Climate and average weather in Dombe Grande

In Dombe Grande, the summers are muggy, hot, fairly dry, and mostly clear and the winters are warm and mostly clear.

Best: early May to late November

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Dombe Grande typically varies from 18°C to 30°C, and is rarely below 17°C or above 31°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Dombe Grande for warm-weather activities is from early May to late November.

Hottest
Apr
30°
Coldest
Aug
18°
Wettest
Mar
87 mm
Driest
Jun
0 mm
Rain / yr
229 mm
39 wet days
Daylight
11.2–12.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
51 m
13.0°S
Clearest
May
19% cloud

Dombe Grande 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 late November.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Dombe Grande stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is April, with an average high of 30°C and low of 25°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 18°C and high of 23°C.

Days typically run about 5°C warmer than nights year-round.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2823
Feb2924
Mar2925
Apr3025
May2822
Jun2520
Jul2318
Aug2318
Sep2419
Oct2621
Nov2823
Dec2823

How hot and cold Dombe Grande 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, Dombe Grande feels like about 33°C (around April 13). About 54 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in April.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan30282323
Feb31292424
Mar32292525
Apr33302425
May30282222
Jun25252020
Jul23231818
Aug23231818
Sep24241919
Oct27262121
Nov29282323
Dec29282323

Average hourly temperature in Dombe Grande

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 April afternoons, near 30°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 18°C.

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

Dombe Grande 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
Jan28° / 23°324.912.76.6
Feb29° / 24°345.512.45.9
Mar29° / 25°8711.212.15.1
Apr30° / 25°306.411.75.8
May28° / 22°0011.48.0
Jun25° / 20°0011.39.1
Jul23° / 18°0011.39.0
Aug23° / 18°0011.68.8
Sep24° / 19°10.311.99.0
Oct26° / 21°41.412.38.4
Nov28° / 23°143.212.67.5
Dec28° / 23°255.812.76.9

Chance of rain

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

Dombe Grande gets about 229 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is mostly dry, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 5.2 months, from around Nov 16 to Apr 22, peaking in March at about 40% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around May 12.

March is the wettest month by volume, with 87 mm over about 11 wet days; June is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMar 18 · 40%May 12 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan165
Feb206
Mar3611
Apr216
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep10
Oct41
Nov113
Dec186

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Dombe Grande collects about 229 mm of rain across 39 wet days — roughly 19 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. March is the wettest month with 87 mm, while June is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 67% of the year’s total.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec32348730000141425
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan325
Feb346
Mar8711
Apr306
May00
Jun00
Jul00
Aug00
Sep10
Oct41
Nov143
Dec256

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Dombe Grande, 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 15 and lasts for 7.0 months, ending around November 14. The clearest month is May, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 92% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around November 15 and lasts for 5.0 months, ending around April 14. The cloudiest month is March, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 72% 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 9 · 93%Mar 15 · 24%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3565
Feb3367
Mar2872
Apr6535
May928
Jun919
Jul8218
Aug7822
Sep8119
Oct8218
Nov6337
Dec3961

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 48 min of light; the shortest, around June 13, only 11 h 12 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 36 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan12.75:566:37
Feb12.46:096:35
Mar12.16:156:20
Apr11.76:165:59
May11.46:225:46
Jun11.36:315:45
Jul11.36:345:52
Aug11.66:255:59
Sep11.96:046:00
Oct12.35:446:01
Nov12.65:356:11
Dec12.75:416:27

Sunny days

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

Dombe Grande averages about 15 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 4 and 26 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.7 months, from around Apr 16 to Nov 5. The sunniest month is May, with roughly 25 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is March, down near 4 sunny days — about 83% fewer than the May peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantMay 1526 daysMar 144 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan5Gloomy
Feb4Gloomy
Mar4Gloomy
Apr15Mixed
May26Brilliant
Jun24Brilliant
Jul20Bright
Aug18Bright
Sep19Bright
Oct19Bright
Nov13Mixed
Dec8Gloomy

