Climate and average weather in Calumbo

In Calumbo, the weather is muggy, hot, wet, and mostly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around April.

Best: early June to mid September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Calumbo typically varies from 18°C to 33°C, and is rarely below 16°C or above 36°C. February is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Feb
33°
Coldest
Jul
18°
Wettest
Apr
129 mm
Driest
Jun
0 mm
Rain / yr
562 mm
85 wet days
Daylight
11.5–12.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
15 m
9.1°S
Clearest
Jun
28% cloud

Calumbo 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 June to mid September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Calumbo stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 33°C and low of 23°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 18°C and high of 28°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in July.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3223
Feb3323
Mar3224
Apr3124
May3122
Jun3019
Jul2818
Aug2918
Sep3020
Oct3022
Nov3123
Dec3123

How hot and cold Calumbo 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, Calumbo feels like about 37°C (around March 11). About 237 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in March.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan35322323
Feb36332323
Mar37322424
Apr36312424
May34312222
Jun31301919
Jul29281818
Aug29291818
Sep31302020
Oct32302222
Nov34312323
Dec35312323

Average hourly temperature in Calumbo

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 February afternoons, near 33°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 18°C.

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

Calumbo 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
Jan32° / 23°7110.312.53.7
Feb33° / 23°7210.712.33.4
Mar32° / 24°11615.912.13.2
Apr31° / 24°12916.711.83.5
May31° / 22°12211.65.2
Jun30° / 19°0011.56.7
Jul28° / 18°0011.57.5
Aug29° / 18°20.211.77.0
Sep30° / 20°61.411.95.9
Oct30° / 22°184.212.25.1
Nov31° / 23°6712.112.44.1
Dec31° / 23°6911.612.53.9

Chance of rain

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

Calumbo gets about 562 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 6.2 months, from around Oct 27 to May 2, peaking in April at about 61% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 2.

April is the wettest month by volume, with 129 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 wetApr 10 · 61%Jun 2 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3310
Feb3811
Mar5216
Apr5317
May82
Jun00
Jul00
Aug10
Sep51
Oct154
Nov3912
Dec3712

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Calumbo collects about 562 mm of rain across 85 wet days — roughly 47 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. April is the wettest month with 129 mm, while June is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 56% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec7172116129120026186769
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan7110
Feb7211
Mar11616
Apr12917
May122
Jun00
Jul00
Aug20
Sep61
Oct184
Nov6712
Dec6912

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Calumbo, 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 May 4 and lasts for 4.8 months, ending around September 25. The clearest month is June, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 87% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 26 and lasts for 7.2 months, ending around May 3. The cloudiest month is March, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 85% 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 22 · 90%Mar 22 · 12%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2080
Feb2080
Mar1585
Apr1882
May6238
Jun8713
Jul8119
Aug6040
Sep4456
Oct2080
Nov1882
Dec1783

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 30 min of light; the shortest, around May 23, only 11 h 30 min — a swing of roughly 1 hour.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan12.56:016:30
Feb12.36:126:30
Mar12.16:146:18
Apr11.86:136:00
May11.66:155:50
Jun11.56:225:51
Jul11.56:275:57
Aug11.76:206:01
Sep11.96:025:59
Oct12.25:455:58
Nov12.45:396:04
Dec12.55:476:18

Sunny days

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

Calumbo averages about 7 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 24 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.9 months, from around May 4 to Aug 31. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 22 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is October, down near 1 sunny days — about 94% fewer than the June peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJun 2124 daysOct 310 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan2Gloomy
Feb2Gloomy
Mar1Gloomy
Apr2Gloomy
May14Mixed
Jun22Bright
Jul20Bright
Aug11Mixed
Sep5Gloomy
Oct1Gloomy
Nov1Gloomy
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.

Calumbo is humid all year round — on a typical day the air feels at least humid, and there is no real dry season to wait for.

