Climate and average weather in Magu

In Magu, 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 November.

Best: mid May to early September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Magu typically varies from 20°C to 27°C, and is rarely below 18°C or above 30°C. September is the hottest month of the year, while December is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Magu for warm-weather activities is from mid May to early September.

Hottest
Sep
27°
Coldest
Dec
20°
Wettest
Nov
197 mm
Driest
Jul
11 mm
Rain / yr
1299 mm
171 wet days
Daylight
11.9–12.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,154 m
2.6°S
Clearest
Jul
50% cloud

Magu 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 September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Magu stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is September, with an average high of 27°C and low of 21°C; the coolest is December, with an average low of 20°C and high of 26°C.

Days typically run about 6°C warmer than nights year-round.

15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2621
Feb2721
Mar2721
Apr2621
May2721
Jun2720
Jul2720
Aug2720
Sep2721
Oct2721
Nov2621
Dec2620

Average hourly temperature in Magu

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 September afternoons, near 27°C, and coldest before dawn in December, near 20°C.

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

Magu 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
Jan26° / 21°13518.912.15.3
Feb27° / 21°10014.212.15.6
Mar27° / 21°15818125.3
Apr26° / 21°16719.211.95.0
May27° / 21°7110.811.96.4
Jun27° / 20°265.611.97.2
Jul27° / 20°112.111.97.8
Aug27° / 20°356.611.97.1
Sep27° / 21°6411.7126.1
Oct27° / 21°14519.412.15.0
Nov26° / 21°19722.112.14.6
Dec26° / 20°18922.312.14.8

Chance of rain

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

Magu gets about 1299 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 7.3 months, from around Sep 27 to May 7, peaking in December at about 75% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 12.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 197 mm over about 22 wet days; July is the driest, with 11 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetDec 3 · 75%Jul 12 · 6%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan6019
Feb5114
Mar5818
Apr6419
May3511
Jun186
Jul82
Aug227
Sep4012
Oct6219
Nov7322
Dec7222

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Magu collects about 1299 mm of rain across 171 wet days — roughly 108 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 197 mm, while July is the driest at just 11 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 43% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1351001581677126113564145197189
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan13519
Feb10014
Mar15818
Apr16719
May7111
Jun266
Jul112
Aug357
Sep6412
Oct14519
Nov19722
Dec18922

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Magu, 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 May 11 and lasts for 4.6 months, ending around September 27. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 62% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 28 and lasts for 7.4 months, ending around May 10. The cloudiest month is November, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 73% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 17 · 64%Nov 4 · 23%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4159
Feb4357
Mar4159
Apr3070
May5149
Jun5644
Jul6238
Aug6238
Sep5347
Oct3070
Nov2773
Dec3763

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, Magu 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)
Jan12.16:517:00
Feb12.16:587:03
Mar12.06:556:56
Apr11.96:486:45
May11.96:466:39
Jun11.96:516:42
Jul11.96:566:48
Aug11.96:536:48
Sep12.06:416:40
Oct12.16:306:33
Nov12.16:286:35
Dec12.16:386:47

Sunny days

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

Magu averages about 8 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 3 and 14 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.5 months, from around May 12 to Sep 26. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 11 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is November, down near 3 sunny days — about 71% fewer than the June peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightJun 214 daysNov 63 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan7Gloomy
Feb7Gloomy
Mar7Gloomy
Apr4Gloomy
May10Mixed
Jun11Mixed
Jul13Mixed
Aug13Mixed
Sep10Mixed
Oct5Gloomy
Nov3Gloomy
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 Magu, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 7.4 months, from around October 5 to May 18. The muggiest month is January, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 98% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around May 19 to October 4, and July is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 86% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 11 · 89%Jan 11 · 1%muggycomfortablehumiddryhumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan025543
Feb075043
Mar054253
Apr044353
May2235223
Jun2148239
Jul5036131
Aug3734245
Sep17333316
Oct4164338
Nov034750
Dec025048

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 Magu is typically calm, near 10 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.8 months, from around May 15 to Oct 8. The windiest month is July, averaging about 12 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Oct 9 to May 14, with December the calmest month at about 8 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJul 12 · 13 km/hDec 12 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan9calm
Feb9calm
Mar9calm
Apr9calm
May10calm
Jun11calm
Jul12light breeze
Aug12calm
Sep10calm
Oct10calm
Nov9calm
Dec8calm

Hazard calendar for Magu

In seasonPeak

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

Magu's rainy season runs October–April, 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 Magu

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 13 · 7.9

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
Jan5.3fair
Feb5.6good
Mar5.3fair
Apr5.0fair
May6.4good
Jun7.2good
Jul7.8ideal
Aug7.1good
Sep6.1good
Oct5.0fair
Nov4.6fair
Dec4.8fair

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 Magu for hot-weather activities is from mid May to late September, with a peak score in the second week of July.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 13 · 8.0

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 Magu, 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.

Magu packs about the same all year — highs hold near 27°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 September, Magu sees daytime highs around 27°C and nights near 21°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 12 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Magu 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 Magu peaks around March 15 at about 16 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 17 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 15UV 16Jun 17UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar16Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun10Very high
Jul11Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct14Extreme
Nov13Extreme
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Magu

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
Feb8.57
Mar8.57
Apr8.56.5
May7.56
Jun7.55
Jul7.55.5
Aug7.55.5
Sep86
Oct86.5
Nov86.5
Dec86

Air quality in Magu 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 Magu is worst in July — around 20 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.9× the cleanest month (November, 10 µg/m³).

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

0102030JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateGoodModerateGoodJul 1319 µg/m³Nov 1410 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan18Moderate
Feb16Moderate
Mar13Moderate
Apr11Good
May12Good
Jun18Moderate
Jul20Moderate
Aug16Moderate
Sep15Moderate
Oct11Good
Nov10Good
Dec12Good
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Magu 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. Magu banks about 4,946 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around September.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan411
Feb390
Mar431
Apr403
May423
Jun408
Jul413
Aug422
Sep423
Oct427
Nov394
Dec402

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.

Magu receives about 6.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 5.7 and 6.5 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 256.5 kWhNov 185.7 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.1Intense
Feb6.5Intense
Mar6.3Intense
Apr5.8Bright
May5.8Bright
Jun5.7Bright
Jul5.9Bright
Aug6.1Intense
Sep6.4Intense
Oct6.0Intense
Nov5.7Bright
Dec5.8Bright

Where is Magu?

Magu sits at 2.6°S, 33.4°E, 1,154 m above sea level, in Tanzania. The nearest listed city is Kihangara, 11 km away.

Topography around Magu

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Magu has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 107 m around an average of 1,151 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 195 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 483 m.

The land around Magu is covered by cropland (57%) within 3 km, cropland (72%) within 16 km, and cropland (63%) and water (23%) within 80 km.

3 km
107 m
16 km
195 m
80 km
483 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Kihangara 11 km · Ngudu 44 km · Kisesa 46 km · Kibara 49 km · Misungwi 50 km · Usagara 51 km · Nyakabindi 60 km · Maswa 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 Magu (-2.5907°, 33.4462°, elevation 1,154 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).