Climate and average weather in Bocoio

In Bocoio, the weather is hot, wet, and mostly clear and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around March.

Best: early May to early September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Bocoio typically varies from 13°C to 29°C, and is rarely below 11°C or above 31°C. September is the hottest month of the year, while December is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Bocoio for warm-weather activities is from early May to early September.

Hottest
Sep
29°
Coldest
Dec
17°
Wettest
Mar
256 mm
Driest
Jul
0 mm
Rain / yr
1340 mm
155 wet days
Daylight
11.3–12.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
972 m
12.5°S
Clearest
Jun
12% cloud

Bocoio weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around early May to early September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Bocoio, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in Bocoio stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is September, with an average high of 29°C and low of 15°C; the coolest is December, with an average low of 17°C and high of 25°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 16°C) in August.

10°15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2517
Feb2617
Mar2617
Apr2717
May2816
Jun2813
Jul2813
Aug2913
Sep2915
Oct2817
Nov2617
Dec2517

Average hourly temperature in Bocoio

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on September afternoons, near 29°C, and coldest before dawn in December, near 17°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Bocoio weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan25° / 17°14317.412.75.3
Feb26° / 17°15916.612.45.1
Mar26° / 17°25624.312.14.3
Apr27° / 17°15919.911.74.9
May28° / 16°14311.47.7
Jun28° / 13°00.111.38.8
Jul28° / 13°0011.38.3
Aug29° / 13°20.311.67.6
Sep29° / 15°276.411.96.4
Oct28° / 17°13520.812.34.8
Nov26° / 17°24724.912.64.2
Dec25° / 17°19920.812.74.8

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Bocoio gets about 1340 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 6.9 months, from around Sep 29 to Apr 27, peaking in November at about 86% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 16.

March is the wettest month by volume, with 256 mm over about 24 wet days; July is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetNov 4 · 86%Jun 16 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan5617
Feb5917
Mar7824
Apr6520
May113
Jun00
Jul00
Aug10
Sep226
Oct6721
Nov8325
Dec6821

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Bocoio collects about 1340 mm of rain across 155 wet days — roughly 112 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. March is the wettest month with 256 mm, while July is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 52% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1431592561591400227135247199
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan14317
Feb15917
Mar25624
Apr15920
May143
Jun00
Jul00
Aug20
Sep276
Oct13521
Nov24725
Dec19921

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Bocoio, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows significant seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around April 23 and lasts for 5.7 months, ending around October 13. The clearest month is June, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 96% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 14 and lasts for 6.3 months, ending around April 22. The cloudiest month is March, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 88% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJun 17 · 97%Mar 19 · 10%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1585
Feb1684
Mar1288
Apr4060
May8515
Jun964
Jul955
Aug928
Sep8614
Oct4753
Nov1684
Dec1387

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. The longest day, around January 1, brings about 12 h 42 min of light; the shortest, around May 27, only 11 h 18 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan12.75:536:33
Feb12.46:066:30
Mar12.16:116:16
Apr11.76:125:55
May11.46:175:43
Jun11.36:265:42
Jul11.36:295:49
Aug11.66:205:55
Sep11.96:005:56
Oct12.35:405:57
Nov12.65:316:06
Dec12.75:386:21

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Bocoio averages about 12 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 28 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.3 months, from around Apr 29 to Oct 6. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 27 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is March, down near 1 sunny days — about 96% fewer than the June peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJun 2228 daysMar 191 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan2Gloomy
Feb2Gloomy
Mar1Gloomy
Apr6Gloomy
May21Bright
Jun27Brilliant
Jul28Brilliant
Aug25Brilliant
Sep19Bright
Oct7Gloomy
Nov2Gloomy
Dec1Gloomy

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Bocoio, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 7.2 months, from around October 2 to May 8. The muggiest month is March, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 96% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around May 9 to October 1, and July is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 13 · 100%Mar 26 · 1%muggycomfortablehumiddryhumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan2136223
Feb3135132
Mar044155
Apr164746
May1840366
Jun722530
Jul91900
Aug663400
Sep1960210
Oct0176518
Nov045045
Dec085933

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Wind in Bocoio is steady company: average speeds sit near 5 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmJun 20 · 6 km/hNov 10 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb5calm
Mar4calm
Apr4calm
May5calm
Jun6calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct5calm
Nov4calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Bocoio

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Bocoio's rainy season runs October–April, when most of the year's rain falls.

