Climate and average weather in Ganda

In Ganda, 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: late April to early August

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Ganda typically varies from 11°C to 31°C, and is rarely below 9°C or above 33°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 Ganda for warm-weather activities is from late April to early August.

Hottest
Sep
31°
Coldest
Dec
16°
Wettest
Mar
280 mm
Driest
Jun
0 mm
Rain / yr
1475 mm
153 wet days
Daylight
11.2–12.8 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,267 m
13.0°S
Clearest
Jun
10% cloud

Ganda 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 early August.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Ganda stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is September, with an average high of 31°C and low of 14°C; the coolest is December, with an average low of 16°C and high of 25°C.

Days typically run about 13°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 18°C) in August.

10°15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2516
Feb2616
Mar2616
Apr2716
May2713
Jun2711
Jul2811
Aug3012
Sep3114
Oct2816
Nov2616
Dec2516

Average hourly temperature in Ganda

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 31°C, and coldest before dawn in December, near 16°C.

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

Ganda 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°18618.812.75.2
Feb26° / 16°19117.512.45.0
Mar26° / 16°28024.212.14.4
Apr27° / 16°11915.611.75.7
May27° / 13°41.211.48.3
Jun27° / 11°0011.29.0
Jul28° / 11°0011.38.5
Aug30° / 12°10.211.66.7
Sep31° / 14°265.511.95.5
Oct28° / 16°15622.212.34.3
Nov26° / 16°27825.212.64.1
Dec25° / 16°23422.512.84.7

Chance of rain

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

Ganda gets about 1475 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 6.7 months, from around Sep 30 to Apr 21, peaking in November at about 88% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 10.

March is the wettest month by volume, with 280 mm over about 24 wet days; June is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetNov 2 · 88%Jun 10 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan6019
Feb6318
Mar7724
Apr5116
May51
Jun00
Jul00
Aug10
Sep196
Oct7022
Nov8525
Dec7323

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ganda collects about 1475 mm of rain across 153 wet days — roughly 123 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. March is the wettest month with 280 mm, while June is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 54% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1861912801194126156278234
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan18619
Feb19118
Mar28024
Apr11916
May41
Jun00
Jul00
Aug10
Sep266
Oct15622
Nov27825
Dec23423

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Ganda, 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 20 and lasts for 5.8 months, ending around October 14. 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 15 and lasts for 6.1 months, ending around April 19. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 88% 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 17 · 97%Dec 8 · 10%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1585
Feb1684
Mar1585
Apr4753
May8812
Jun964
Jul955
Aug919
Sep8614
Oct5050
Nov1882
Dec1288

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 11, 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)
Jan12.75:506:31
Feb12.46:036:29
Mar12.16:086:14
Apr11.76:105:53
May11.46:165:40
Jun11.26:255:39
Jul11.36:285:46
Aug11.66:195:52
Sep11.95:585:54
Oct12.35:385:55
Nov12.65:286:05
Dec12.85:356:20

Sunny days

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

Ganda averages about 12 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 5.4 months, from around Apr 25 to Oct 6. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 27 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is March, down near 1 sunny days — about 95% fewer than the June peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJun 2328 daysMar 161 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan2Gloomy
Feb2Gloomy
Mar1Gloomy
Apr8Mixed
May23Bright
Jun26Brilliant
Jul27Brilliant
Aug24Brilliant
Sep18Bright
Oct7Gloomy
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.

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 6.6 months, from around October 10 to April 27. The muggiest month is March, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 86% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around April 28 to October 9, 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 4 · 100%Mar 23 · 8%muggycomfortablehumiddryhumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan625608
Feb9215713
Mar2127115
Apr823635
May702190
Jun99100
Jul100000
Aug98200
Sep672670
Oct1130581
Nov210827
Dec218737

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

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmJul 6 · 6 km/hNov 27 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb5calm
Mar4calm
Apr5calm
May6calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep5calm
Oct5calm
Nov4calm
Dec4calm

Hazard calendar for Ganda

In seasonPeak

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

Ganda'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 Ganda

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 17 · 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
Feb5.0fair
Mar4.4fair
Apr5.7good
May8.3ideal
Jun8.9ideal
Jul8.5ideal
Aug6.7good
Sep5.5fair
Oct4.3fair
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 Ganda 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 1 · 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 Ganda, 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.

Ganda packs about the same all year — highs hold near 31°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, Ganda sees daytime highs around 31°C and nights near 14°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 6 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Ganda 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 Ganda peaks around January 18 at about 16 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near July 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 16Jul 22UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan16Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May10Extreme
Jun9Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep11Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov14Extreme
Dec13Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Ganda

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 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
Feb8.57
Mar8.56.5
Apr86
May75
Jun74.5
Jul6.54
Aug74.5
Sep7.55.5
Oct86.5
Nov8.56.5
Dec8.56.5

Air quality in Ganda 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 Ganda is worst in August — around 101 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 10.6× the cleanest month (January, 10 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateUnhealthyModerateGoodAug 1298 µg/m³Jan 110 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan10Good
Feb11Good
Mar12Moderate
Apr14Moderate
May27Moderate
Jun53Poor
Jul87Unhealthy
Aug101Unhealthy
Sep43Poor
Oct19Moderate
Nov11Good
Dec10Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Ganda 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. Ganda banks about 3,909 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)
Jan321
Feb301
Mar340
Apr330
May320
Jun273
Jul289
Aug342
Sep366
Oct374
Nov331
Dec322

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.

Ganda receives about 5.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 5.4 and 6.4 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseSep 116.4 kWhMar 225.4 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.8Bright
Feb5.8Bright
Mar5.4Bright
Apr5.6Bright
May5.7Bright
Jun5.5Bright
Jul5.7Bright
Aug6.1Intense
Sep6.4Intense
Oct6.2Intense
Nov5.7Bright
Dec5.5Bright

Where is Ganda?

Ganda sits at 13.0°S, 14.6°E, 1,267 m above sea level, in Angola. The nearest listed city is Cubal, 42 km away.

Cubal do LumboCaluquembeEcunna

Topography around Ganda

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ganda has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 96 m around an average of 1,227 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,273 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,057 m.

The land around Ganda is covered by cropland (45%) within 3 km, shrubs (31%), cropland (31%) and grassland (22%) within 16 km, and shrubs (37%) and cropland (28%) within 80 km.

3 km
96 m
16 km
1,273 m
80 km
2,057 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Cubal 42 km · Ucuma 46 km · Longonjo 68 km · Balombo 75 km · Bocoio 81 km · Cubal do Lumbo 96 km · Caluquembe 97 km · Ecunna 102 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 Ganda (-13.0159°, 14.635°, elevation 1,267 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).