Climate and average weather in Angoche

In Angoche, the weather is muggy, hot, wet, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around January.

Best: late April to late October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Angoche typically varies from 21°C to 30°C, and is rarely below 20°C or above 32°C. December is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Dec
30°
Coldest
Jul
21°
Wettest
Jan
224 mm
Driest
Sep
7 mm
Rain / yr
840 mm
120 wet days
Daylight
11.0–13.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
12 m
16.2°S
Clearest
Sep
19% cloud

Angoche is city in Mozambique.

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Angoche 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 October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Angoche stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is December, with an average high of 30°C and low of 25°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 21°C and high of 26°C.

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

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3025
Feb3025
Mar2925
Apr2925
May2723
Jun2622
Jul2621
Aug2621
Sep2722
Oct2923
Nov3025
Dec3025

How hot and cold Angoche 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, Angoche feels like about 36°C (around December 30). About 166 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in December.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan36302525
Feb36302525
Mar35292525
Apr32292425
May29272323
Jun26262122
Jul26262121
Aug26262121
Sep28272222
Oct31292323
Nov33302525
Dec35302525

Average hourly temperature in Angoche

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 December afternoons, near 30°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 21°C.

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

Angoche 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
Jan30° / 25°22423.512.93.5
Feb30° / 25°17120.412.53.6
Mar29° / 25°16619.912.14.2
Apr29° / 25°6512.711.65.7
May27° / 23°185.411.37.5
Jun26° / 22°175.911.17.8
Jul26° / 21°144.711.18.1
Aug26° / 21°103.511.58.3
Sep27° / 22°71.511.98.5
Oct29° / 23°102.112.47.4
Nov30° / 25°295.412.86.0
Dec30° / 25°10815.312.94.4

Chance of rain

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

Angoche gets about 840 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 4.6 months, from around Dec 2 to Apr 19, peaking in January at about 77% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Sep 16.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 224 mm over about 24 wet days; September is the driest, with 7 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJan 24 · 77%Sep 16 · 5%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan7424
Feb7320
Mar6520
Apr4113
May195
Jun196
Jul155
Aug114
Sep52
Oct72
Nov175
Dec5115

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Angoche collects about 840 mm of rain across 120 wet days — roughly 70 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 224 mm, while September is the driest at just 7 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 67% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec224171166651817141071029108
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan22424
Feb17120
Mar16620
Apr6513
May185
Jun176
Jul145
Aug104
Sep72
Oct102
Nov295
Dec10815

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Angoche, 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 9 and lasts for 7.5 months, ending around November 23. The clearest month is September, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 95% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around November 24 and lasts for 4.5 months, ending around April 8. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 68% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecSep 18 · 96%Jan 14 · 30%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3268
Feb3763
Mar5446
Apr8218
May919
Jun919
Jul928
Aug946
Sep955
Oct919
Nov8020
Dec5644

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 13 hours of light; the shortest, around June 13, only 11 hours — a swing of roughly 2 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan12.95:045:56
Feb12.55:195:51
Mar12.15:275:33
Apr11.65:325:10
May11.35:394:54
Jun11.15:494:52
Jul11.15:525:00
Aug11.55:415:08
Sep11.95:175:12
Oct12.44:545:17
Nov12.84:435:29
Dec12.94:485:45

Sunny days

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

Angoche averages about 18 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 5 and 26 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 7.6 months, from around Apr 13 to Nov 28. The sunniest month is September, with roughly 26 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is January, down near 5 sunny days — about 79% fewer than the September peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantSep 2426 daysJan 195 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan5Gloomy
Feb6Gloomy
Mar11Mixed
Apr18Bright
May22Bright
Jun21Bright
Jul22Bright
Aug25Brilliant
Sep26Brilliant
Oct26Brilliant
Nov20Bright
Dec12Mixed

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.

