Climate and average weather in Cuíto

In Cuíto, 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 December.

Best: late April to late August

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Cuíto typically varies from 10°C to 29°C, and is rarely below 7°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 Cuíto for warm-weather activities is from late April to late August.

Hottest
Sep
29°
Coldest
Dec
16°
Wettest
Dec
258 mm
Driest
Jul
0 mm
Rain / yr
1337 mm
156 wet days
Daylight
11.3–12.7 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,715 m
12.4°S
Clearest
Jun
12% cloud

Cuíto 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 late August.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Cuíto 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 16°C and high of 24°C.

Days typically run about 11°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)
Jan2416
Feb2516
Mar2415
Apr2415
May2512
Jun2510
Jul2510
Aug2812
Sep2915
Oct2816
Nov2516
Dec2416

Average hourly temperature in Cuíto

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 16°C.

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

Cuíto 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
Jan24° / 16°24022.812.64.7
Feb25° / 16°18920.212.44.7
Mar24° / 15°2032512.14.4
Apr24° / 15°6912.611.76.5
May25° / 12°30.711.48.9
Jun25° / 10°00.111.39.5
Jul25° / 10°0011.39.4
Aug28° / 12°00.111.68.3
Sep29° / 15°234.311.96.4
Oct28° / 16°13519.112.34.9
Nov25° / 16°21725.812.64.1
Dec24° / 16°25825.612.74.2

Chance of rain

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

Cuíto gets about 1337 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 6.3 months, from around Oct 6 to Apr 15, peaking in December at about 88% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 20.

December is the wettest month by volume, with 258 mm over about 26 wet days; July is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetDec 2 · 88%Jun 20 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan7323
Feb7220
Mar8025
Apr4213
May41
Jun00
Jul00
Aug10
Sep154
Oct6119
Nov8626
Dec8326

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Cuíto collects about 1337 mm of rain across 156 wet days — roughly 111 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. December is the wettest month with 258 mm, while July is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 53% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec2401892036930023135217258
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan24023
Feb18920
Mar20325
Apr6913
May31
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep234
Oct13519
Nov21726
Dec25826

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Cuíto, 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 17 and lasts for 5.8 months, ending around October 10. The clearest month is June, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 94% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 11 and lasts for 6.2 months, ending around April 16. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 93% 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 21 · 96%Dec 8 · 6%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan991
Feb1090
Mar1486
Apr4753
May8713
Jun946
Jul946
Aug8911
Sep7921
Oct3961
Nov1288
Dec793

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 28, 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)
Jan12.65:426:21
Feb12.45:556:19
Mar12.15:596:04
Apr11.76:015:44
May11.46:065:31
Jun11.36:145:31
Jul11.36:185:38
Aug11.66:095:44
Sep11.95:495:45
Oct12.35:295:46
Nov12.65:205:55
Dec12.75:276:10

Sunny days

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

Cuíto 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 27 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.2 months, from around Apr 24 to Sep 29. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 26 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is December, down near 0 sunny days — about 98% fewer than the June peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJun 2227 daysDec 80 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan0Gloomy
Feb1Gloomy
Mar1Gloomy
Apr8Gloomy
May22Bright
Jun26Brilliant
Jul27Brilliant
Aug23Bright
Sep15Bright
Oct5Gloomy
Nov1Gloomy
Dec0Gloomy

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 5.8 months, from around October 22 to April 17. The muggiest month is November, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 77% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around April 18 to October 21, and May is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 98% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMay 28 · 100%Nov 30 · 17%humiddrycomfortablehumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan92763
Feb92763
Mar32176
Apr273241
May8992
Jun9910
Jul10000
Aug10000
Sep87121
Oct304327
Nov32177
Dec42076

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 Cuíto is steady company: average speeds sit near 8 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeSep 2 · 9 km/hNov 27 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan8calm
Feb7calm
Mar7calm
Apr7calm
May8calm
Jun8calm
Jul8calm
Aug9calm
Sep9calm
Oct8calm
Nov6calm
Dec7calm

Hazard calendar for Cuíto

In seasonPeak

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

Cuíto'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 Cuíto

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 23 · 9.7

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
Jan4.7fair
Feb4.7fair
Mar4.5fair
Apr6.5good
May8.9ideal
Jun9.5ideal
Jul9.4ideal
Aug8.2ideal
Sep6.4good
Oct4.9fair
Nov4.1fair
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 Cuíto for hot-weather activities is from early May to late September, with a peak score in the last week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 28 · 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 Cuíto, 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.

Cuíto 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, Cuíto sees daytime highs around 29°C and nights near 15°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 4 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Cuíto 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 Cuíto peaks around January 18 at about 17 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 22 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 17Jun 22UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan17Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar16Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun9Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug10Extreme
Sep11Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov14Extreme
Dec14Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Cuíto

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 7.5 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)
Jan97.5
Feb8.56.5
Mar8.57
Apr86
May75
Jun74.5
Jul74.5
Aug75
Sep7.55.5
Oct86
Nov8.56.5
Dec8.57

Air quality in Cuíto 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 Cuíto is worst in August — around 72 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 9.6× the cleanest month (December, 8 µg/m³).

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

020406080JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateUnhealthyModerateGoodAug 1372 µg/m³Dec 208 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan8Good
Feb9Good
Mar9Good
Apr8Good
May13Moderate
Jun42Poor
Jul71Unhealthy
Aug72Unhealthy
Sep70Unhealthy
Oct19Moderate
Nov9Good
Dec8Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Cuíto 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. Cuíto banks about 3,541 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around September.

01,0002,0003,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan309
Feb283
Mar303
Apr281
May270
Jun216
Jul226
Aug311
Sep364
Oct366
Nov307
Dec305

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.

Cuíto receives about 5.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 5.2 and 6.5 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseSep 106.5 kWhMar 275.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.5Bright
Feb5.6Bright
Mar5.3Bright
Apr5.5Bright
May5.8Bright
Jun5.6Bright
Jul5.8Bright
Aug6.2Intense
Sep6.5Intense
Oct6.3Intense
Nov5.8Bright
Dec5.3Bright

Where is Cuíto?

Cuíto sits at 12.4°S, 16.9°E, 1,715 m above sea level, in Angola. The nearest listed city is Catabola, 46 km away.

MungoNharêaAnduloCuemba

Topography around Cuíto

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Cuíto has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 119 m around an average of 1,678 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 244 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 636 m.

The land around Cuíto is covered by artificial surfaces (47%) within 3 km, grassland (47%), cropland (24%) and shrubs (21%) within 16 km, and grassland (50%) and shrubs (20%) within 80 km.

3 km
119 m
16 km
244 m
80 km
636 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Catabola 46 km · Chinguar 67 km · Camacupa 72 km · Catchiungo 79 km · Mungo 97 km · Nharêa 101 km · Andulo 103 km · Cuemba 128 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 Cuíto (-12.3833°, 16.9333°, elevation 1,715 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).