Climate and average weather in Lubalo

In Lubalo, 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 November.

Best: late April to mid August

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Lubalo typically varies from 17°C to 32°C, and is rarely below 15°C or above 34°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while December is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Lubalo for warm-weather activities is from late April to mid August.

Hottest
Aug
32°
Coldest
Dec
18°
Wettest
Nov
236 mm
Driest
Jul
0 mm
Rain / yr
1500 mm
194 wet days
Daylight
11.5–12.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,227 m
9.2°S
Clearest
Jun
25% cloud

Lubalo 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 mid August.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

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

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in July.

10°15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2718
Feb2819
Mar2818
Apr2818
May3018
Jun3117
Jul3117
Aug3218
Sep3018
Oct2818
Nov2718
Dec2718

Average hourly temperature in Lubalo

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 August afternoons, near 32°C, and coldest before dawn in December, near 18°C.

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

Lubalo 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
Jan27° / 18°20725.612.53.9
Feb28° / 19°16722.212.34.0
Mar28° / 18°21626.212.13.9
Apr28° / 18°13117.811.84.7
May30° / 18°102.511.65.8
Jun31° / 17°10.211.56.2
Jul31° / 17°0011.56.1
Aug32° / 18°92.211.75.1
Sep30° / 18°8515.511.94.2
Oct28° / 18°20427.112.23.7
Nov27° / 18°23627.512.43.6
Dec27° / 18°23527.612.53.7

Chance of rain

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

Lubalo gets about 1500 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 7.1 months, from around Sep 16 to Apr 19, peaking in November at about 93% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 19.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 236 mm over about 28 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 29 · 93%Jun 19 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan8326
Feb7922
Mar8426
Apr5918
May93
Jun10
Jul00
Aug82
Sep5216
Oct8727
Nov9128
Dec8928

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Lubalo collects about 1500 mm of rain across 194 wet days — roughly 125 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 236 mm, while July is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 46% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec2071672161311010985204236235
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan20726
Feb16722
Mar21626
Apr13118
May103
Jun10
Jul00
Aug92
Sep8516
Oct20427
Nov23628
Dec23528

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Lubalo, 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 5.1 months, ending around September 24. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 86% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 25 and lasts for 6.9 months, ending around April 23. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 95% 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 · 89%Dec 10 · 4%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan694
Feb892
Mar1189
Apr2971
May6535
Jun8515
Jul8614
Aug7822
Sep5149
Oct2080
Nov1090
Dec595

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 22, 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)
Jan12.55:386:07
Feb12.35:486:06
Mar12.15:515:54
Apr11.85:495:37
May11.65:525:27
Jun11.55:595:27
Jul11.56:035:34
Aug11.75:565:38
Sep11.95:395:36
Oct12.25:225:34
Nov12.45:155:41
Dec12.55:235:55

Sunny days

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

Lubalo averages about 7 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 24 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.5 months, from around Apr 30 to Sep 12. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 22 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is January, down near 0 sunny days — about 99% fewer than the June peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantJun 2224 daysJan 190 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan0Gloomy
Feb0Gloomy
Mar0Gloomy
Apr3Gloomy
May13Mixed
Jun21Bright
Jul22Bright
Aug17Bright
Sep7Gloomy
Oct1Gloomy
Nov0Gloomy
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 Lubalo, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 7.4 months, from around September 15 to April 27. The muggiest month is October, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 98% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around April 28 to September 14, 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 3 · 100%Oct 22 · 0%muggyhumiddrycomfortablehumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan023761
Feb023563
Mar012079
Apr4113154
May6019165
Jun94420
Jul99100
Aug791380
Sep20164619
Oct012474
Nov002377
Dec003267

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.

Across the year, average wind speed in Lubalo is typically calm, near 7 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.6 months, from around Apr 19 to Sep 6. The windiest month is July, averaging about 10 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 7 to Apr 18, with November the calmest month at about 5 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJul 6 · 10 km/hNov 9 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar5calm
Apr7calm
May9calm
Jun10calm
Jul10calm
Aug8calm
Sep6calm
Oct5calm
Nov5calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Lubalo

In seasonPeak

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

Lubalo'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 Lubalo

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early May, Lubalo is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 22 · 6.4

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
Jan4.0fair
Feb4.0fair
Mar3.9fair
Apr4.7fair
May5.8good
Jun6.2good
Jul6.0good
Aug5.1fair
Sep4.2fair
Oct3.7fair
Nov3.7fair
Dec3.7fair

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 Lubalo for hot-weather activities is from early May to early September, with a peak score in the last week of June.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 22 · 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 Lubalo, 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.

Lubalo packs about the same all year — highs hold near 32°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 August, Lubalo sees daytime highs around 32°C and nights near 18°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Lubalo 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 Lubalo peaks around January 20 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 highExtremeJan 20UV 15Aug 12UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan16Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May10Very high
Jun9Very high
Jul8Very high
Aug7High
Sep11Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov13Extreme
Dec13Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Lubalo

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
Mar86.5
Apr86
May75
Jun74.5
Jul6.53.5
Aug6.53
Sep7.55.5
Oct86.5
Nov8.56.5
Dec86.5

Air quality in Lubalo 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 Lubalo is worst in July — around 166 µg/m³ PM2.5 (very unhealthy), about 21.0× the cleanest month (April, 8 µg/m³).

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

0306090120150180JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateUnhealthyVery unhealthyUnhealthyModerateGoodJul 23165 µg/m³Apr 108 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan11Good
Feb12Good
Mar10Good
Apr8Good
May21Moderate
Jun46Poor
Jul166Very unhealthy
Aug161Very unhealthy
Sep30Moderate
Oct14Moderate
Nov9Good
Dec9Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Lubalo 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. Lubalo banks about 4,884 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan392
Feb367
Mar403
Apr396
May437
Jun411
Jul428
Aug456
Sep427
Oct406
Nov376
Dec385

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.

Lubalo receives about 5.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 5.0 and 5.8 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseJul 315.8 kWhDec 185.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.1Bright
Feb5.4Bright
Mar5.2Bright
Apr5.2Bright
May5.6Bright
Jun5.6Bright
Jul5.8Bright
Aug5.8Bright
Sep5.6Bright
Oct5.6Bright
Nov5.3Bright
Dec5.0Bright

Where is Lubalo?

Lubalo sits at 9.2°S, 19.3°E, 1,227 m above sea level, in Angola. The nearest listed city is Cuilo, 106 km away.

CuiloSaurimoCuango-LuzambaCafunfoLucapaCambundi CatemboLuquemboKunda dya Baze

Topography around Lubalo

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Lubalo has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 106 m around an average of 1,196 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 197 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 339 m.

The land around Lubalo is covered by grassland (44%) and shrubs (41%) within 3 km, trees (45%) and grassland (38%) within 16 km, and trees (58%) and grassland (35%) within 80 km.

3 km
106 m
16 km
197 m
80 km
339 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswetland
Nearby: Cuilo 106 km · Saurimo 134 km · Cuango-Luzamba 136 km · Cafunfo 148 km · Lucapa 180 km · Cambundi Catembo 216 km · Luquembo 246 km · Kunda dya Baze 246 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 Lubalo (-9.1545°, 19.2814°, elevation 1,227 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).