Moçâmedes weather by month & the best time to visit
🇦🇴 Angola · beach resort · hot desert climate
The best time to visit Moçâmedes is May — its sunniest month (Sunshine Score 99/100), with June and July close behind. Moçâmedes averages about 3,405 hours of sunshine a year. Daytime highs around 25°C / 77°F and roughly 1 mm of rain in May.
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- Sun hours / year
- 3,405
- Sunniest month
- May
- Peak score
- 99/100
- Rain / year
- 162 mm
- Midday UV at peak
- 13 (extreme)
- Sea at warmest
- 27°C / 81°F
- Population
- 255k
- Elevation
- 66 m
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When is the best time to visit Moçâmedes?
For sunshine, the best time to visit Moçâmedes is May, then June and July. The dullest month is March (90/100, 51 mm of rain). The full month-by-month picture is in the table below.
How sunny is Moçâmedes?
Moçâmedes is one of the sunniest places on Earth: about 3,405 hours of sunshine a year. Conditions barely change through the year — only 9 Sunshine Score points separate May from March. It ranks #2 of 14 destinations in Angola for annual sunshine, above the national median of 2,397 hours. Rain is strongly seasonal here: roughly 71% of the year's 162 mm falls in the three months around February.
Sunshine Score by month
| Month | Score | Day high | Night low | Rain | UV | Sea |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 94 | 24° / 75°F | 21° / 70°F | 32 mm | 13 | 25° / 77°F |
| February | 94 | 25° / 77°F | 22° / 72°F | 32 mm | 13 | 27° / 81°F |
| March | 90 | 26° / 79°F | 22° / 72°F | 51 mm | 12 | 26° / 79°F |
| April | 98 | 26° / 79°F | 21° / 70°F | 7 mm | 11 | 25° / 77°F |
| May | 99 | 25° / 77°F | 19° / 66°F | 1 mm | 9 | 25° / 77°F |
| June | 99 | 23° / 73°F | 17° / 63°F | 0 mm | 7 | 21° / 70°F |
| July | 99 | 21° / 70°F | 15° / 59°F | 2 mm | 7 | 20° / 68°F |
| August | 99 | 20° / 68°F | 15° / 59°F | 3 mm | 7 | 18° / 64°F |
| September | 98 | 20° / 68°F | 16° / 61°F | 10 mm | 9 | 20° / 68°F |
| October | 98 | 22° / 72°F | 18° / 64°F | 5 mm | 11 | 23° / 73°F |
| November | 98 | 23° / 73°F | 19° / 66°F | 8 mm | 12 | 24° / 75°F |
| December | 97 | 23° / 73°F | 20° / 68°F | 11 mm | 13 | 24° / 75°F |
Sea temperature in Moçâmedes by month
The sea off Moçâmedes is warmest in February at around 27°C / 81°F, and coolest in August at 18°C / 64°F. The water sits at a comfortable 21°C or warmer roughly 9 months a year. Month-by-month sea-surface temperatures are in the Sea column of the table above.
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Nearby places for sunshine
- Luanda (Ícolo e Bengo) Angola · 706 km · best in Jun · 2,165 h sun/yr
- Luanda Angola · 722 km · best in Jun · 2,101 h sun/yr
- Windhoek Namibia · 979 km · best in Jun · 3,829 h sun/yr
- Pointe Noire Congo - Brazzaville · 1,162 km · best in Jul · 1,577 h sun/yr
- Kinshasa Congo - Kinshasa · 1,262 km · best in Jul · 1,782 h sun/yr
- Brazzaville Congo - Brazzaville · 1,270 km · best in Jul · 1,782 h sun/yr
Nearest destinations
- Lubango Angola · 158 km · 3,356 h sun/yr · best in Jun
- Catumbela Angola · 341 km · 2,688 h sun/yr · best in Jul
- Ngiva Angola · 427 km · 3,651 h sun/yr · best in Jun
- Huambo Angola · 476 km · 2,931 h sun/yr · best in Jun
- Ondangwa Namibia · 499 km · 3,650 h sun/yr · best in May
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