Climate and average weather in Murrupula

In Murrupula, the summers are humid, sweltering, fairly dry, and mostly clear and the winters are warm and mostly clear.

Best: late April to mid September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Murrupula typically varies from 16°C to 33°C, and is rarely below 14°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 Murrupula for warm-weather activities is from late April to mid September.

Hottest
Nov
33°
Coldest
Jul
16°
Wettest
Jan
284 mm
Driest
Sep
6 mm
Rain / yr
956 mm
124 wet days
Daylight
11.1–12.9 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
456 m
15.5°S
Clearest
Sep
30% cloud

Murrupula is town in Nampula, Mozambique.

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

Murrupula 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 September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 2.7 months, from September 29 to December 20, with daily high temperatures above 31°C. The hottest month of the year in Murrupula is November, with an average high of 33°C and low of 22°C.

The cool season lasts 2.5 months, from May 26 to August 8, with daily high temperatures below 27°C. The coldest month of the year in Murrupula is July, with an average low of 16°C and high of 25°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 12°C) in October.

10°15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3022
Feb3022
Mar2922
Apr2820
May2718
Jun2617
Jul2516
Aug2717
Sep3018
Oct3220
Nov3322
Dec3222

How hot and cold Murrupula 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, Murrupula feels like about 35°C (around November 20). About 163 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in November.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan34302222
Feb33302222
Mar32292222
Apr30282020
May28271818
Jun26261617
Jul25251616
Aug27271717
Sep30301818
Oct32322020
Nov34332222
Dec34322222

Average hourly temperature in Murrupula

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 33°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 16°C.

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

Murrupula 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° / 22°28425.712.83.1
Feb30° / 22°19720.812.53.4
Mar29° / 22°13820.112.14.0
Apr28° / 20°4811.211.75.7
May27° / 18°144.211.37.5
Jun26° / 17°114.211.17.9
Jul25° / 16°113.611.28.0
Aug27° / 17°82.711.57.8
Sep30° / 18°61.511.96.3
Oct32° / 20°163.312.44.8
Nov33° / 22°537.612.73.7
Dec32° / 22°1721912.93.2

Chance of rain

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

Murrupula gets about 956 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 4.7 months, from around Nov 26 to Apr 16, peaking in January at about 83% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Sep 18.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 284 mm over about 26 wet days; September is the driest, with 6 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJan 18 · 83%Sep 18 · 4%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan8126
Feb7521
Mar6520
Apr3711
May154
Jun144
Jul114
Aug83
Sep62
Oct113
Nov258
Dec6219

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Murrupula collects about 956 mm of rain across 124 wet days — roughly 80 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 284 mm, while September is the driest at just 6 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 68% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec28419713848141111861653172
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan28426
Feb19721
Mar13820
Apr4811
May144
Jun114
Jul114
Aug83
Sep62
Oct163
Nov538
Dec17219

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Murrupula, 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 15 and lasts for 7.4 months, ending around November 24. The clearest month is September, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 88% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around November 25 and lasts for 4.6 months, ending around April 14. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 81% 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 23 · 89%Jan 19 · 16%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1981
Feb2674
Mar4159
Apr6238
May7525
Jun7723
Jul7426
Aug8119
Sep8812
Oct8515
Nov7030
Dec3862

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 54 min of light; the shortest, around June 2, only 11 h 06 min — a swing of roughly 1 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan12.85:105:59
Feb12.55:245:55
Mar12.15:325:38
Apr11.75:365:15
May11.35:435:00
Jun11.15:534:58
Jul11.25:565:06
Aug11.55:455:14
Sep11.95:225:17
Oct12.45:005:21
Nov12.74:495:33
Dec12.94:545:49

Sunny days

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

Murrupula averages about 11 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 21 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.5 months, from around Jul 14 to Nov 26. The sunniest month is September, with roughly 20 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is January, down near 2 sunny days — about 91% fewer than the September peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightbrilliantSep 2121 daysJan 191 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan2Gloomy
Feb3Gloomy
Mar5Gloomy
Apr8Mixed
May13Mixed
Jun12Mixed
Jul12Mixed
Aug16Bright
Sep20Bright
Oct20Bright
Nov14Mixed
Dec6Gloomy

