Climate and average weather in Cela

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

Best: late April to mid August

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Cela typically varies from 12°C to 30°C, and is rarely below 9°C or above 32°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while December is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Cela for warm-weather activities is from late April to mid August.

Hottest
Aug
30°
Coldest
Dec
16°
Wettest
Nov
191 mm
Driest
Jul
0 mm
Rain / yr
1031 mm
159 wet days
Daylight
11.3–12.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,308 m
11.4°S
Clearest
Jun
12% cloud

Cela 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 late April to mid August.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Cela stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is August, with an average high of 30°C and low of 13°C; the coolest is December, with an average low of 16°C and high of 25°C.

Days typically run about 12°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 16°C) in July.

10°15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2516
Feb2616
Mar2616
Apr2616
May2714
Jun2712
Jul2812
Aug3013
Sep2915
Oct2717
Nov2517
Dec2516

Average hourly temperature in Cela

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 August afternoons, near 30°C, and coldest before dawn in December, near 16°C.

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

Cela 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° / 16°13318.912.65.2
Feb26° / 16°11316.212.45.2
Mar26° / 16°16622.612.14.6
Apr26° / 16°841511.85.7
May27° / 14°41.311.58.3
Jun27° / 12°0011.38.9
Jul28° / 12°0011.48.5
Aug30° / 13°20.711.66.9
Sep29° / 15°369.111.95.6
Oct27° / 17°14526.112.34.1
Nov25° / 17°19126.612.53.9
Dec25° / 16°15822.212.74.7

Chance of rain

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

Cela gets about 1031 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 22 to Apr 19, peaking in October at about 93% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 12.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 191 mm over about 27 wet days; July is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetOct 30 · 93%Jun 12 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan6019
Feb5816
Mar7223
Apr4915
May61
Jun00
Jul00
Aug31
Sep319
Oct8326
Nov8927
Dec7222

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Cela collects about 1031 mm of rain across 159 wet days — roughly 86 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 191 mm, while July is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 50% of the year’s total.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1331131668440236145191158
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan13319
Feb11316
Mar16623
Apr8415
May41
Jun00
Jul00
Aug21
Sep369
Oct14526
Nov19127
Dec15822

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Cela, 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 5.6 months, ending around October 8. The clearest month is June, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 95% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 9 and lasts for 6.4 months, ending around April 22. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 90% 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 19 · 97%Dec 6 · 7%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1486
Feb1684
Mar1585
Apr3961
May8515
Jun955
Jul946
Aug919
Sep7921
Oct3565
Nov1090
Dec1090

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 June 10, 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)
Jan12.65:516:27
Feb12.46:036:25
Mar12.16:076:12
Apr11.86:075:52
May11.56:115:40
Jun11.36:205:40
Jul11.46:235:47
Aug11.66:155:52
Sep11.95:565:52
Oct12.35:375:52
Nov12.55:296:01
Dec12.75:366:16

Sunny days

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

Cela averages about 11 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 28 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.0 months, from around Apr 28 to Sep 26. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 27 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is November, down near 1 sunny days — about 97% fewer than the June peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJun 2228 daysNov 30 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan1Gloomy
Feb1Gloomy
Mar1Gloomy
Apr6Gloomy
May21Bright
Jun26Brilliant
Jul26Brilliant
Aug23Bright
Sep15Bright
Oct4Gloomy
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.

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 6.7 months, from around October 3 to April 25. The muggiest month is November, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 93% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around April 26 to October 2, and June 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJun 9 · 100%Nov 1 · 5%humiddrycomfortablehumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan530623
Feb826596
Mar214777
Apr1022662
May702280
Jun98200
Jul100000
Aug93600
Sep4938140
Oct321751
Nov07912
Dec122752

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 Cela is steady company: average speeds sit near 6 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeJul 8 · 7 km/hNov 28 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb5calm
Mar5calm
Apr6calm
May7calm
Jun7calm
Jul7calm
Aug7calm
Sep6calm
Oct5calm
Nov4calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Cela

In seasonPeak

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

Cela's monsoon runs October–March, when most of the year's rain falls.

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

Best time to visit Cela

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 22 · 9.0

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
Jan5.2fair
Feb5.2fair
Mar4.6fair
Apr5.8good
May8.2ideal
Jun8.9ideal
Jul8.5ideal
Aug6.9good
Sep5.6good
Oct4.1fair
Nov3.9fair
Dec4.7fair

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 Cela for hot-weather activities is from early May to mid September, with a peak score in the first week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 2 · 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 Cela, 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.

Cela packs about the same all year — highs hold near 30°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 August, Cela sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 13°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Cela 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 Cela peaks around January 18 at about 16 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near August 14 at about 9 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highExtremeJan 18UV 16Aug 14UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan16Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar16Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May10Extreme
Jun9Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug8Very high
Sep11Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov13Extreme
Dec14Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Cela

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 8.5 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)
Jan8.57
Feb8.57
Mar8.56.5
Apr86.5
May75
Jun74.5
Jul74.5
Aug74.5
Sep7.55
Oct86
Nov8.56.5
Dec8.56.5

Air quality in Cela 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 Cela is worst in July — around 138 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 17.7× the cleanest month (December, 8 µg/m³).

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

0306090120150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateUnhealthyModerateGoodJul 21135 µg/m³Dec 168 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan9Good
Feb9Good
Mar9Good
Apr9Good
May25Moderate
Jun74Unhealthy
Jul138Unhealthy
Aug124Unhealthy
Sep59Unhealthy
Oct21Moderate
Nov8Good
Dec8Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Cela 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. Cela banks about 3,949 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around September.

01,0002,0003,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan320
Feb303
Mar340
Apr327
May331
Jun286
Jul300
Aug353
Sep370
Oct370
Nov327
Dec321

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.

Cela receives about 5.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 5.2 and 6.1 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseSep 76.1 kWhDec 35.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.7Bright
Feb5.8Bright
Mar5.5Bright
Apr5.5Bright
May5.7Bright
Jun5.7Bright
Jul5.8Bright
Aug6.0Intense
Sep6.1Intense
Oct5.8Bright
Nov5.4Bright
Dec5.4Bright

Where is Cela?

Cela sits at 11.4°S, 15.1°E, 1,308 m above sea level, in Angola. The nearest listed city is Quissecula, 5.0 km away.

Ucu SelesChindumboCondaLonduimbaliAlto Hama

Topography around Cela

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Cela has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 86 m around an average of 1,310 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 800 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,709 m.

The land around Cela is covered by grassland (43%) and cropland (42%) within 3 km, grassland (32%), cropland (26%) and shrubs (23%) within 16 km, and grassland (33%) and trees (28%) within 80 km.

3 km
86 m
16 km
800 m
80 km
1,709 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswetland
Nearby: Quissecula 5.0 km · Quibala 78 km · Capunda 78 km · Ucu Seles 89 km · Chindumbo 93 km · Conda 93 km · Londuimbali 93 km · Alto Hama 101 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 Cela (-11.4217°, 15.1235°, elevation 1,308 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).