Climate and average weather in Chokwé

In Chokwé, the summers are muggy, hot, showery, and partly cloudy and the winters are warm and clear.

Best: mid May to early September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Chokwé typically varies from 15°C to 33°C, and is rarely below 11°C or above 37°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 Chokwé for warm-weather activities is from mid May to early September.

Hottest
Feb
33°
Coldest
Jul
15°
Wettest
Jan
107 mm
Driest
Jul
8 mm
Rain / yr
511 mm
66 wet days
Daylight
10.5–13.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
35 m
24.5°S
Clearest
Jun
24% cloud

Chokwé is city in Mozambique.

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

Chokwé 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 mid May to early September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Chokwé stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 33°C and low of 23°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 15°C and high of 26°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3224
Feb3323
Mar3223
Apr3020
May2817
Jun2615
Jul2615
Aug2816
Sep2918
Oct3020
Nov3122
Dec3223

How hot and cold Chokwé 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, Chokwé feels like about 36°C (around February 7). About 152 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in February.

10°15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan35322324
Feb36332323
Mar34322323
Apr31302020
May28281717
Jun26261515
Jul26261515
Aug27281616
Sep29291818
Oct31302020
Nov32312222
Dec34322323

Average hourly temperature in Chokwé

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 33°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 15°C.

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

Chokwé 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
Jan32° / 24°10711.413.43.8
Feb33° / 23°748.612.93.9
Mar32° / 23°577.812.24.4
Apr30° / 20°275.611.45.8
May28° / 17°122.810.87.5
Jun26° / 15°92.110.58.5
Jul26° / 15°81.910.68.6
Aug28° / 16°81.611.18.1
Sep29° / 18°152.811.86.5
Oct30° / 20°254.212.65.5
Nov31° / 22°69813.24.5
Dec32° / 23°1019.213.54.0

Chance of rain

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

Chokwé gets about 511 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 5.5 months, from around Oct 29 to Apr 13, peaking in January at about 38% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Aug 21.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 107 mm over about 11 wet days; July is the driest, with 8 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJan 17 · 38%Aug 21 · 4%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3611
Feb319
Mar268
Apr186
May93
Jun72
Jul62
Aug52
Sep83
Oct144
Nov268
Dec309

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Chokwé collects about 511 mm of rain across 66 wet days — roughly 43 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 107 mm, while July is the driest at just 8 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 55% of the year’s total.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec10774572712988152569101
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan10711
Feb749
Mar578
Apr276
May123
Jun92
Jul82
Aug82
Sep153
Oct254
Nov698
Dec1019

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Chokwé, 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 March 9 and lasts for 6.4 months, ending around September 19. The clearest month is June, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 89% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 20 and lasts for 5.6 months, ending around March 8. The cloudiest month is November, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 52% 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 1 · 90%Dec 2 · 42%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5842
Feb6436
Mar7228
Apr7822
May8713
Jun8911
Jul8614
Aug8218
Sep7327
Oct5941
Nov4852
Dec4951

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 h 30 min of light; the shortest, around June 6, only 10 h 30 min — a swing of roughly 3 hours.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan13.45:166:38
Feb12.95:376:28
Mar12.25:526:03
Apr11.46:055:31
May10.86:205:09
Jun10.56:345:03
Jul10.66:355:12
Aug11.16:185:26
Sep11.85:475:38
Oct12.65:165:51
Nov13.24:576:10
Dec13.54:596:30

Sunny days

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

Chokwé averages about 16 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 8 and 23 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.7 months, from around Apr 8 to Sep 29. The sunniest month is May, with roughly 22 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is December, down near 9 sunny days — about 57% fewer than the May peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantMay 2923 daysDec 48 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan11Mixed
Feb12Mixed
Mar15Mixed
Apr17Bright
May22Bright
Jun22Bright
Jul22Bright
Aug21Bright
Sep18Bright
Oct13Mixed
Nov10Mixed
Dec10Mixed