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 7.3 months, from around October 18 to May 28. 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 29 to October 17, and July is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 74% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 23 · 77%Jan 1 · 0%oppressivemuggyhumidcomfortabledryhumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan00015850
Feb00016840
Mar00124741
Apr011954270
May013553010
Jun44448400
Jul96525100
Aug126324100
Sep75437200
Oct228551500
Nov09424190
Dec00935560

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 Murrupula is typically calm, near 9 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around May 31 to Nov 29. The windiest month is October, averaging about 11 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Nov 30 to Apr 15, with January the calmest month at about 8 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeOct 3 · 11 km/hJan 31 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan8calm
Feb8calm
Mar8calm
Apr9calm
May9calm
Jun9calm
Jul10calm
Aug10calm
Sep11calm
Oct11calm
Nov10calm
Dec8calm

Hazard calendar for Murrupula

In seasonPeak

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

Murrupula'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 Murrupula

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 21 · 8.1

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
Jan3.1poor
Feb3.4poor
Mar4.0fair
Apr5.7good
May7.5good
Jun7.9ideal
Jul8.0ideal
Aug7.7ideal
Sep6.3good
Oct4.8fair
Nov3.7fair
Dec3.2poor

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 Murrupula 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 8 · 8.7

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 Murrupula, 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 33°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around July (highs near 25°C), pack light clothes.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In November, Murrupula sees daytime highs around 33°C and nights near 22°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 8 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Murrupula 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 Murrupula peaks around January 14 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 19 at about 8 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highExtremeJan 14UV 15Jun 19UV 8
UV index (midday)Level
Jan16Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May9Very high
Jun8Very high
Jul8Very high
Aug10Very high
Sep11Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov13Extreme
Dec15Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Murrupula

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
May6.54.5
Jun6.53.5
Jul6.54
Aug75
Sep7.55.5
Oct86
Nov8.56.5
Dec8.57

Air quality in Murrupula 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 Murrupula is worst in September — around 23 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 3.4× the cleanest month (December, 7 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecGoodModerateGoodSep 2022 µg/m³Dec 217 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan7Good
Feb8Good
Mar8Good
Apr8Good
May8Good
Jun7Good
Jul8Good
Aug12Good
Sep23Moderate
Oct19Moderate
Nov10Good
Dec7Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Murrupula 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. Murrupula banks about 5,270 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around November.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan503
Feb448
Mar484
Apr432
May393
Jun332
Jul329
Aug370
Sep425
Oct502
Nov525
Dec527

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.

Murrupula receives about 5.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.0 and 6.9 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.2 months, from around Aug 28 to Mar 5. The brightest month is November, averaging about 6.7 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is June, down near 4.1 kWh/m² — roughly 39% less than the November peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseNov 106.9 kWhJun 284.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.5Bright
Feb5.6Bright
Mar5.3Bright
Apr4.8Bright
May4.5Bright
Jun4.1Bright
Jul4.2Bright
Aug5.0Bright
Sep6.1Intense
Oct6.6Intense
Nov6.7Intense
Dec6.2Intense

Where is Murrupula?

Murrupula sits at 15.5°S, 38.7°E, 456 m above sea level, in Mozambique. The nearest listed city is Ribáuè, 68 km away.

Alto MolocueMalemaNamialoMicolene

Topography around Murrupula

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Murrupula has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 216 m around an average of 430 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 785 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,558 m.

The land around Murrupula is covered by cropland (38%), grassland (24%) and shrubs (23%) within 3 km, shrubs (36%), grassland (27%) and cropland (22%) within 16 km, and shrubs (39%), trees (30%) and grassland (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
216 m
16 km
785 m
80 km
1,558 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Ribáuè 68 km · Nampula 74 km · Nametil 77 km · Iapala 83 km · Alto Molocue 108 km · Malema 147 km · Namialo 152 km · Micolene 154 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 Murrupula (-15.4569°, 38.6772°, elevation 456 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).