Climate and average weather in Kaambooni

In Kaambooni, the weather is muggy, hot, wet, and mostly clear and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around May.

Best: late June to late October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Kaambooni typically varies from 24°C to 32°C, and is rarely below 23°C or above 33°C. March is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Kaambooni for warm-weather activities are from late June to late October and late December to early March.

Hottest
Mar
32°
Coldest
Jul
24°
Wettest
May
154 mm
Driest
Feb
2 mm
Rain / yr
566 mm
128 wet days
Daylight
11.9–12.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
5 m
1.6°S
Clearest
Mar
39% cloud

Kaambooni is human settlement.

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

Kaambooni 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 June to late October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Kaambooni stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is March, with an average high of 32°C and low of 26°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 24°C and high of 27°C.

Days typically run about 4°C warmer than nights year-round.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3025
Feb3125
Mar3226
Apr3127
May2926
Jun2825
Jul2724
Aug2724
Sep2824
Oct2925
Nov3026
Dec3026

How hot and cold Kaambooni 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, Kaambooni feels like about 38°C (around April 4). About 222 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in April.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan34302525
Feb35312525
Mar37322626
Apr37312627
May33292526
Jun30282525
Jul28272424
Aug29272424
Sep30282424
Oct32292525
Nov34302626
Dec35302626

Average hourly temperature in Kaambooni

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 March afternoons, near 32°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 24°C.

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

Kaambooni 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°141.412.15.9
Feb31° / 25°20.612.15.8
Mar32° / 26°123.3125.1
Apr31° / 27°8118123.9
May29° / 26°15423.611.94.0
Jun28° / 25°6517.111.95.2
Jul27° / 24°471411.95.8
Aug27° / 24°3111.611.96.4
Sep28° / 24°268.6126.6
Oct29° / 25°469.7125.8
Nov30° / 26°5512.212.14.9
Dec30° / 26°327.412.15.3

Chance of rain

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

Kaambooni gets about 566 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 Apr 3 to Aug 20, peaking in May at about 78% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 20.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 154 mm over about 24 wet days; February is the driest, with 2 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 4 · 78%Feb 20 · 2%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan51
Feb31
Mar113
Apr5918
May7524
Jun5817
Jul4614
Aug3612
Sep299
Oct3210
Nov4012
Dec247

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Kaambooni collects about 566 mm of rain across 128 wet days — roughly 47 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 154 mm, while February is the driest at just 2 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 53% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150175200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec142128115465473126465532
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan141
Feb21
Mar123
Apr8118
May15424
Jun6517
Jul4714
Aug3112
Sep269
Oct4610
Nov5512
Dec327

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Kaambooni, 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 August 22 and lasts for 7.6 months, ending around April 8. The clearest month is September, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 80% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 9 and lasts for 4.4 months, ending around August 21. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 50% 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 29 · 82%Jun 18 · 47%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7624
Feb7723
Mar7921
Apr6337
May5644
Jun5050
Jul5050
Aug6436
Sep8020
Oct7723
Nov7129
Dec7822

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, Kaambooni barely changes through the year: days stay near 12 h 06 min of light in every season.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan12.16:206:25
Feb12.16:276:30
Mar12.06:236:24
Apr12.06:156:13
May11.96:126:08
Jun11.96:176:11
Jul11.96:226:17
Aug11.96:196:16
Sep12.06:086:08
Oct12.05:586:00
Nov12.15:576:01
Dec12.16:076:13

Sunny days

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

Kaambooni 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 19 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.5 months, from around Nov 22 to Apr 6. The sunniest month is March, with roughly 18 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is June, down near 8 sunny days — about 55% fewer than the March peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantMar 519 daysJun 177 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan18Bright
Feb16Bright
Mar19Bright
Apr12Mixed
May10Mixed
Jun8Mixed
Jul9Mixed
Aug13Mixed
Sep17Bright
Oct16Bright
Nov14Mixed
Dec18Bright

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.