Angoche 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 100% of the time. Even in July, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 5% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmiserablemuggyoppressivehumid
Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan0003070
Feb0003169
Mar0013960
Apr01195921
May01053371
Jun3296080
Jul5405310
Aug4276630
Sep11166210
Oct0434610
Nov0111826
Dec0045245

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 Angoche is typically light breeze, near 14 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 7.6 months, from around Apr 22 to Dec 7. The windiest month is October, averaging about 17 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Dec 8 to Apr 21, with March the calmest month at about 12 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmlight breezeOct 30 · 17 km/hMar 21 · 12 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan13light breeze
Feb12light breeze
Mar12light breeze
Apr14light breeze
May15light breeze
Jun15light breeze
Jul15light breeze
Aug15light breeze
Sep16light breeze
Oct17light breeze
Nov16light breeze
Dec14light breeze

Hazard calendar for Angoche

In seasonPeak

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

Angoche sits in the South Indian Ocean cyclone belt; the season peaks January–March.

Angoche's monsoon runs December–March, when most of the year's rain falls.

Cyclone
Monsoon
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Angoche

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid May, Angoche 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 Angoche for general outdoor tourist activities is from late April to late October, with a peak score in the first week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 5 · 8.5

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
Jan3.5poor
Feb3.6fair
Mar4.2fair
Apr5.7good
May7.5good
Jun7.8ideal
Jul8.1ideal
Aug8.3ideal
Sep8.5ideal
Oct7.4good
Nov6.0good
Dec4.4fair

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 Angoche for hot-weather activities is from mid April to late November, with a peak score in the third week of October.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationOct 16 · 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 Angoche, 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.

Angoche packs about the same all year — highs hold near 30°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 December, Angoche sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 15 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Angoche

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 16 km away) is warmest in March at about 29°C and coldest in August near 25°C.

The water stays above 20°C all year — warm enough for a swim any month.

24°26°28°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecrefreshingwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan28Tropical
Feb29Tropical
Mar29Tropical
Apr29Tropical
May28Warm
Jun27Warm
Jul26Warm
Aug25Warm
Sep25Warm
Oct26Warm
Nov27Warm
Dec28Tropical

UV index (midday) in Angoche 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 Angoche peaks around January 18 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 19 at about 7 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highExtremeJan 18UV 15Jun 19UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan15Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr11Extreme
May8Very high
Jun7Very high
Jul8Very high
Aug9Very high
Sep11Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov12Extreme
Dec14Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Angoche

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
Feb8.56.5
Mar86.5
Apr7.55.5
May6.54
Jun63
Jul6.53.5
Aug74.5
Sep7.55.5
Oct86
Nov8.56
Dec97
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Angoche 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. Angoche banks about 5,770 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around December.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan547
Feb490
Mar536
Apr496
May469
Jun414
Jul408
Aug417
Sep433
Oct491
Nov516
Dec551

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.

Angoche receives about 5.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.2 and 7.3 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.6 months, from around Sep 3 to Mar 21. The brightest month is November, averaging about 7.2 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is June, down near 4.3 kWh/m² — roughly 41% less than the November peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseNov 127.3 kWhJun 264.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.2Intense
Feb6.2Intense
Mar5.8Bright
Apr5.3Bright
May4.7Bright
Jun4.2Bright
Jul4.4Bright
Aug5.2Bright
Sep6.2Intense
Oct6.9Intense
Nov7.2Intense
Dec6.9Intense

Where is Angoche?

Angoche sits at 16.2°S, 39.9°E, 12 m above sea level, in Mozambique. The nearest listed city is Nametil, 83 km away.

NampulaNamialoMonapoMurrupulaMozambiqueMossuril

Topography around Angoche

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Angoche has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 56 m around an average of 5 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 69 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 354 m.

The land around Angoche is covered by water (41%) and mangroves (25%) within 3 km, water (35%) and grassland (34%) within 16 km, and water (34%) and grassland (31%) within 80 km.

3 km
56 m
16 km
69 m
80 km
354 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwaterwetlandmangroves
Nearby: Nametil 83 km · Micolene 91 km · Nampula 142 km · Namialo 146 km · Monapo 152 km · Murrupula 157 km · Mozambique 160 km · Mossuril 162 km

Mozambique travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / F / M
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 37% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$627
2025
Happiness
5.3 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
28%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
3.6
per 100k, 2011
Road deaths
30
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Low
World Bank
English
Low
EF EPI 465
Religion
Catholic 27%Islam 19%Pentecostal 17%Saio/Zione 16%

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 Angoche (-16.2325°, 39.9086°, elevation 12 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. Tropical-cyclone seasons are the published climatological basin seasons (NOAA National Hurricane Center / regional warning centres). 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. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).