Climate and average weather in Cahama

In Cahama, the summers are sweltering, fairly dry, and mostly clear and the winters are warm and clear.

Best: mid May to early August

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Cahama typically varies from 11°C to 34°C, and is rarely below 9°C or above 37°C. October is the hottest month of the year, while June is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Oct
34°
Coldest
Jun
11°
Wettest
Mar
125 mm
Driest
Jun
0 mm
Rain / yr
542 mm
75 wet days
Daylight
11.0–13.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,127 m
16.3°S
Clearest
Jun
6% cloud

Cahama 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 mid May to early August.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Cahama stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is October, with an average high of 34°C and low of 17°C; the coolest is June, with an average low of 11°C and high of 27°C.

Days typically run about 14°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 18°C) in September.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3018
Feb2918
Mar2818
Apr2917
May2914
Jun2711
Jul2711
Aug3013
Sep3315
Oct3417
Nov3218
Dec3118

How hot and cold Cahama really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Cahama feels like about 34°C (around October 6). About 84 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in October.

10°15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan30301818
Feb29291818
Mar29281818
Apr29291717
May29291414
Jun27271111
Jul27271111
Aug30301313
Sep33331515
Oct34341717
Nov32321818
Dec31311818

Average hourly temperature in Cahama

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 October afternoons, near 34°C, and coldest before dawn in June, near 11°C.

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

Cahama 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
Jan30° / 18°9912.412.94.4
Feb29° / 18°1171312.54.6
Mar28° / 18°12517.112.14.8
Apr29° / 17°346.611.66.1
May29° / 14°10.111.37.3
Jun27° / 11°00119.0
Jul27° / 11°0011.18.8
Aug30° / 13°0011.56.6
Sep33° / 15°30.511.94.6
Oct34° / 17°20412.43.6
Nov32° / 18°569.912.83.9
Dec31° / 18°8811.1134.2

Chance of rain

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

Cahama gets about 542 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 5.7 months, from around Oct 26 to Apr 16, peaking in March at about 57% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around May 18.

March is the wettest month by volume, with 125 mm over about 17 wet days; June is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMar 18 · 57%May 18 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan4012
Feb4613
Mar5417
Apr237
May10
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep21
Oct134
Nov3310
Dec3611

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Cahama collects about 542 mm of rain across 75 wet days — roughly 45 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. March is the wettest month with 125 mm, while June is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 63% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec991171253413205688
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan9912
Feb11713
Mar12517
Apr347
May10
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep31
Oct204
Nov5610
Dec8811

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Cahama, 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 10 and lasts for 6.6 months, ending around October 28. The clearest month is June, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 97% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 29 and lasts for 5.4 months, ending around April 9. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 68% 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 10 · 99%Jan 20 · 30%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3268
Feb3565
Mar3961
Apr7624
May937
Jun973
Jul964
Aug946
Sep946
Oct8416
Nov5842
Dec4258

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 13 hours of light; the shortest, around June 12, only 11 hours — a swing of roughly 2 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan12.95:466:38
Feb12.56:016:34
Mar12.16:096:16
Apr11.66:145:52
May11.36:225:36
Jun11.06:325:34
Jul11.16:355:42
Aug11.56:235:50
Sep11.96:005:54
Oct12.45:375:59
Nov12.85:256:11
Dec13.05:306:28

Sunny days

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

Cahama averages about 17 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 4 and 29 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.3 months, from around Apr 15 to Oct 24. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 28 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is January, down near 5 sunny days — about 83% fewer than the June peak.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJun 1629 daysJan 234 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan5Gloomy
Feb5Gloomy
Mar6Gloomy
Apr17Bright
May25Brilliant
Jun28Brilliant
Jul29Brilliant
Aug27Brilliant
Sep25Brilliant
Oct20Bright
Nov11Mixed
Dec7Gloomy

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 Cahama, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 5.2 months, from around November 13 to April 20. The muggiest month is March, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 71% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around April 21 to November 12, and May is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 99% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMay 20 · 100%Mar 19 · 25%muggycomfortabledryhumidhumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan4122289
Feb29203515
Mar13174427
Apr4918258
May96310
Jun100000
Jul100000
Aug100000
Sep99100
Oct86950
Nov5919202
Dec4820257

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.

