Tete weather by month & the best time to visit

🇲🇿 Mozambique · regional city · tropical — wet & dry seasons climate

The best time to visit Tete is August — its sunniest month (Sunshine Score 96/100), with May and June close behind. Tete averages about 2,963 hours of sunshine a year. Daytime highs around 32°C / 90°F and roughly 3 mm of rain in August.

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Sun hours / year

2,963

Sunniest month

August

Peak score

96/100

Rain / year

852 mm

Midday UV at peak

12 (extreme)

Population

357k

Elevation

146 m

When is the best time to visit Tete?

For sunshine, the best time to visit Tete is August, then May and June. The dullest month is October (28/100, 10 mm of rain). The full month-by-month picture is in the table below.

How sunny is Tete?

Tete gets a lot of sun: around 2,963 hours a year. 68 Sunshine Score points separate August (96) from October (28), so the month you pick matters. It ranks #4 of 12 destinations in Mozambique for annual sunshine, above the national median of 2,918 hours. Rain is strongly seasonal here: roughly 69% of the year's 852 mm falls in the three months around January.

Sunshine Score by month

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Nearby places for sunshine

• Harare Zimbabwe · 339 km · best in Aug · 3,184 h sun/yr
• Lusaka Zambia · 562 km · best in Jun · 3,066 h sun/yr
• Lubumbashi Congo - Kinshasa · 829 km · best in May · 2,978 h sun/yr
• Maputo Mozambique · 1,097 km · best in Jul · 2,689 h sun/yr
• Moroni Comoros · 1,157 km · best in Aug · 3,029 h sun/yr
• Dar es Salaam Tanzania · 1,192 km · best in Jul · 2,837 h sun/yr

Nearest destinations

• Blantyre Malawi · 150 km · 2,827 h sun/yr · best in Aug
• Lilongwe Malawi · 258 km · 2,943 h sun/yr · best in Jun
• Chimoio Mozambique · 339 km · 2,878 h sun/yr · best in Aug
• Lichinga Mozambique · 360 km · 2,638 h sun/yr · best in Jun
• Mfuwe Zambia · 366 km · 3,052 h sun/yr · best in May