Climate and average weather in Moyo

In Moyo, the summers are sweltering, fairly dry, and partly cloudy and the winters are hot and partly cloudy.

Best: mid May to mid August

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Moyo typically varies from 20°C to 35°C, and is rarely below 19°C or above 37°C. February is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Moyo for warm-weather activities are from mid May to mid August and mid November to late December.

Hottest
Feb
35°
Coldest
Jul
20°
Wettest
Oct
203 mm
Driest
Jan
9 mm
Rain / yr
1315 mm
187 wet days
Daylight
11.8–12.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
973 m
3.7°N
Clearest
Jan
52% cloud

Moyo is human settlement.

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

Moyo 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 mid August.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Moyo stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 35°C and low of 23°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 20°C and high of 28°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 12°C) in February.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3322
Feb3523
Mar3423
Apr3222
May3022
Jun2921
Jul2820
Aug2820
Sep2920
Oct2921
Nov3021
Dec3221

How hot and cold Moyo 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, Moyo feels like about 35°C (around February 16). About 153 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in February.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan33332222
Feb35352323
Mar34342323
Apr33322222
May32302222
Jun31292121
Jul30282020
Aug30282020
Sep31292020
Oct31292121
Nov32302121
Dec32322121

Average hourly temperature in Moyo

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 35°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 20°C.

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

Moyo 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
Jan33° / 22°91.811.84.0
Feb35° / 23°133.611.93.0
Mar34° / 23°6210.9122.9
Apr32° / 22°14618.712.13.2
May30° / 22°13619.412.23.9
Jun29° / 21°12319.612.24.2
Jul28° / 20°14622.212.24.2
Aug28° / 20°17424.912.13.8
Sep29° / 20°14720.8124.0
Oct29° / 21°20323.411.93.7
Nov30° / 21°13216.511.84.1
Dec32° / 21°254.911.84.7

Chance of rain

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

Moyo gets about 1315 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 7.7 months, from around Mar 30 to Nov 18, peaking in August at about 81% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 11.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 203 mm over about 23 wet days; January is the driest, with 9 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 16 · 81%Jan 11 · 5%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan62
Feb124
Mar3611
Apr6219
May6219
Jun6520
Jul7222
Aug8025
Sep7021
Oct7423
Nov5517
Dec175

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Moyo collects about 1315 mm of rain across 187 wet days — roughly 110 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 203 mm, while January is the driest at just 9 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 40% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec9136214613612314617414720313225
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan92
Feb134
Mar6211
Apr14619
May13619
Jun12320
Jul14622
Aug17425
Sep14721
Oct20323
Nov13217
Dec255

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Moyo, 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 November 20 and lasts for 3.7 months, ending around March 12. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 62% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 13 and lasts for 2.3 months, ending around May 21. The cloudiest month is April, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 70% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecDec 21 · 66%Apr 28 · 26%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5842
Feb5545
Mar4258
Apr3070
May3862
Jun4357
Jul4258
Aug4159
Sep4456
Oct3070
Nov4159
Dec6238

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, Moyo 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)
Jan11.87:086:57
Feb11.97:117:04
Mar12.07:047:02
Apr12.16:516:56
May12.26:446:54
Jun12.26:477:00
Jul12.26:537:05
Aug12.16:547:01
Sep12.06:476:48
Oct11.96:416:36
Nov11.86:436:33
Dec11.86:566:43

Sunny days

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

Moyo 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 13 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.8 months, from around Nov 18 to Mar 13. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 12 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is April, down near 4 sunny days — about 67% fewer than the December peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedDec 2613 daysApr 273 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan12Mixed
Feb9Mixed
Mar7Gloomy
Apr4Gloomy
May6Gloomy
Jun6Gloomy
Jul5Gloomy
Aug5Gloomy
Sep6Gloomy
Oct4Gloomy
Nov6Gloomy
Dec12Mixed

