Climate and average weather in Dongobesh

In Dongobesh, the weather is warm, wet, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near warm levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around January.

Best: late May to late October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Dongobesh typically varies from 11°C to 25°C, and is rarely below 10°C or above 28°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 Dongobesh for warm-weather activities is from late May to late October.

Hottest
Feb
25°
Coldest
Jul
11°
Wettest
Jan
540 mm
Driest
Sep
4 mm
Rain / yr
2140 mm
125 wet days
Daylight
11.8–12.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,985 m
4.1°S
Clearest
Sep
48% cloud

Dongobesh 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 May to late October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Dongobesh stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 25°C and low of 15°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 11°C and high of 22°C.

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

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2515
Feb2515
Mar2516
Apr2315
May2214
Jun2212
Jul2211
Aug2212
Sep2413
Oct2514
Nov2515
Dec2515

Average hourly temperature in Dongobesh

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 25°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 11°C.

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

Dongobesh 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
Jan25° / 15°54016.612.25.8
Feb25° / 15°33013.712.15.9
Mar25° / 16°37117.6125.6
Apr23° / 15°22421.211.95.0
May22° / 14°6411.411.86.4
Jun22° / 12°122.611.87.5
Jul22° / 11°51.311.87.8
Aug22° / 12°61.411.98.0
Sep24° / 13°41.2128.5
Oct25° / 14°315.712.17.5
Nov25° / 15°13813.912.26.2
Dec25° / 15°41618.212.25.6

Chance of rain

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

Dongobesh gets about 2140 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 6.4 months, from around Nov 4 to May 16, peaking in April at about 74% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Sep 8.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 540 mm over about 17 wet days; September is the driest, with 4 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 7 · 74%Sep 8 · 3%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan5317
Feb5014
Mar5718
Apr6921
May3711
Jun93
Jul41
Aug51
Sep51
Oct196
Nov4614
Dec5818

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Dongobesh collects about 2140 mm of rain across 125 wet days — roughly 178 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 540 mm, while September is the driest at just 4 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 62% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450500550600JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec540330371224641256431138416
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan54017
Feb33014
Mar37118
Apr22421
May6411
Jun123
Jul51
Aug61
Sep41
Oct316
Nov13814
Dec41618

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Dongobesh, 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 July 4 and lasts for 5.2 months, ending around December 8. The clearest month is September, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 65% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around December 9 and lasts for 5.5 months, ending around May 25. The cloudiest month is April, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 64% 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 21 · 68%Apr 27 · 34%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3961
Feb4159
Mar4357
Apr3664
May4159
Jun4258
Jul4852
Aug5248
Sep6535
Oct5644
Nov4951
Dec4456

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

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan12.26:416:54
Feb12.16:496:57
Mar12.06:476:49
Apr11.96:416:36
May11.86:406:29
Jun11.86:466:32
Jul11.86:516:38
Aug11.96:476:39
Sep12.06:336:32
Oct12.16:216:26
Nov12.26:186:29
Dec12.26:286:42

Sunny days

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

Dongobesh averages about 7 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 3 and 12 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.2 months, from around Aug 7 to Nov 10. The sunniest month is September, with roughly 11 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is May, down near 5 sunny days — about 56% fewer than the September peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedSep 2112 daysMay 23 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan7Gloomy
Feb7Gloomy
Mar7Gloomy
Apr4Gloomy
May5Gloomy
Jun6Gloomy
Jul7Gloomy
Aug9Mixed
Sep11Mixed
Oct10Mixed
Nov7Gloomy
Dec7Gloomy

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 5.3 months, from around November 28 to May 6. The muggiest month is April, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 30% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around May 7 to November 27, and June is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJun 13 · 100%Apr 3 · 58%humiddrycomfortablehumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan324722
Feb354421
Mar215029
Apr66430
May37586
Jun88120
Jul9910
Aug9910
Sep9820
Oct82181
Nov43507
Dec275419

