is June, then July and August. The dullest month is January (69/100, 307 mm of rain). The full month-by-month picture is in the table below.
How sunny is Lilongwe?
Lilongwe gets a lot of sun: around 2,943 hours a year. June (96/100) is noticeably better than January (69). It is the sunnier of the two destinations tracked in Malawi. Rain is strongly seasonal here: roughly 73% of the year's 1,047 mm falls in the three months around January.
Sunshine Score by month
| Month | Score | Day high | Night low | Rain | UV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 69 | 25° / 77°F | 17° / 63°F | 307 mm | 11 |
| February | 69 | 25° / 77°F | 17° / 63°F | 216 mm | 12 |
| March | 69 | 25° / 77°F | 16° / 61°F | 151 mm | 11 |
| April | 89 | 24° / 75°F | 14° / 57°F | 40 mm | 11 |
| May | 95 | 24° / 75°F | 11° / 52°F | 6 mm | 9 |
| June | 96 | 22° / 72°F | 9° / 48°F | 2 mm | 8 |
| July | 96 | 22° / 72°F | 9° / 48°F | 3 mm | 8 |
| August | 96 | 25° / 77°F | 10° / 50°F | 2 mm | 9 |
| September | 96 | 29° / 84°F | 14° / 57°F | 3 mm | 10 |
| October | 94 | 31° / 88°F | 17° / 63°F | 12 mm | 11 |
| November | 85 | 31° / 88°F | 18° / 64°F | 63 mm | 12 |
| December | 69 | 27° / 81°F | 18° / 64°F | 242 mm | 11 |
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Nearby places for sunshine
- Harare Zimbabwe · 543 km · best in Aug · 3,184 h sun/yr
- Lusaka Zambia · 598 km · best in Jun · 3,066 h sun/yr
- Lubumbashi Congo - Kinshasa · 721 km · best in May · 2,978 h sun/yr
- Dar es Salaam Tanzania · 971 km · best in Jul · 2,837 h sun/yr
- Zanzibar Tanzania · 1,031 km · best in Jul · 2,836 h sun/yr
- Moroni Comoros · 1,060 km · best in Aug · 3,029 h sun/yr
Nearest destinations
- Lichinga Mozambique · 170 km · 2,638 h sun/yr · best in Jun
- Mfuwe Zambia · 208 km · 3,052 h sun/yr · best in May
- Blantyre Malawi · 246 km · 2,827 h sun/yr · best in Aug
- Tete Mozambique · 258 km · 2,963 h sun/yr · best in Aug
- Kasama Zambia · 492 km · 3,082 h sun/yr · best in Jun
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