Climate and average weather in Wete

In Wete, 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: early July to late October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Wete typically varies from 24°C to 28°C, and is rarely below 23°C or above 29°C. March is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Mar
28°
Coldest
Aug
24°
Wettest
May
267 mm
Driest
Feb
14 mm
Rain / yr
1004 mm
156 wet days
Daylight
11.7–12.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
53 m
5.1°S
Clearest
Sep
30% cloud

Wete is city in Tanzania.

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

Wete 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 early July to late October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Wete stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is March, with an average high of 28°C and low of 27°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 24°C and high of 25°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)
Jan2827
Feb2827
Mar2827
Apr2826
May2726
Jun2625
Jul2524
Aug2524
Sep2524
Oct2625
Nov2726
Dec2826

How hot and cold Wete 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, Wete feels like about 33°C (around March 24). About 30 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in March.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan30282727
Feb31282727
Mar32282727
Apr31282626
May28272526
Jun26262525
Jul25252424
Aug25252424
Sep25252424
Oct26262525
Nov28272626
Dec31282626

Average hourly temperature in Wete

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 28°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 24°C.

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

Wete 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
Jan28° / 27°24512.37.4
Feb28° / 27°143.412.27.5
Mar28° / 27°8915.7125.4
Apr28° / 26°25526.911.93.9
May27° / 26°26724.111.84.6
Jun26° / 25°7215.911.75.9
Jul25° / 24°4211.711.76.7
Aug25° / 24°26811.87.6
Sep25° / 24°215.8128.0
Oct26° / 25°6610.512.17.0
Nov27° / 26°7115.112.26.0
Dec28° / 26°5813.612.36.3

Chance of rain

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

Wete gets about 1004 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 3.8 months, from around Mar 13 to Jul 7, peaking in April at about 91% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 2.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 267 mm over about 24 wet days; February is the driest, with 14 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 19 · 91%Feb 2 · 10%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan165
Feb143
Mar5116
Apr8827
May7724
Jun5316
Jul3912
Aug268
Sep206
Oct3411
Nov5015
Dec4314

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Wete collects about 1004 mm of rain across 156 wet days — roughly 84 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 267 mm, while February is the driest at just 14 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 61% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec24148925526772422621667158
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan245
Feb143
Mar8916
Apr25527
May26724
Jun7216
Jul4212
Aug268
Sep216
Oct6611
Nov7115
Dec5814

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Wete, 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 4 and lasts for 5.2 months, ending around January 7. The clearest month is September, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 89% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around January 8 and lasts for 6.8 months, ending around August 3. The cloudiest month is April, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 46% 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 16 · 89%Apr 24 · 51%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7030
Feb7030
Mar6535
Apr5446
May6139
Jun6733
Jul6733
Aug7921
Sep8911
Oct8317
Nov7525
Dec7624

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, Wete 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)
Jan12.36:226:38
Feb12.26:316:41
Mar12.06:306:32
Apr11.96:256:18
May11.86:246:10
Jun11.76:306:13
Jul11.76:356:19
Aug11.86:306:20
Sep12.06:166:15
Oct12.16:036:10
Nov12.25:596:13
Dec12.36:096:26

Sunny days

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

Wete averages about 16 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 9 and 24 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.4 months, from around Aug 3 to Jan 14. The sunniest month is September, with roughly 23 sunny days (brilliant).

The greyest month is April, down near 10 sunny days — about 58% fewer than the September peak.

051015202530JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantSep 1524 daysApr 229 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan17Bright
Feb14Bright
Mar15Mixed
Apr10Mixed
May12Mixed
Jun13Mixed
Jul14Mixed
Aug20Bright
Sep23Brilliant
Oct21Bright
Nov17Bright
Dec19Bright

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.

Wete 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 (%)
Jan08119
Feb08020
Mar05347
Apr05743
May28810
Jun19810
Jul53470
Aug62380
Sep38620
Oct11890
Nov1936
Dec07525

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 Wete is typically breezy, near 21 km/h, and varies a lot with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.9 months, from around Apr 19 to Sep 13. The windiest month is July, averaging about 28 km/h (breezy).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Sep 14 to Dec 27, with November the calmest month at about 14 km/h.