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 8.4 months, from around March 24 to December 5. The muggiest month is April, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 97% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around December 6 to March 23, and February is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 68% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 7 · 75%Apr 28 · 0%oppressivemuggycomfortablehumiddrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan47262070
Feb452322100
Mar131627431
Apr1287613
May0017821
Jun001926
Jul004951
Aug000972
Sep001945
Oct002917
Nov0315792
Dec162531290

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 Moyo is typically calm, near 5 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.3 months, from around Nov 29 to May 9. The windiest month is February, averaging about 7 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around May 10 to Nov 28, with July the calmest month at about 4 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeFeb 5 · 7 km/hJul 29 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar7calm
Apr6calm
May5calm
Jun4calm
Jul4calm
Aug4calm
Sep4calm
Oct4calm
Nov5calm
Dec6calm

Hazard calendar for Moyo

In seasonPeak

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

Moyo's rainy season runs April–November, 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 Moyo

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late May, Moyo 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 Moyo for general outdoor tourist activities run from mid May to mid August and again from mid November to late January, with a peak score in the second week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 14 · 4.8

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
Jan3.9fair
Feb3.1poor
Mar2.9poor
Apr3.2poor
May3.9fair
Jun4.1fair
Jul4.2fair
Aug3.8fair
Sep4.0fair
Oct3.7fair
Nov4.1fair
Dec4.7fair

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 Moyo for hot-weather activities is from late November to late February, with a peak score in the last week of December.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 27 · 7.5

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 Moyo, 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 35°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around July (highs near 28°C), pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Moyo sees daytime highs around 35°C and nights near 23°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 4 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Moyo 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 Moyo peaks around March 16 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 15 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 highMar 16UV 15Dec 15UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun10Extreme
Jul10Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec10Very high

Average hourly UV index in Moyo

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)
Jan7.55.5
Feb86
Mar8.56.5
Apr86.5
May86
Jun7.55.5
Jul7.55.5
Aug86
Sep86
Oct86
Nov7.55
Dec75

Air quality in Moyo 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 Moyo is worst in January — around 107 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 7.7× the cleanest month (April, 14 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyModerateUnhealthyJan 13103 µg/m³Apr 2314 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan107Unhealthy
Feb43Poor
Mar21Moderate
Apr14Moderate
May14Moderate
Jun22Moderate
Jul23Moderate
Aug19Moderate
Sep16Moderate
Oct15Moderate
Nov24Moderate
Dec81Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Moyo 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. Moyo banks about 5,853 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around February.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan548
Feb524
Mar572
Apr506
May491
Jun450
Jul442
Aug440
Sep441
Oct465
Nov464
Dec511

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.

Moyo receives about 5.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 5.2 and 6.2 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 146.2 kWhJul 245.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.0Bright
Feb6.2Intense
Mar6.1Intense
Apr5.8Bright
May5.7Bright
Jun5.2Bright
Jul5.2Bright
Aug5.5Bright
Sep5.8Bright
Oct5.6Bright
Nov5.7Bright
Dec5.7Bright

Where is Moyo?

Moyo sits at 3.7°N, 31.7°E, 973 m above sea level, in Uganda. The nearest listed city is Adjumani, 32 km away.

YumbePajokKobokoAruaGuluAnakaTorit

Topography around Moyo

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Moyo has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 141 m around an average of 954 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 934 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,049 m.

The land around Moyo is covered by shrubs (43%) and grassland (36%) within 3 km, shrubs (37%), trees (31%) and grassland (29%) within 16 km, and grassland (52%) and shrubs (29%) within 80 km.

3 km
141 m
16 km
934 m
80 km
1,049 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Adjumani 32 km · Yumbe 57 km · Pajok 87 km · Koboko 89 km · Arua 115 km · Gulu 117 km · Anaka 120 km · Torit 126 km

Uganda travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 4
Do Not Travel
Power plugs
Type G
240 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 35% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$1,206
2025
Happiness
4.5 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
18%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
9
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
29.4
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Low
World Bank
English
Moderate
EF EPI 518
Religion
Protestant 45%Roman Catholic 39%Muslim 14%other 2%

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 Moyo (3.6609°, 31.7247°, elevation 973 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).