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 Dongobesh is typically calm, near 10 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 7.3 months, from around Apr 17 to Nov 23. The windiest month is October, averaging about 13 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Nov 24 to Apr 16, with January the calmest month at about 7 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeOct 5 · 13 km/hJan 23 · 7 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar8calm
Apr10calm
May11calm
Jun11calm
Jul11calm
Aug12light breeze
Sep13light breeze
Oct13light breeze
Nov11calm
Dec8calm

Hazard calendar for Dongobesh

In seasonPeak

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

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

Dongobesh's monsoon runs December–March, when most of the year's rain falls.

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

Best time to visit Dongobesh

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late May, Dongobesh 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 Dongobesh for general outdoor tourist activities is from late May to late October, with a peak score in the third week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 15 · 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
Jan5.8good
Feb5.9good
Mar5.6good
Apr5.1fair
May6.4good
Jun7.5ideal
Jul7.8ideal
Aug8.0ideal
Sep8.5ideal
Oct7.5ideal
Nov6.2good
Dec5.6good

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 Dongobesh for hot-weather activities is from mid August to early November, with a peak score in the last week of September.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 22 · 7.4

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 Dongobesh, 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.

Dongobesh packs about the same all year — highs hold near 25°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Dongobesh sees daytime highs around 25°C and nights near 15°C. Pack rain gear and sun protection. Worth having: light clothes. About 14 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Dongobesh 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 Dongobesh peaks around March 13 at about 16 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 17 at about 10 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 13UV 16Jun 17UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan15Extreme
Feb16Extreme
Mar16Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun10Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep14Extreme
Oct15Extreme
Nov14Extreme
Dec13Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Dongobesh

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
May7.55.5
Jun7.55
Jul7.55.5
Aug86
Sep86.5
Oct86.5
Nov86.5
Dec86
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Dongobesh 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. Dongobesh banks about 3,223 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around February.

01,0002,0003,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan312
Feb291
Mar320
Apr279
May247
Jun206
Jul195
Aug217
Sep248
Oct294
Nov301
Dec311

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.

Dongobesh receives about 6.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 5.2 and 6.9 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 7.1 months, from around Aug 23 to Mar 26. The brightest month is September, averaging about 6.6 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is May, down near 5.3 kWh/m² — roughly 21% less than the September peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseSep 286.9 kWhMay 135.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.3Intense
Feb6.7Intense
Mar6.3Intense
Apr5.6Bright
May5.2Bright
Jun5.3Bright
Jul5.5Bright
Aug5.9Bright
Sep6.7Intense
Oct6.8Intense
Nov6.3Intense
Dec6.1Intense

Where is Dongobesh?

Dongobesh sits at 4.1°S, 35.4°E, 1,985 m above sea level, in Tanzania. The nearest listed city is Bashanet, 19 km away.

Topography around Dongobesh

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Dongobesh has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 325 m around an average of 2,016 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 644 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,403 m.

The land around Dongobesh is covered by cropland (53%), shrubs (21%) and grassland (21%) within 3 km, cropland (35%), shrubs (25%) and trees (20%) within 16 km, and cropland (33%) and shrubs (28%) within 80 km.

3 km
325 m
16 km
644 m
80 km
2,403 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Bashanet 19 km · Dareda 25 km · Mbulu 29 km · Magugu 43 km · Babati 44 km · Nangwa 45 km · Basotu 47 km · Katesh 51 km

Tanzania travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 3
Reconsider Travel
Power plugs
Type D / G
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 29% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$1,319
2025
Happiness
3.9 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
31%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
3.7
per 100k, 2020
Road deaths
31.1
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Lower middle
World Bank
English
Low
EF EPI 479
Religion
Christian 63%Muslim 34%folk religion 1%

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 Dongobesh (-4.0667°, 35.3833°, elevation 1,985 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). 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).