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 Chokwé, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 6.8 months, from around October 15 to May 10. 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 May 11 to October 14, and July is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 88% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 20 · 89%Jan 17 · 0%oppressivecomfortablehumidmuggydryhumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan00839476
Feb00742465
Mar011450332
Apr111384290
May1232431300
Jun374220100
Jul474112000
Aug394119100
Sep193836600
Oct726422410
Nov2103243140
Dec032241313

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 Chokwé is typically calm, near 12 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.9 months, from around Aug 14 to Mar 12. The windiest month is September, averaging about 13 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Mar 13 to Aug 13, with May the calmest month at about 10 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeSep 30 · 14 km/hMay 11 · 10 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan12light breeze
Feb12light breeze
Mar12calm
Apr11calm
May10calm
Jun11calm
Jul11calm
Aug12calm
Sep13light breeze
Oct13light breeze
Nov13light breeze
Dec12light breeze

Hazard calendar for Chokwé

In seasonPeak

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

Chokwé's rainy season runs November–March, 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 Chokwé

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid May, Chokwé 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 Chokwé for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid May to early September, with a peak score in the third week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 20 · 8.7

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
Jan3.8fair
Feb3.9fair
Mar4.5fair
Apr5.8good
May7.5good
Jun8.5ideal
Jul8.6ideal
Aug8.1ideal
Sep6.5good
Oct5.5good
Nov4.5fair
Dec4.0fair

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 Chokwé for hot-weather activities is from mid March to early November, with a peak score in the first week of September.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 1 · 8.8

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 Chokwé, 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 February (highs near 33°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around July (highs near 26°C), pack light clothes.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Chokwé sees daytime highs around 33°C and nights near 23°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: rain gear and sun protection. About 9 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Chokwé 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 Chokwé peaks around January 19 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 23 at about 5 (high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highHighVery highExtremeJan 19UV 14Jun 23UV 5
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar11Extreme
Apr8Very high
May6High
Jun5High
Jul5High
Aug7High
Sep8Very high
Oct10Very high
Nov12Extreme
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Chokwé

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
Mar85.5
Apr6.54
May5.51
Jun4.50
Jul4.50
Aug62.5
Sep74
Oct7.55
Nov8.56
Dec96.5

Air quality in Chokwé 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 Chokwé is worst in September — around 18 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.8× the cleanest month (January, 7 µg/m³).

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodSep 1218 µg/m³Jan 197 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan7Good
Feb7Good
Mar8Good
Apr11Good
May13Moderate
Jun14Moderate
Jul15Moderate
Aug16Moderate
Sep18Moderate
Oct13Moderate
Nov10Good
Dec8Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Chokwé 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. Chokwé banks about 5,374 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around February.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan553
Feb503
Mar532
Apr455
May397
Jun323
Jul317
Aug366
Sep418
Oct473
Nov495
Dec541

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.

Chokwé receives about 4.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.4 and 6.1 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.7 months, from around Sep 6 to Mar 29. The brightest month is December, averaging about 6.0 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is June, down near 3.5 kWh/m² — roughly 41% less than the December peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseDec 246.1 kWhJun 303.4 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.9Bright
Feb5.7Bright
Mar5.2Bright
Apr4.5Bright
May4.0Moderate
Jun3.5Moderate
Jul3.6Moderate
Aug4.4Bright
Sep5.0Bright
Oct5.4Bright
Nov5.7Bright
Dec6.0Intense

Where is Chokwé?

Chokwé sits at 24.5°S, 33.0°E, 35 m above sea level, in Mozambique. The nearest listed city is Xilembene, 33 km away.

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Topography around Chokwé

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Chokwé has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 11 m around an average of 29 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 51 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 264 m.

The land around Chokwé is covered by artificial surfaces (40%) and grassland (38%) within 3 km, grassland (43%), trees (27%) and cropland (20%) within 16 km, and trees (49%) and grassland (24%) within 80 km.

3 km
11 m
16 km
51 m
80 km
264 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Xilembene 33 km · Macia 56 km · Chibuto 58 km · Xai-Xai 88 km · Manhiça 98 km · Ressano Garcia 142 km · Komatipoort 144 km · Maputo 164 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 Chokwé (-24.5333°, 32.9833°, elevation 35 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).