Climate and average weather in Victoria

In Victoria, 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: mid May to early December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Victoria typically varies from 25°C to 28°C, and is rarely below 24°C or above 29°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Victoria for warm-weather activities are from late January to mid April and mid May to early December.

Hottest
Apr
28°
Coldest
Jul
25°
Wettest
Jan
226 mm
Driest
Jul
52 mm
Rain / yr
1485 mm
191 wet days
Daylight
11.7–12.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
4 m
4.6°S
Clearest
Apr
51% cloud

Victoria is capital city of the Seychelles.

Density
1,138/km²
people per km²

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

Victoria 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 December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Victoria stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is April, with an average high of 28°C and low of 27°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 25°C and high of 26°C.

Days typically run about 1°C warmer than nights year-round.

18°20°22°24°26°28°30°32°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2726
Feb2826
Mar2827
Apr2827
May2827
Jun2726
Jul2625
Aug2625
Sep2625
Oct2726
Nov2726
Dec2726

How hot and cold Victoria 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, Victoria feels like about 33°C (around April 27). About 44 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in April.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan30272626
Feb31282626
Mar31282727
Apr32282727
May32282627
Jun27272626
Jul26262525
Aug26262525
Sep26262525
Oct27272626
Nov30272626
Dec30272626

Average hourly temperature in Victoria

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 April afternoons, near 28°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 25°C.

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

Victoria 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° / 26°22620.912.24.8
Feb28° / 26°12012.712.25.7
Mar28° / 27°10815.1125.5
Apr28° / 27°10716.811.95.0
May28° / 27°13917.311.85.2
Jun27° / 26°8313.611.75.8
Jul26° / 25°521111.86.3
Aug26° / 25°6312.611.86.2
Sep26° / 25°11915.7125.7
Oct27° / 26°12115.612.15.9
Nov27° / 26°1441712.25.5
Dec27° / 26°20322.812.34.7

Chance of rain

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

Victoria gets about 1485 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 3.4 months, from around Oct 22 to Jan 31, peaking in December at about 76% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 28.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 226 mm over about 21 wet days; July is the driest, with 52 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetDec 20 · 76%Jul 28 · 32%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan6721
Feb4613
Mar4915
Apr5517
May5617
Jun4614
Jul3611
Aug4013
Sep5216
Oct5016
Nov5717
Dec7223

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Victoria collects about 1485 mm of rain across 191 wet days — roughly 124 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 226 mm, while July is the driest at just 52 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 39% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec226120108107139835263119121144203
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan22621
Feb12013
Mar10815
Apr10717
May13917
Jun8314
Jul5211
Aug6313
Sep11916
Oct12116
Nov14417
Dec20323

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Victoria, 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 8 and lasts for 2.6 months, ending around May 25. The clearest month is April, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 64% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 26 and lasts for 3.7 months, ending around September 16. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 66% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecApr 8 · 67%Jul 10 · 31%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3862
Feb4654
Mar5545
Apr6436
May5545
Jun3862
Jul3466
Aug4060
Sep5050
Oct6337
Nov6139
Dec5050

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. Close to the equator, Victoria barely changes through the year: days stay near 12 h 18 min of light in every season.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan12.26:206:35
Feb12.26:286:37
Mar12.06:276:29
Apr11.96:216:15
May11.86:216:08
Jun11.76:266:10
Jul11.86:316:16
Aug11.86:276:18
Sep12.06:136:12
Oct12.16:006:06
Nov12.25:576:10
Dec12.36:066:22

Sunny days

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

Victoria averages about 9 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 4 and 15 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 2.7 months, from around Mar 5 to May 25. The sunniest month is April, with roughly 14 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is July, down near 5 sunny days — about 65% fewer than the April peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightApr 715 daysJul 114 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan6Gloomy
Feb7Gloomy
Mar11Mixed
Apr13Mixed
May11Mixed
Jun6Gloomy
Jul5Gloomy
Aug6Gloomy
Sep9Mixed
Oct13Mixed
Nov13Mixed
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.

