Lusaka weather by month & the best time to visit
🇿🇲 Zambia · major city break · Mediterranean climate
The best time to visit Lusaka is June — its sunniest month (Sunshine Score 97/100), with July and August close behind. Lusaka averages about 3,066 hours of sunshine a year. Daytime highs around 24°C / 75°F and roughly 1 mm of rain in June.
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- Sun hours / year
- 3,066
- Sunniest month
- June
- Peak score
- 97/100
- Rain / year
- 769 mm
- Midday UV at peak
- 11 (extreme)
- Population
- 2.2M
- Elevation
- 1,144 m
When is the best time to visit Lusaka?
For sunshine, the best time to visit Lusaka is June, then July and August. The dullest month is January (70/100, 200 mm of rain). The full month-by-month picture is in the table below.
How sunny is Lusaka?
Lusaka is one of the sunniest places on Earth: about 3,066 hours of sunshine a year. June (97/100) is noticeably better than January (70). It ranks #3 of 6 destinations in Zambia for annual sunshine, above the national median of 3,059 hours. Rain is strongly seasonal here: roughly 71% of the year's 769 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 | 18° / 64°F | 200 mm | 11 |
| February | 71 | 26° / 79°F | 18° / 64°F | 142 mm | 11 |
| March | 79 | 26° / 79°F | 17° / 63°F | 101 mm | 11 |
| April | 92 | 27° / 81°F | 15° / 59°F | 31 mm | 10 |
| May | 96 | 26° / 79°F | 12° / 54°F | 4 mm | 9 |
| June | 97 | 24° / 75°F | 10° / 50°F | 1 mm | 8 |
| July | 97 | 24° / 75°F | 9° / 48°F | 1 mm | 8 |
| August | 97 | 27° / 81°F | 11° / 52°F | 1 mm | 9 |
| September | 97 | 31° / 88°F | 15° / 59°F | 2 mm | 10 |
| October | 86 | 33° / 91°F | 18° / 64°F | 10 mm | 11 |
| November | 83 | 32° / 90°F | 19° / 66°F | 75 mm | 11 |
| December | 70 | 28° / 82°F | 19° / 66°F | 201 mm | 11 |
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Nearby places for sunshine
- Harare Zimbabwe · 403 km · best in Aug · 3,184 h sun/yr
- Lubumbashi Congo - Kinshasa · 428 km · best in May · 2,978 h sun/yr
- Gaborone Botswana · 1,059 km · best in Jul · 3,481 h sun/yr
- Johannesburg South Africa · 1,202 km · best in Aug · 3,287 h sun/yr
- Maputo Mozambique · 1,253 km · best in Jul · 2,689 h sun/yr
- Windhoek Namibia · 1,401 km · best in Jun · 3,829 h sun/yr
Nearest destinations
- Kariba Zimbabwe · 140 km · 3,162 h sun/yr · best in Jun
- Ndola Zambia · 263 km · 3,023 h sun/yr · best in Jun
- Livingstone Zambia · 394 km · 3,263 h sun/yr · best in May
- Victoria Falls Zimbabwe · 415 km · 3,331 h sun/yr · best in May
- Solwesi Zambia · 417 km · 2,948 h sun/yr · best in May
Head-to-head
How Lusaka compares month by month: Lusaka vs Lubumbashi · Lusaka vs Harare · Lusaka vs Gaborone · all comparisons
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