Kaambooni 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 (%)
Jan2926
Feb1927
Mar07128
Apr03268
May06139
Jun8892
Jul38620
Aug48520
Sep34660
Oct10874
Nov08119
Dec08119

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 Kaambooni is typically light breeze, near 18 km/h, and varies a lot with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.8 months, from around May 12 to Oct 3. The windiest month is July, averaging about 23 km/h (breezy).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Oct 4 to Dec 31, with November the calmest month at about 13 km/h.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezebreezywindyJul 11 · 23 km/hNov 20 · 12 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan19light breeze
Feb18light breeze
Mar15light breeze
Apr15light breeze
May19light breeze
Jun22breezy
Jul23breezy
Aug21breezy
Sep20light breeze
Oct16light breeze
Nov13light breeze
Dec15light breeze

Hazard calendar for Kaambooni

In seasonPeak

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

Kaambooni's rainy season runs April–May, 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 Kaambooni

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early July, Kaambooni 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 times of year to visit Kaambooni for general outdoor tourist activities run from late June to late October and again from late December to early March, with a peak score in the second week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 9 · 6.8

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
Jan5.9good
Feb5.8good
Mar5.1fair
Apr3.9fair
May4.0fair
Jun5.2fair
Jul5.8good
Aug6.4good
Sep6.6good
Oct5.8good
Nov5.0fair
Dec5.3fair

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Kaambooni for hot-weather activities run from late August to early November and again from late November to early April, with a peak score in the last week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 24 · 8.4

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 Kaambooni, 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.

Kaambooni packs about the same all year — highs hold near 32°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, sun protection, rain gear and a windbreaker.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In March, Kaambooni sees daytime highs around 32°C and nights near 26°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 3 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Kaambooni

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 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
Jan27Warm
Feb27Warm
Mar28Tropical
Apr29Tropical
May28Warm
Jun27Warm
Jul26Warm
Aug25Warm
Sep26Warm
Oct27Warm
Nov28Warm
Dec28Warm

UV index (midday) in Kaambooni 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 Kaambooni peaks around April 9 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 19 at about 10 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeExtremeApr 9UV 15Jun 19UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun10Very high
Jul10Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov12Extreme
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Kaambooni

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 April the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6.5 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)
Jan86.5
Feb8.56.5
Mar86.5
Apr8.56.5
May7.55.5
Jun7.55
Jul7.55.5
Aug85.5
Sep86
Oct86.5
Nov86
Dec86

Air quality in Kaambooni 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 Kaambooni is worst in January — around 16 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.8× the cleanest month (October, 6 µg/m³).

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateGoodJan 1916 µg/m³Oct 186 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan16Moderate
Feb15Moderate
Mar12Good
Apr6Good
May8Good
Jun9Good
Jul10Good
Aug8Good
Sep7Good
Oct6Good
Nov7Good
Dec14Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Kaambooni 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. Kaambooni banks about 6,262 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around March.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan551
Feb505
Mar584
Apr556
May531
Jun484
Jul478
Aug479
Sep481
Oct523
Nov531
Dec560

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.

Kaambooni receives about 5.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 5.0 and 6.7 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 7.6 months, from around Aug 26 to Apr 12. The brightest month is March, averaging about 6.6 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is May, down near 5.1 kWh/m² — roughly 23% less than the March peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 26.7 kWhMay 175.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.3Intense
Feb6.7Intense
Mar6.6Intense
Apr5.8Bright
May5.0Bright
Jun5.1Bright
Jul5.3Bright
Aug5.8Bright
Sep6.1Intense
Oct6.2Intense
Nov6.0Intense
Dec6.1Intense

Where is Kaambooni?

Kaambooni sits at 1.6°S, 41.6°E, 5 m above sea level, in Somalia. The nearest listed city is Lamu, 104 km away.

LamuMasalaniKismayoJamaame

Topography around Kaambooni

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Kaambooni has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 22 m around an average of 3 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 104 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 143 m.

The land around Kaambooni is covered by water (60%) and grassland (24%) within 3 km, water (54%) and shrubs (35%) within 16 km, and water (37%), shrubs (29%) and trees (27%) within 80 km.

3 km
22 m
16 km
104 m
80 km
143 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandbare terrainwatermangroves
Nearby: Lamu 104 km · Masalani 158 km · Hola 174 km · Kismayo 178 km · Jamaame 229 km · Malindi 240 km · Garissa 253 km · Watamu 258 km

Somalia travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 4
Do Not Travel
Power plugs
Type C / G
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 52% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$661
2025
Happiness
4.5 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Road deaths
27.4
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Low
World Bank
English
Very low
EF EPI 399
Religion
Muslim 100%ethnic religionist 0%

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 Kaambooni (-1.6377°, 41.5866°, elevation 5 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. 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. 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).