The stickiest month is January, when it feels muggy, oppressive or miserable about 97% of the time. Even in July, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 9% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 28 · 12%Jan 1 · 0%miserablehumidmuggyoppressivecomfortablehumidcomfortablehumid
Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan0339554
Feb0231589
Mar00107119
Apr0056332
May0441515
Jun1494730
Jul982900
Aug784800
Sep0524800
Oct0875170
Nov0237611
Dec0136611

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 Calumbo is steady company: average speeds sit near 7 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeOct 17 · 8 km/hApr 10 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr6calm
May6calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug7calm
Sep7calm
Oct7calm
Nov7calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Calumbo

In seasonPeak

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

Calumbo's rainy season runs November–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 Calumbo

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early September, Calumbo 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 Calumbo for general outdoor tourist activities is from early June to mid September, with a peak score in the third week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 20 · 7.6

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
Jan3.7fair
Feb3.4poor
Mar3.2poor
Apr3.6fair
May5.2fair
Jun6.7good
Jul7.5good
Aug7.0good
Sep5.9good
Oct5.1fair
Nov4.1fair
Dec4.0fair

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 Calumbo for hot-weather activities is from mid May to mid October, with a peak score in the last week of June.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 27 · 9.2

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 Calumbo, 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.

Calumbo packs about the same all year — highs hold near 33°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Calumbo sees daytime highs around 33°C and nights near 23°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: rain gear and sun protection. About 11 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Calumbo

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 41 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
May25Warm
Jun23Refreshing
Jul21Refreshing
Aug20Refreshing
Sep21Refreshing
Oct24Refreshing
Nov26Warm
Dec26Warm

UV index (midday) in Calumbo 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 Calumbo peaks around March 12 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near August 11 at about 6 (high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highHighVery highExtremeMar 12UV 15Aug 11UV 6
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May9Very high
Jun7Very high
Jul6High
Aug6High
Sep10Very high
Oct11Extreme
Nov12Extreme
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Calumbo

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 March the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6.5 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)
Jan8.56.5
Feb8.56.5
Mar8.56.5
Apr86
May74.5
Jun63
Jul61.5
Aug5.50
Sep7.55
Oct7.55.5
Nov86
Dec86

Air quality in Calumbo 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 Calumbo is worst in July — around 47 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 2.1× the cleanest month (January, 23 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateJul 1847 µg/m³Jan 1923 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan23Moderate
Feb24Moderate
Mar29Moderate
Apr34Moderate
May35Moderate
Jun41Poor
Jul47Poor
Aug43Poor
Sep32Moderate
Oct27Moderate
Nov25Moderate
Dec26Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Calumbo 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. Calumbo banks about 5,886 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around February.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan543
Feb503
Mar553
Apr523
May522
Jun439
Jul407
Aug417
Sep448
Oct498
Nov505
Dec530

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.

Calumbo receives about 4.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.2 and 5.6 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 15.6 kWhOct 224.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.5Bright
Feb5.6Bright
Mar5.2Bright
Apr4.5Bright
May4.8Bright
Jun4.8Bright
Jul4.7Bright
Aug4.6Bright
Sep4.6Bright
Oct4.2Bright
Nov4.7Bright
Dec5.1Bright

Where is Calumbo?

Calumbo sits at 9.1°S, 13.4°E, 15 m above sea level, in Angola. The nearest listed city is Zango, 15 km away.

Topography around Calumbo

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Calumbo has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 106 m around an average of 20 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 182 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 257 m.

The land around Calumbo is covered by wetland (42%) and grassland (41%) within 3 km, grassland (54%) and wetland (20%) within 16 km, and water (32%), grassland (31%) and trees (28%) within 80 km.

3 km
106 m
16 km
182 m
80 km
257 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Zango 15 km · Vila Flor 22 km · Viana 27 km · Camama 29 km · Mulenvos 33 km · Nova Vida 34 km · Golfe 36 km · Benfica 36 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 Calumbo (-9.1469°, 13.4194°, elevation 15 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).