Rainy season
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Bocoio

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Bocoio throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around late August, Bocoio is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Bocoio for general outdoor tourist activities is from early May to early September, with a peak score in the third week of June.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 18 · 8.8

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan5.3fair
Feb5.1fair
Mar4.3fair
Apr5.0fair
May7.6ideal
Jun8.7ideal
Jul8.3ideal
Aug7.5ideal
Sep6.4good
Oct4.8fair
Nov4.2fair
Dec4.8fair

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Bocoio for hot-weather activities is from early May to late September, with a peak score in the first week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 6 · 9.3

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Bocoio, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

Bocoio packs about the same all year — highs hold near 29°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, sun protection and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In September, Bocoio sees daytime highs around 29°C and nights near 15°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 6 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Bocoio

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea at the nearest coast (about 68 km away) is warmest in March at about 28°C and coldest in August near 20°C.

The water stays above 20°C all year — warm enough for a swim any month.

20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccoolrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan26Warm
Feb27Warm
Mar28Warm
Apr27Warm
May26Warm
Jun23Refreshing
Jul22Refreshing
Aug20Refreshing
Sep21Refreshing
Oct24Refreshing
Nov26Warm
Dec26Warm

UV index (midday) in Bocoio by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Bocoio peaks around January 18 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near August 13 at about 8 (very high).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highExtremeJan 18UV 15Aug 13UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan15Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May10Very high
Jun9Very high
Jul8Very high
Aug8Very high
Sep10Very high
Oct12Extreme
Nov14Extreme
Dec13Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Bocoio

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in January the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 9 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 7 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan97
Feb8.56.5
Mar8.56.5
Apr86
May75
Jun6.54
Jul6.54
Aug6.53.5
Sep7.55
Oct86
Nov8.56.5
Dec8.56.5

Air quality in Bocoio by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Bocoio is worst in August — around 69 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 7.8× the cleanest month (December, 9 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

020406080JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModeratePoorUnhealthyPoorModerateGoodAug 1367 µg/m³Dec 189 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan9Good
Feb10Good
Mar11Good
Apr12Good
May21Moderate
Jun36Poor
Jul61Unhealthy
Aug69Unhealthy
Sep44Poor
Oct23Moderate
Nov9Good
Dec9Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Bocoio is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Bocoio banks about 4,149 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around October.

01,0002,0003,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan341
Feb321
Mar365
Apr365
May367
Jun317
Jul320
Aug335
Sep352
Oct379
Nov347
Dec342

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Bocoio receives about 5.6 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 5.1 and 6.3 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseSep 106.3 kWhMar 225.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.6Bright
Feb5.6Bright
Mar5.2Bright
Apr5.4Bright
May5.5Bright
Jun5.5Bright
Jul5.6Bright
Aug6.0Intense
Sep6.3Intense
Oct5.8Bright
Nov5.2Bright
Dec5.3Bright

Where is Bocoio?

Bocoio sits at 12.5°S, 14.1°E, 972 m above sea level, in Angola. The nearest listed city is Cubal do Lumbo, 18 km away.

Topography around Bocoio

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Bocoio.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Bocoio has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 134 m around an average of 963 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,333 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,559 m.

The land around Bocoio is covered by cropland (51%) and shrubs (30%) within 3 km, shrubs (48%) and cropland (25%) within 16 km, and shrubs (49%) within 80 km.

3 km
134 m
16 km
1,333 m
80 km
2,559 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Cubal do Lumbo 18 km · Catumbela 64 km · Cubal 64 km · Lobito 66 km · Chindumbo 68 km · Balombo 70 km · Benguela 81 km · Ganda 81 km

Angola travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / F
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 35% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$3,129
2025
Happiness
3.8 / 10
World Happiness, 2017
Homicide rate
4.1
per 100k, 2016
Road deaths
26.1
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Lower middle
World Bank
English
Very low
EF EPI 413
Religion
Roman Catholic 41%Protestant 38%none 12%other 9%

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Bocoio (-12.4702°, 14.1369°, elevation 972 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. Sea temperatures are the NOAA OISST v2.1 1991–2020 monthly climatology (public domain), sampled at the nearest ocean point. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).