Climate and average weather in Gondola

In Gondola, the summers are humid, hot, showery, and partly cloudy and the winters are warm and mostly clear.

Best: mid April to mid September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Gondola typically varies from 14°C to 31°C, and is rarely below 11°C or above 36°C. November is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Nov
31°
Coldest
Jul
14°
Wettest
Jan
185 mm
Driest
Jun
9 mm
Rain / yr
823 mm
112 wet days
Daylight
10.8–13.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
627 m
19.1°S
Clearest
Sep
29% cloud

Gondola 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 April to mid September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Gondola stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is November, with an average high of 31°C and low of 20°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 14°C and high of 24°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 13°C) in September.

10°15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2921
Feb2921
Mar2821
Apr2718
May2616
Jun2514
Jul2414
Aug2615
Sep2917
Oct3019
Nov3120
Dec3021

How hot and cold Gondola 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, Gondola feels like about 32°C (around December 30). About 34 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in December.

10°15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan32292121
Feb32292121
Mar30282021
Apr28271818
May26261616
Jun24251414
Jul24241414
Aug26261515
Sep29291717
Oct31301919
Nov32312020
Dec32302121

Average hourly temperature in Gondola

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 November afternoons, near 31°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 14°C.

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

Gondola 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
Jan29° / 21°18519.4134.1
Feb29° / 21°14416.612.64.4
Mar28° / 21°10815.912.15.2
Apr27° / 18°428.711.66.9
May26° / 16°143.611.18.2
Jun25° / 14°92.810.98.6
Jul24° / 14°103.6118.5
Aug26° / 15°103.311.48.2
Sep29° / 17°173.811.96.7
Oct30° / 19°346.312.45.5
Nov31° / 20°7911.112.94.5
Dec30° / 21°17217.213.14.2

Chance of rain

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

Gondola gets about 823 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 5.1 months, from around Nov 10 to Apr 13, peaking in January at about 64% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 15.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 185 mm over about 19 wet days; June is the driest, with 9 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJan 13 · 64%Jun 15 · 10%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan6219
Feb5917
Mar5116
Apr299
May134
Jun103
Jul114
Aug113
Sep134
Oct216
Nov3711
Dec5617

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Gondola collects about 823 mm of rain across 112 wet days — roughly 69 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 185 mm, while June is the driest at just 9 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 61% of the year’s total.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec185144108421491010173479172
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan18519
Feb14417
Mar10816
Apr429
May144
Jun93
Jul104
Aug103
Sep174
Oct346
Nov7911
Dec17217

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Gondola, 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 5 and lasts for 7.0 months, ending around November 4. The clearest month is May, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 84% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around November 5 and lasts for 5.0 months, ending around April 4. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 60% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMay 9 · 84%Dec 24 · 38%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4258
Feb5347
Mar6238
Apr7426
May8416
Jun8119
Jul7525
Aug8020
Sep8020
Oct7228
Nov5743
Dec4060

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 December 21, brings about 13 h 12 min of light; the shortest, around June 21, only 10 h 48 min — a swing of roughly 2 h 24 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan13.05:246:26
Feb12.65:416:19
Mar12.15:515:59
Apr11.65:595:33
May11.16:095:15
Jun10.96:205:11
Jul11.06:225:20
Aug11.46:095:30
Sep11.95:435:37
Oct12.45:175:44
Nov12.95:035:58
Dec13.15:076:16

Sunny days

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

Gondola averages about 14 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 7 and 21 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 6.7 months, from around Apr 15 to Nov 5. The sunniest month is September, with roughly 21 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is December, down near 7 sunny days — about 64% fewer than the September peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantSep 621 daysDec 217 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan7Gloomy
Feb8Mixed
Mar11Mixed
Apr14Mixed
May20Bright
Jun18Bright
Jul17Bright
Aug20Bright
Sep20Bright
Oct18Bright
Nov11Mixed
Dec8Gloomy

