Climate and average weather in Cubal do Lumbo

In Cubal do Lumbo, 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 mid September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Cubal do Lumbo typically varies from 12°C to 28°C, and is rarely below 11°C or above 30°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 Cubal do Lumbo for warm-weather activities is from early May to mid September.

Hottest
Sep
28°
Coldest
Dec
17°
Wettest
Mar
216 mm
Driest
Jul
0 mm
Rain / yr
1135 mm
161 wet days
Daylight
11.3–12.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,026 m
12.3°S
Clearest
Jun
13% cloud

Cubal do Lumbo 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 mid September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Cubal do Lumbo stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is September, with an average high of 28°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 15°C) in July.

10°15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2517
Feb2617
Mar2617
Apr2717
May2816
Jun2713
Jul2812
Aug2813
Sep2815
Oct2717
Nov2518
Dec2517

Average hourly temperature in Cubal do Lumbo

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 28°C, and coldest before dawn in December, near 17°C.

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

Cubal do Lumbo 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°13217.812.65.3
Feb26° / 17°14417.412.45.0
Mar26° / 17°21624.812.14.2
Apr27° / 17°12321.111.74.8
May28° / 16°122.911.47.9
Jun27° / 13°0011.38.8
Jul28° / 12°0011.38.8
Aug28° / 13°10.311.68.3
Sep28° / 15°226.411.96.6
Oct27° / 17°11422.512.34.6
Nov25° / 18°19625.912.64.0
Dec25° / 17°17521.812.74.7

Chance of rain

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

Cubal do Lumbo gets about 1135 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 7.0 months, from around Sep 28 to Apr 27, peaking in November at about 89% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 12.

March is the wettest month by volume, with 216 mm over about 25 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 3 · 89%Jun 12 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan5718
Feb6217
Mar8025
Apr6821
May123
Jun00
Jul00
Aug10
Sep226
Oct7223
Nov8626
Dec7122

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Cubal do Lumbo collects about 1135 mm of rain across 161 wet days — roughly 95 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. March is the wettest month with 216 mm, while July is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 52% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec132144216123120122114196175
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan13218
Feb14417
Mar21625
Apr12321
May123
Jun00
Jul00
Aug10
Sep226
Oct11423
Nov19626
Dec17522

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Cubal do Lumbo, 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 24 and lasts for 5.6 months, ending around October 11. 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 12 and lasts for 6.4 months, ending around April 23. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 89% 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 · 97%Dec 7 · 9%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1486
Feb1585
Mar1387
Apr3862
May8515
Jun964
Jul955
Aug928
Sep8317
Oct4060
Nov1288
Dec1189

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 29, 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)
Jan12.65:536:32
Feb12.46:066:30
Mar12.16:116:16
Apr11.76:125:56
May11.46:175:43
Jun11.36:255:42
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.

Cubal do Lumbo averages about 11 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 5.1 months, from around Apr 29 to Oct 1. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 27 sunny days (brilliant).

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

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJun 2128 daysDec 91 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan2Gloomy
Feb2Gloomy
Mar1Gloomy
Apr5Gloomy
May21Bright
Jun27Brilliant
Jul28Brilliant
Aug25Brilliant
Sep18Bright
Oct5Gloomy
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 Cubal do Lumbo, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 7.3 months, from around October 1 to May 10. 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 11 to September 30, 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 12 · 100%Mar 27 · 1%muggycomfortablehumiddryhumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan2125927
Feb2124838
Mar043660
Apr044253
May1439399
Jun673040
Jul861400
Aug584110
Sep1463230
Oct0156321
Nov034552
Dec075637

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

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmJun 16 · 5 km/hNov 23 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb5calm
Mar5calm
Apr5calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct5calm
Nov4calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Cubal do Lumbo

In seasonPeak

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

Cubal do Lumbo'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 Cubal do Lumbo

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late August, Cubal do Lumbo 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 Cubal do Lumbo for general outdoor tourist activities is from early May to mid September, with a peak score in the third week of June.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 19 · 8.9

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
Feb5.0fair
Mar4.2fair
Apr4.9fair
May7.8ideal
Jun8.8ideal
Jul8.8ideal
Aug8.3ideal
Sep6.6good
Oct4.6fair
Nov4.1fair
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 Cubal do Lumbo 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 3 · 9.1

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 Cubal do Lumbo, 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.

Cubal do Lumbo packs about the same all year — highs hold near 28°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, Cubal do Lumbo sees daytime highs around 28°C and nights near 15°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 6 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Cubal do Lumbo

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 58 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 Cubal do Lumbo 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 Cubal do Lumbo 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 Cubal do Lumbo

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
Feb8.56.5
Mar8.56.5
Apr7.56
May75
Jun6.54.5
Jul6.54
Aug6.53.5
Sep7.55
Oct86
Nov8.56.5
Dec8.56.5

Air quality in Cubal do Lumbo 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 Cubal do Lumbo is worst in August — around 81 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 9.5× the cleanest month (December, 9 µg/m³).

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

0306090JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateUnhealthyModerateGoodAug 980 µg/m³Dec 159 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan9Good
Feb9Good
Mar10Good
Apr11Good
May22Moderate
Jun46Poor
Jul80Unhealthy
Aug81Unhealthy
Sep49Poor
Oct24Moderate
Nov9Good
Dec9Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Cubal do Lumbo 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. Cubal do Lumbo banks about 4,067 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)
Jan338
Feb318
Mar361
Apr361
May361
Jun306
Jul304
Aug320
Sep342
Oct375
Nov344
Dec338

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.

Cubal do Lumbo receives about 5.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.9 and 6.2 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseSep 96.2 kWhMar 234.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.5Bright
Feb5.5Bright
Mar5.0Bright
Apr5.2Bright
May5.5Bright
Jun5.5Bright
Jul5.6Bright
Aug6.0Bright
Sep6.2Intense
Oct5.6Bright
Nov5.0Bright
Dec5.1Bright

Where is Cubal do Lumbo?

Cubal do Lumbo sits at 12.3°S, 14.1°E, 1,026 m above sea level, in Angola. The nearest listed city is Bocoio, 18 km away.

Navegantes

Topography around Cubal do Lumbo

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Cubal do Lumbo has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 206 m around an average of 1,035 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,611 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,559 m.

The land around Cubal do Lumbo is covered by shrubs (54%) and cropland (32%) within 3 km, shrubs (48%) and cropland (27%) within 16 km, and shrubs (44%) within 80 km.

3 km
206 m
16 km
1,611 m
80 km
2,559 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandwater
Nearby: Bocoio 18 km · Chindumbo 55 km · Catumbela 64 km · Lobito 64 km · Balombo 70 km · Cubal 82 km · Benguela 84 km · Navegantes 86 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 Cubal do Lumbo (-12.3126°, 14.1265°, elevation 1,026 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).