Climate and average weather in Korogwe

In Korogwe, the summers are muggy, hot, showery, and partly cloudy and the winters are warm and partly cloudy.

Best: mid May to late October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Korogwe typically varies from 17°C to 32°C, and is rarely below 16°C or above 34°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 Korogwe for warm-weather activities is from mid May to late October.

Hottest
Feb
32°
Coldest
Jul
17°
Wettest
Apr
222 mm
Driest
Jul
48 mm
Rain / yr
1179 mm
201 wet days
Daylight
11.7–12.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
309 m
5.2°S
Clearest
Sep
53% cloud

Korogwe is town in Korogwe District, Tanga Region, Tanzania.

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

Korogwe 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 late October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Korogwe stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 32°C and low of 22°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 17°C and high of 26°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 10°C) in February.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3222
Feb3222
Mar3122
Apr2822
May2720
Jun2618
Jul2617
Aug2618
Sep2718
Oct2820
Nov2921
Dec3122

How hot and cold Korogwe 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, Korogwe feels like about 35°C (around February 26). About 138 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in February.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan35322222
Feb35322222
Mar34312222
Apr31282222
May27272020
Jun26261818
Jul26261717
Aug26261818
Sep27271818
Oct29282020
Nov32292121
Dec34312222

Average hourly temperature in Korogwe

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 32°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 17°C.

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

Korogwe 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
Jan32° / 22°6810.312.34.2
Feb32° / 22°618.912.24.1
Mar31° / 22°12920.1123.5
Apr28° / 22°22226.811.93.6
May27° / 20°18922.111.84.8
Jun26° / 18°5614.611.75.9
Jul26° / 17°4814.211.76.0
Aug26° / 18°5716.511.85.7
Sep27° / 18°5214.9125.9
Oct28° / 20°10416.312.15.4
Nov29° / 21°10018.912.24.3
Dec31° / 22°9416.912.34.0

Chance of rain

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

Korogwe gets about 1179 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 2.7 months, from around Mar 10 to May 30, peaking in April at about 90% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 31.

April is the wettest month by volume, with 222 mm over about 27 wet days; July is the driest, with 48 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 13 · 90%Jan 31 · 27%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3310
Feb349
Mar6420
Apr8827
May7022
Jun4915
Jul4814
Aug5317
Sep5015
Oct5316
Nov6319
Dec5417

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Korogwe collects about 1179 mm of rain across 201 wet days — roughly 98 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. April is the wettest month with 222 mm, while July is the driest at just 48 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 46% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec68611292221895648575210410094
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan6810
Feb619
Mar12920
Apr22227
May18922
Jun5615
Jul4814
Aug5717
Sep5215
Oct10416
Nov10019
Dec9417

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Korogwe, 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 10 and lasts for 6.8 months, ending around March 5. The clearest month is September, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 67% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 6 and lasts for 5.2 months, ending around August 9. The cloudiest month is April, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 69% 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 · 69%Apr 28 · 29%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5743
Feb5644
Mar4654
Apr3169
May4258
Jun4852
Jul4951
Aug5644
Sep6733
Oct6535
Nov5644
Dec6040

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, Korogwe 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)
Jan12.36:276:43
Feb12.26:366:46
Mar12.06:356:37
Apr11.96:306:23
May11.86:296:15
Jun11.76:356:17
Jul11.76:406:24
Aug11.86:356:25
Sep12.06:216:20
Oct12.16:086:15
Nov12.26:046:18
Dec12.36:136:31

Sunny days

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

Korogwe averages about 7 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 11 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.8 months, from around Nov 21 to Mar 15. The sunniest month is January, with roughly 11 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is April, down near 2 sunny days — about 77% fewer than the January peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedJan 2011 daysApr 132 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan11Mixed
Feb9Mixed
Mar6Gloomy
Apr2Gloomy
May5Gloomy
Jun5Gloomy
Jul4Gloomy
Aug5Gloomy
Sep7Gloomy
Oct8Gloomy
Nov7Gloomy
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.

Korogwe 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 July, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 4% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmuggyoppressivehumid
Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan0047530
Feb0147520
Mar0020791
Apr0012871
May0459380
Jun3276730
Jul4564100
Aug1574100
Sep0396010
Oct01371160
Nov0142570
Dec0031690

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 Korogwe is steady company: average speeds sit near 7 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeJan 3 · 7 km/hApr 2 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar6calm
Apr6calm
May6calm
Jun6calm
Jul7calm
Aug6calm
Sep7calm
Oct7calm
Nov6calm
Dec7calm

Hazard calendar for Korogwe

In seasonPeak

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

Korogwe's rainy season runs March–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 Korogwe

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late October, Korogwe 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 Korogwe for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid May to late October, with a peak score in the second week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 11 · 6.0

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
Jan4.2fair
Feb4.0fair
Mar3.5fair
Apr3.6fair
May4.8fair
Jun5.9good
Jul5.9good
Aug5.8good
Sep5.8good
Oct5.4fair
Nov4.4fair
Dec4.0fair

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 Korogwe for hot-weather activities is from late May to mid March, with a peak score in the last week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 31 · 6.7

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 Korogwe, 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 February (highs near 32°C), the essentials are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. In the cold season around July (highs near 26°C), pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Korogwe sees daytime highs around 32°C and nights near 22°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 9 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Korogwe 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 Korogwe peaks around March 18 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 18 at about 10 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeExtremeMar 18UV 15Jun 18UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun10Very high
Jul11Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov13Extreme
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Korogwe

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 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
Apr86.5
May7.55.5
Jun75
Jul7.55.5
Aug7.55.5
Sep86
Oct86.5
Nov86
Dec86

Air quality in Korogwe 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 Korogwe is worst in February — around 17 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.8× the cleanest month (November, 9 µg/m³).

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateGoodModerateGoodModerateFeb 917 µg/m³Nov 99 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan17Moderate
Feb17Moderate
Mar13Moderate
Apr10Good
May11Good
Jun14Moderate
Jul16Moderate
Aug15Moderate
Sep13Moderate
Oct9Good
Nov9Good
Dec13Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Korogwe 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. Korogwe banks about 5,230 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around February.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan523
Feb478
Mar516
Apr451
May417
Jun364
Jul356
Aug364
Sep378
Oct428
Nov451
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.

Korogwe receives about 5.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.1 and 6.4 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around Sep 15 to Mar 26. The brightest month is February, averaging about 6.4 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is May, down near 4.1 kWh/m² — roughly 35% less than the February peak.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 46.4 kWhMay 74.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.2Intense
Feb6.4Intense
Mar5.7Bright
Apr4.4Bright
May4.1Bright
Jun4.5Bright
Jul4.5Bright
Aug4.8Bright
Sep5.3Bright
Oct5.4Bright
Nov5.5Bright
Dec5.9Bright

Where is Korogwe?

Korogwe sits at 5.2°S, 38.5°E, 309 m above sea level, in Tanzania. The nearest listed city is Maramba, 18 km away.

Topography around Korogwe

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Korogwe has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 298 m around an average of 321 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,183 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,284 m.

The land around Korogwe is covered by grassland (39%) and trees (38%) within 3 km, trees (47%) and grassland (33%) within 16 km, and trees (45%) and shrubs (28%) within 80 km.

3 km
298 m
16 km
1,183 m
80 km
2,284 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Maramba 18 km · Muheza 33 km · Lushoto 46 km · Matui 47 km · Mazinde 49 km · Mlalo 55 km · Chanika 60 km · Handeni 61 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 Korogwe (-5.15°, 38.4833°, elevation 309 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).