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 6.7 months, from around October 12 to May 2. 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 3 to October 11, and July is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 97% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 12 · 97%Jan 14 · 0%oppressivehumidmuggycomfortabledryhumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan0063855
Feb0064351
Mar01135036
Apr21538378
May18433260
Jun53371000
Jul6730300
Aug5635900
Sep31402540
Oct82744211
Nov111324411
Dec03153943

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 Gondola is steady company: average speeds sit near 9 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeOct 17 · 10 km/hMay 21 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb9calm
Mar9calm
Apr9calm
May8calm
Jun9calm
Jul9calm
Aug9calm
Sep10calm
Oct10calm
Nov9calm
Dec9calm

Hazard calendar for Gondola

In seasonPeak

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

Gondola's monsoon runs December–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 Gondola

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early September, Gondola 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 Gondola for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid April to mid September, with a peak score in the third week of June.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 16 · 8.6

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
Jan4.1fair
Feb4.4fair
Mar5.2fair
Apr6.9good
May8.1ideal
Jun8.6ideal
Jul8.5ideal
Aug8.2ideal
Sep6.8good
Oct5.5fair
Nov4.5fair
Dec4.2fair

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 Gondola for hot-weather activities is from mid April to mid November, with a peak score in the second week of September.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 11 · 8.5

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 Gondola, 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 November (highs near 31°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around July (highs near 24°C), pack light clothes.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In November, Gondola sees daytime highs around 31°C and nights near 20°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 11 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Gondola 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 Gondola peaks around January 17 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 21 at about 7 (high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highHighVery highExtremeJan 17UV 14Jun 21UV 7
UV index (midday)Level
Jan15Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr10Very high
May8Very high
Jun7High
Jul7High
Aug8Very high
Sep8Very high
Oct12Extreme
Nov14Extreme
Dec13Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Gondola

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
Apr75
May6.53.5
Jun62.5
Jul62.5
Aug6.53.5
Sep74
Oct86
Nov8.57
Dec8.56.5

Air quality in Gondola 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 Gondola is worst in September — around 115 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 19.8× the cleanest month (December, 6 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateUnhealthyGoodSep 13111 µg/m³Dec 236 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan6Good
Feb8Good
Mar7Good
Apr8Good
May13Moderate
Jun16Moderate
Jul42Poor
Aug91Unhealthy
Sep115Unhealthy
Oct52Poor
Nov12Moderate
Dec6Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Gondola 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. Gondola banks about 4,724 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around November.

01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan477
Feb426
Mar448
Apr383
May339
Jun279
Jul273
Aug324
Sep384
Oct449
Nov465
Dec477

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.

Gondola receives about 5.3 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.8 and 6.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.8 months, from around Aug 29 to Mar 22. The brightest month is November, averaging about 6.2 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is July, down near 4.0 kWh/m² — roughly 35% less than the November peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseNov 66.4 kWhJul 43.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.8Bright
Feb5.8Bright
Mar5.4Bright
Apr4.9Bright
May4.5Bright
Jun4.0Moderate
Jul4.0Moderate
Aug4.9Bright
Sep5.8Bright
Oct6.2Intense
Nov6.2Intense
Dec5.9Bright

Where is Gondola?

Gondola sits at 19.1°S, 33.6°E, 627 m above sea level, in Mozambique. The nearest listed city is Chimoio, 18 km away.

MutareChimanimani

Topography around Gondola

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Gondola has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 136 m around an average of 597 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 522 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,543 m.

The land around Gondola is covered by trees (35%) and cropland (21%) within 3 km, trees (35%), grassland (26%) and cropland (22%) within 16 km, and trees (51%) and grassland (22%) within 80 km.

3 km
136 m
16 km
522 m
80 km
1,543 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Chimoio 18 km · Messica 60 km · Nhamatanda 63 km · Gorongosa 64 km · Manica 83 km · Machipanda 97 km · Mutare 104 km · Chimanimani 114 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 Gondola (-19.0883°, 33.6486°, elevation 627 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).