Climate and average weather in Gama

In Gama, 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 late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Gama typically varies from 18°C to 32°C, and is rarely below 17°C or above 34°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 Gama for warm-weather activities is from early June to late September.

Hottest
Feb
32°
Coldest
Jul
18°
Wettest
Apr
135 mm
Driest
Jul
0 mm
Rain / yr
493 mm
77 wet days
Daylight
11.5–12.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
8 m
8.6°S
Clearest
Jun
37% cloud

Gama 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 late September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Gama stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 32°C and low of 24°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 18°C and high of 27°C.

Days typically run about 7°C warmer than nights year-round.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3124
Feb3224
Mar3224
Apr3124
May3023
Jun2820
Jul2718
Aug2719
Sep2820
Oct2922
Nov3023
Dec3123

How hot and cold Gama 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, Gama feels like about 37°C (around April 13). About 212 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in April.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan35312424
Feb36322424
Mar37322424
Apr36312424
May34302323
Jun29282020
Jul27271818
Aug27271919
Sep29282020
Oct31292222
Nov33302323
Dec34312323

Average hourly temperature in Gama

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 32°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 18°C.

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

Gama 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
Jan31° / 24°49912.44.3
Feb32° / 24°649.112.33.9
Mar32° / 24°9713.512.13.6
Apr31° / 24°13517.611.83.6
May30° / 23°132.511.65.8
Jun28° / 20°0011.57.7
Jul27° / 18°0011.68.3
Aug27° / 19°20.411.77.9
Sep28° / 20°61.611.97.2
Oct29° / 22°153.412.26.0
Nov30° / 23°6010.512.44.6
Dec31° / 23°549.812.54.5

Chance of rain

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

Gama gets about 493 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 29 to May 6, peaking in April at about 63% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 4.

April is the wettest month by volume, with 135 mm over about 18 wet days; July is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 13 · 63%Jun 4 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan299
Feb329
Mar4514
Apr5518
May113
Jun00
Jul00
Aug10
Sep62
Oct123
Nov3411
Dec3210

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Gama collects about 493 mm of rain across 77 wet days — roughly 41 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. April is the wettest month with 135 mm, while July is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 60% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150175JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec496497135130026156054
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan499
Feb649
Mar9714
Apr13518
May133
Jun00
Jul00
Aug20
Sep62
Oct153
Nov6011
Dec5410

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Gama, 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 7 and lasts for 4.6 months, ending around September 24. The clearest month is June, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 78% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 25 and lasts for 7.4 months, ending around May 6. The cloudiest month is April, 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 23 · 83%Apr 18 · 13%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2377
Feb2278
Mar1783
Apr1585
May5248
Jun7822
Jul7426
Aug5248
Sep3961
Oct2575
Nov2278
Dec1981

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 29, 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)
Jan12.46:026:29
Feb12.36:126:29
Mar12.16:146:18
Apr11.86:126:01
May11.66:145:51
Jun11.56:215:51
Jul11.66:255:58
Aug11.76:196:02
Sep11.96:025:59
Oct12.25:455:57
Nov12.45:396:03
Dec12.55:476:17

Sunny days

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

Gama averages about 5 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 20 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.5 months, from around May 7 to Aug 22. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 18 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is October, down near 1 sunny days — about 93% fewer than the June peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJun 2020 daysOct 281 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan2Gloomy
Feb2Gloomy
Mar2Gloomy
Apr1Gloomy
May9Mixed
Jun18Bright
Jul16Bright
Aug7Gloomy
Sep3Gloomy
Oct1Gloomy
Nov2Gloomy
Dec2Gloomy

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.

Gama 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 99% of the time. Even in July, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 4% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmiserableoppressivemuggyhumid
Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan0124669
Feb00196615
Mar0056629
Apr0034651
May01255915
Jun1316170
Jul4781900
Aug3752200
Sep0316910
Oct0268300
Nov0025722
Dec0022744

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 Gama 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 21 · 8 km/hApr 26 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar7calm
Apr6calm
May6calm
Jun7calm
Jul7calm
Aug7calm
Sep7calm
Oct8calm
Nov7calm
Dec7calm

Best time to visit Gama

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 11 · 8.4

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
Jan4.3fair
Feb3.9fair
Mar3.6fair
Apr3.7fair
May5.8good
Jun7.7ideal
Jul8.3ideal
Aug7.9ideal
Sep7.2good
Oct6.0good
Nov4.6fair
Dec4.5fair

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 Gama for hot-weather activities is from early May to late October, with a peak score in the second week of June.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 11 · 8.9

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 Gama, 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.

Gama packs about the same all year — highs hold near 32°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, Gama sees daytime highs around 32°C and nights near 24°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: rain gear and sun protection. About 9 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Gama

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 13 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
Feb28Warm
Mar28Warm
Apr27Warm
May25Warm
Jun22Refreshing
Jul21Refreshing
Aug20Refreshing
Sep22Refreshing
Oct24Warm
Nov26Warm
Dec26Warm

UV index (midday) in Gama 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 Gama peaks around March 15 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 15UV 15Aug 11UV 6
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May9Very high
Jun8Very high
Jul6High
Aug6High
Sep10Very high
Oct12Extreme
Nov12Extreme
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Gama

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
Feb86.5
Mar8.56.5
Apr7.56
May74.5
Jun6.53.5
Jul62
Aug61
Sep7.55
Oct86
Nov86
Dec86

Air quality in Gama 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 Gama is worst in July — around 43 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 2.3× the cleanest month (January, 19 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateJul 1842 µg/m³Jan 1719 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan19Moderate
Feb21Moderate
Mar23Moderate
Apr26Moderate
May30Moderate
Jun38Poor
Jul43Poor
Aug40Poor
Sep31Moderate
Oct24Moderate
Nov20Moderate
Dec21Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Gama 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. Gama banks about 5,757 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around March.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan537
Feb500
Mar559
Apr526
May508
Jun420
Jul386
Aug392
Sep420
Oct481
Nov502
Dec525

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.

Gama receives about 4.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.1 and 5.5 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 25.5 kWhOct 184.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.3Bright
Feb5.5Bright
Mar5.2Bright
Apr4.5Bright
May4.5Bright
Jun4.7Bright
Jul4.6Bright
Aug4.4Bright
Sep4.3Bright
Oct4.1Bright
Nov4.7Bright
Dec5.0Bright

Where is Gama?

Gama sits at 8.6°S, 13.5°E, 8 m above sea level, in Angola. The nearest listed city is Panguíla, 14 km away.

Topography around Gama

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Gama has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 105 m around an average of 36 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 197 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 807 m.

The land around Gama is covered by grassland (62%) and trees (22%) within 3 km, grassland (63%) within 16 km, and trees (38%), grassland (29%) and water (26%) within 80 km.

3 km
105 m
16 km
197 m
80 km
807 m
treesgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Panguíla 14 km · Barra do Dande 16 km · Caxito 21 km · Mabubas 24 km · Cacuaco 26 km · Kikolo 28 km · Sambizanga 33 km · Hoji ya Henda 33 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 Gama (-8.5675°, 13.4764°, elevation 8 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).