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 Dombe Grande, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 8.6 months, from around September 16 to June 4. The muggiest month is January, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around June 5 to September 15, and August is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 17% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecAug 3 · 20%Jan 1 · 0%miserablemuggyhumidoppressivecomfortablehumidcomfortablehumid
Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan01163261
Feb0651384
Mar01206811
Apr01236016
May1762291
Jun4514410
Jul12771100
Aug1782100
Sep4871000
Oct0386020
Nov01471160
Dec01562230

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 Dombe Grande is steady company: average speeds sit near 10 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeNov 8 · 12 km/hMay 24 · 9 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan10calm
Feb10calm
Mar10calm
Apr9calm
May9calm
Jun9calm
Jul9calm
Aug9calm
Sep10calm
Oct11calm
Nov11calm
Dec11calm

Best time to visit Dombe Grande

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid November, Dombe Grande 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 Dombe Grande for general outdoor tourist activities is from early May to late November, with a peak score in the third week of June.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 21 · 9.2

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
Jan6.6good
Feb5.9good
Mar5.1fair
Apr5.9good
May8.0ideal
Jun9.1ideal
Jul9.0ideal
Aug8.8ideal
Sep9.0ideal
Oct8.4ideal
Nov7.5ideal
Dec6.9good

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Dombe Grande for hot-weather activities run from mid April to mid July and again from early September to early December, with a peak score in the second week of May.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationMay 10 · 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 Dombe Grande, 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 April (highs near 30°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around August (highs near 23°C), pack light clothes and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Dombe Grande sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: sun protection. About 6 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Dombe Grande

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 26 km away) is warmest in March at about 27°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
Mar27Warm
Apr27Warm
May25Warm
Jun23Refreshing
Jul21Refreshing
Aug20Refreshing
Sep21Refreshing
Oct23Refreshing
Nov25Warm
Dec25Warm

UV index (midday) in Dombe Grande 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 Dombe Grande peaks around January 19 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near August 12 at about 7 (high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highHighVery highExtremeJan 19UV 15Aug 12UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan15Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May9Very high
Jun8Very high
Jul7Very high
Aug7High
Sep9Very high
Oct11Extreme
Nov13Extreme
Dec13Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Dombe Grande

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
Feb86.5
Mar86.5
Apr7.55.5
May74.5
Jun6.53.5
Jul6.53
Aug62.5
Sep74.5
Oct85.5
Nov86.5
Dec8.56.5

Air quality in Dombe Grande 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 Dombe Grande is worst in July — around 18 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.4× the cleanest month (February, 8 µg/m³).

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodJul 1618 µg/m³Feb 138 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan8Good
Feb8Good
Mar9Good
Apr9Good
May13Moderate
Jun14Moderate
Jul18Moderate
Aug14Moderate
Sep11Good
Oct9Good
Nov8Good
Dec8Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Dombe Grande 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. Dombe Grande banks about 5,195 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around April.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan486
Feb457
Mar521
Apr509
May474
Jun371
Jul331
Aug326
Sep354
Oct428
Nov460
Dec477

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.

Dombe Grande receives about 6.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 5.0 and 6.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.1 months, from around Sep 1 to Mar 6. The brightest month is October, averaging about 6.8 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is July, down near 5.0 kWh/m² — roughly 26% less than the October peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseOct 156.8 kWhJul 35.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.7Intense
Feb6.5Intense
Mar5.8Bright
Apr5.9Bright
May5.6Bright
Jun5.1Bright
Jul5.0Bright
Aug5.6Bright
Sep6.4Intense
Oct6.8Intense
Nov6.8Intense
Dec6.5Intense

Where is Dombe Grande?

Dombe Grande sits at 13.0°S, 13.1°E, 51 m above sea level, in Angola. The nearest listed city is Baía Farta, 40 km away.

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Topography around Dombe Grande

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Dombe Grande has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 186 m around an average of 53 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 499 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,910 m.

The land around Dombe Grande is covered by shrubs (36%) and cropland (36%) within 3 km, shrubs (55%) within 16 km, and shrubs (54%) and water (32%) within 80 km.

3 km
186 m
16 km
499 m
80 km
1,910 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwaterwetland
Nearby: Baía Farta 40 km · Navegantes 51 km · Benguela 53 km · Catumbela 75 km · Lobito 80 km · Cubal 124 km · Bocoio 124 km · Camucuio 130 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 Dombe Grande (-12.9517°, 13.1025°, elevation 51 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).