05101520253035JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezebreezywindyJul 5 · 28 km/hNov 22 · 14 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan23breezy
Feb21breezy
Mar16light breeze
Apr20breezy
May25breezy
Jun28breezy
Jul28breezy
Aug24breezy
Sep21breezy
Oct18light breeze
Nov14light breeze
Dec18light breeze

Hazard calendar for Wete

In seasonPeak

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

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

Wete's monsoon runs April–May, 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 Wete

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid July, Wete 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 Wete for general outdoor tourist activities run from mid July 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 14 · 8.1

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
Jan7.4good
Feb7.5good
Mar5.4fair
Apr4.0fair
May4.6fair
Jun5.8good
Jul6.7good
Aug7.6ideal
Sep8.0ideal
Oct7.0good
Nov6.1good
Dec6.3good

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 Wete for hot-weather activities run from early August to late October and again from mid December to mid March, with a peak score in the first week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 3 · 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 Wete, 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.

Wete 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 March, Wete sees daytime highs around 28°C and nights near 27°C. Pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 16 days see rain.

Sea temperature near Wete

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

The sea at the nearest coast (about 14 km away) is warmest in March 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
Jan28Tropical
Feb28Tropical
Mar29Tropical
Apr29Tropical
May28Tropical
Jun27Warm
Jul26Warm
Aug25Warm
Sep26Warm
Oct27Warm
Nov28Warm
Dec28Tropical

UV index (midday) in Wete 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 Wete peaks around March 16 at about 14 (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.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highExtremeMar 16UV 14Jun 18UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun9Very high
Jul10Extreme
Aug10Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov12Extreme
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Wete

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 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)
Jan8.56.5
Feb86.5
Mar8.56.5
Apr86
May7.55.5
Jun74.5
Jul7.55
Aug7.55.5
Sep86
Oct86
Nov86
Dec86

Air quality in Wete 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 Wete is worst in January — around 18 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 2.9× the cleanest month (October, 6 µg/m³).

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

01020JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateGoodJan 1818 µg/m³Oct 236 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan18Moderate
Feb15Moderate
Mar11Good
Apr7Good
May10Good
Jun11Good
Jul12Good
Aug10Good
Sep8Good
Oct6Good
Nov6Good
Dec13Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Wete 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. Wete banks about 5,851 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)
Jan528
Feb479
Mar538
Apr505
May502
Jun465
Jul455
Aug448
Sep443
Oct479
Nov486
Dec523

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.

Wete receives about 6.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.8 and 6.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 7.1 months, from around Aug 27 to Mar 30. The brightest month is February, averaging about 6.8 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is May, down near 4.8 kWh/m² — roughly 29% less than the February peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 176.8 kWhMay 114.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.6Intense
Feb6.9Intense
Mar6.4Intense
Apr5.4Bright
May4.8Bright
Jun5.0Bright
Jul5.1Bright
Aug5.7Bright
Sep6.4Intense
Oct6.6Intense
Nov6.5Intense
Dec6.5Intense

Where is Wete?

Wete sits at 5.1°S, 39.7°E, 53 m above sea level, in Tanzania. The nearest listed city is Chake Chake, 22 km away.

TangaUkundaDiani BeachNungwiMlaloMatuga

Topography around Wete

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Wete has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 82 m around an average of 28 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 91 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 266 m.

The land around Wete is covered by trees (65%) within 3 km, water (41%) and trees (37%) within 16 km, and water (83%) within 80 km.

3 km
82 m
16 km
91 m
80 km
266 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswatermangroves
Nearby: Chake Chake 22 km · Mkoani 36 km · Tanga 70 km · Ukunda 87 km · Diani Beach 88 km · Nungwi 89 km · Mlalo 89 km · Matuga 100 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 Wete (-5.0559°, 39.7294°, elevation 53 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. 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).