Across the year, average wind speed in Cahama is typically calm, near 9 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around May 4 to Nov 3. The windiest month is July, averaging about 10 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Jan 24 to May 3, with March the calmest month at about 8 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJul 5 · 11 km/hMar 17 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb9calm
Mar8calm
Apr9calm
May10calm
Jun10calm
Jul10calm
Aug10calm
Sep10calm
Oct10calm
Nov9calm
Dec9calm

Hazard calendar for Cahama

In seasonPeak

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

Cahama's rainy season runs December–March, 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 Cahama

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late July, Cahama 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 Cahama for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid May to early August, with a peak score in the last week of June.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 23 · 9.1

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
Jan4.4fair
Feb4.6fair
Mar4.8fair
Apr6.1good
May7.3good
Jun8.9ideal
Jul8.8ideal
Aug6.6good
Sep4.6fair
Oct3.6fair
Nov3.9fair
Dec4.2fair

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 Cahama for hot-weather activities is from mid April to early October, with a peak score in the first week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 3 · 9.4

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 Cahama, 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.

For a warm-season trip around October (highs near 34°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around June (highs near 27°C), pack light clothes and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In October, Cahama sees daytime highs around 34°C and nights near 17°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 4 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Cahama 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 Cahama peaks around January 18 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near July 14 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 15Jul 14UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan15Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May10Very high
Jun8Very high
Jul8Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep10Very high
Oct13Extreme
Nov14Extreme
Dec14Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Cahama

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
Feb8.57
Mar86.5
Apr7.55.5
May75
Jun6.54
Jul63.5
Aug6.54
Sep7.55
Oct86.5
Nov8.56.5
Dec97

Air quality in Cahama 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 Cahama is worst in August — around 18 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 3.4× the cleanest month (April, 5 µg/m³).

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodAug 2017 µg/m³Apr 195 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan8Good
Feb7Good
Mar7Good
Apr5Good
May6Good
Jun8Good
Jul9Good
Aug18Moderate
Sep14Moderate
Oct12Good
Nov8Good
Dec7Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Cahama 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. Cahama banks about 4,716 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around October.

01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan434
Feb380
Mar407
Apr385
May364
Jun281
Jul287
Aug362
Sep429
Oct484
Nov454
Dec449

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.

Cahama receives about 6.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 5.2 and 7.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.8 months, from around Aug 22 to Feb 13. The brightest month is October, averaging about 7.3 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is June, down near 5.3 kWh/m² — roughly 27% less than the October peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseOct 127.3 kWhJun 235.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.6Intense
Feb6.2Intense
Mar5.8Bright
Apr5.8Bright
May5.6Bright
Jun5.3Bright
Jul5.4Bright
Aug6.1Intense
Sep6.9Intense
Oct7.3Intense
Nov7.1Intense
Dec6.8Intense

Where is Cahama?

Cahama sits at 16.3°S, 14.3°E, 1,127 m above sea level, in Angola. The nearest listed city is Humbe, 77 km away.

XangongoVireiQuipungoOndjivaLubangoMatalaOpuwo

Topography around Cahama

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Cahama has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 105 m around an average of 1,186 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 161 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 616 m.

The land around Cahama is covered by shrubs (52%) and grassland (24%) within 3 km, shrubs (88%) within 16 km, and shrubs (90%) within 80 km.

3 km
105 m
16 km
161 m
80 km
616 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Humbe 77 km · Xangongo 87 km · Virei 158 km · Quipungo 165 km · Ondjiva 175 km · Lubango 176 km · Matala 189 km · Opuwo 204 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 Cahama (-16.2856°, 14.3096°, elevation 1,127 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. 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).