Victoria 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 January, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 0% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmiserableoppressivemuggy
Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan1937
Feb18712
Mar07822
Apr06139
May05841
Jun38611
Jul10900
Aug12880
Sep6940
Oct5923
Nov2934
Dec1927

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 Victoria is typically light breeze, near 19 km/h, and varies a lot with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.9 months, from around May 18 to Oct 12. The windiest month is August, averaging about 27 km/h (breezy).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Oct 13 to May 17, with April the calmest month at about 12 km/h.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezebreezywindyAug 12 · 28 km/hApr 9 · 12 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan16light breeze
Feb16light breeze
Mar13light breeze
Apr12light breeze
May19light breeze
Jun25breezy
Jul26breezy
Aug27breezy
Sep25breezy
Oct18light breeze
Nov14light breeze
Dec15light breeze

Hazard calendar for Victoria

In seasonPeak

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

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

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

Best time to visit Victoria

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late November, Victoria 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 times of year to visit Victoria for general outdoor tourist activities run from late January to mid April and again from mid May to late November, with a peak score in the last week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 27 · 6.5

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
Jan4.8fair
Feb5.7good
Mar5.5fair
Apr5.0fair
May5.2fair
Jun5.8good
Jul6.3good
Aug6.2good
Sep5.7good
Oct5.8good
Nov5.5fair
Dec4.7fair

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 Victoria for hot-weather activities is from late January to early December, with a peak score in the first week of April.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationApr 6 · 6.2

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 Victoria, 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.

Victoria packs about the same all year — highs hold near 28°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear, sun protection and a windbreaker.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Victoria sees daytime highs around 28°C and nights near 27°C. Pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 17 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Victoria

Average ocean temperature at the nearest coast, month by month, banded into swim-comfort zones — the other half of the beach question.

The sea offshore is warmest in April at about 30°C and coldest in August near 26°C.

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

24°26°28°30°32°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwarmtropicalcomfortable to swim
Sea temperature (°C)Comfort
Jan28Tropical
Feb29Tropical
Mar29Tropical
Apr30Tropical
May29Tropical
Jun27Warm
Jul26Warm
Aug26Warm
Sep27Warm
Oct28Warm
Nov28Tropical
Dec28Tropical

UV index (midday) in Victoria 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 Victoria peaks around March 15 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 23 at about 10 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 15UV 15Jun 23UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar16Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun10Extreme
Jul10Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep14Extreme
Oct14Extreme
Nov13Extreme
Dec13Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Victoria

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 March 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)
Jan8.56.5
Feb8.56.5
Mar8.57
Apr86.5
May86
Jun7.55
Jul7.55
Aug7.55.5
Sep86.5
Oct86.5
Nov86.5
Dec8.56.5
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Victoria 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. Victoria banks about 5,980 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around April.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan510
Feb475
Mar537
Apr526
May532
Jun483
Jul473
Aug473
Sep473
Oct502
Nov490
Dec506

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.

Victoria receives about 5.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 5.1 and 6.3 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 176.3 kWhJun 165.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.7Bright
Feb6.3Intense
Mar6.3Intense
Apr6.0Intense
May5.4Bright
Jun5.1Bright
Jul5.3Bright
Aug5.7Bright
Sep5.9Bright
Oct6.2Intense
Nov6.2Intense
Dec5.8Bright

Where is Victoria?

Victoria sits at 4.6°S, 55.5°E, 4 m above sea level, in Seychelles. The nearest listed city is Beau Vallon, 3.0 km away.

Beau VallonTakamaka

What Victoria looks like

Topography around Victoria

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Victoria has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 858 m around an average of 127 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 928 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 887 m.

The land around Victoria is covered by trees (54%) and water (28%) within 3 km, water (82%) within 16 km, and water (98%) within 80 km.

3 km
858 m
16 km
928 m
80 km
887 m
treesgrasslandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Beau Vallon 3.0 km · Takamaka 17 km · Antsiranana 1,091 km · Iharan̈a 1,140 km · Ambilobe 1,185 km · Antsohimbondrona 1,188 km · Sambava 1,219 km · Ambarakaraka 1,224 km

Seychelles travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 1
Exercise Normal Precautions
Power plugs
Type G
240 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 54% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$19,449
2025
Safe drinking water
65%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
8
per 100k, 2022
Road deaths
11.3
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
High
World Bank
Religion
Roman Catholic 76%Protestant 11%other Christian 2%Hindu 2%

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 Victoria (-4.62°, 55.455°, elevation 4 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).