Selebi-Phikwe, Botswana Climate
The warmest month is October, with an average high of 34°C; the coldest is July, with an average low of 9°C. A normal year brings 433 mm of precipitation.
Temperature through the year
The normal daily high and low. The line marks today.
- Normal low
- Normal high
- Reanalysis extreme high
- Reanalysis extreme low
Normals for Sep 25
- Normal high
- 33°C
- Normal low
- 16°C
- Reanalysis high
- 40°Cin 2005
- Reanalysis low
- 12°Cin 2011
- Chance of a wet day
- 6%
- Daylight
- 12 h 11 min
Month by month
Averages for 1991-2020. Wet days have at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis. Each month links to its own page.
| Month | Avg high | Avg low | Warmest | Coldest | Precipitation | Wet days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 33°C | 20°C | 43°C (2016) | 13°C (1994) | 90 mm | 15.5 |
| February | 33°C | 20°C | 44°C (1992) | 14°C (2014) | 76 mm | 11.3 |
| March | 32°C | 19°C | 41°C (2007) | 12°C (1991) | 50 mm | 9.3 |
| April | 30°C | 16°C | 39°C (1998) | 7°C (1997) | 18 mm | 3.0 |
| May | 28°C | 12°C | 37°C (1998) | 2°C (2007) | 6 mm | 0.0 |
| June | 25°C | 9°C | 33°C (2013) | 2°C (1994) | 3 mm | 0.0 |
| July | 25°C | 9°C | 34°C (2002) | 2°C (1996) | 3 mm | 0.0 |
| August | 28°C | 11°C | 37°C (2008) | 3°C (2012) | 0 mm | 0.0 |
| September | 32°C | 15°C | 41°C (2005) | 6°C (2013) | 6 mm | 0.0 |
| October | 34°C | 18°C | 43°C (2011) | 10°C (1994) | 25 mm | 6.2 |
| November | 34°C | 19°C | 44°C (2015) | 11°C (2002) | 69 mm | 12.0 |
| December | 34°C | 20°C | 42°C (2016) | 11°C (1994) | 87 mm | 15.5 |
| Year | 31°C | 16°C | 433 mm | 73 |
Precipitation
Rain and melted snow together. The chance of a wet day is the share of days with at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis.
433 mm in a normal year, most in January.
Chance of a wet day
- Chance of a wet day
Humidity and comfort
NASA POWER reanalysis, 1991-2020, for the grid cell around Selebi-Phikwe.
The muggiest month is January, when 20 percent of days are muggy or worse, with a mean dew point of 18°C or more.
| Month | Dew point | Humidity | Dry | Comfortable | Humid | Muggy | Oppressive | Miserable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 16°C | 56% | 17% | 29% | 34% | 19% | 1% | 0% |
| February | 16°C | 57% | 19% | 27% | 34% | 19% | 1% | 0% |
| March | 14°C | 56% | 29% | 35% | 27% | 9% | 0% | 0% |
| April | 11°C | 52% | 67% | 26% | 6% | 1% | 0% | 0% |
| May | 6°C | 46% | 97% | 3% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| June | 3°C | 47% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| July | 2°C | 46% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| August | 2°C | 39% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| September | 4°C | 36% | 98% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| October | 9°C | 39% | 83% | 15% | 2% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| November | 12°C | 47% | 48% | 27% | 22% | 3% | 0% | 0% |
| December | 15°C | 53% | 21% | 30% | 35% | 14% | 0% | 0% |
Comfort is judged by the day's mean dew point: dry below 13°C, comfortable to 16°C, humid to 18°C, muggy to 21°C, oppressive to 24°C, miserable above.
Clouds
Average share of the sky covered, from satellite (CERES and GEWEX SRB) by way of NASA POWER, 1991-2020.
The clearest month is August, with the sky 21 percent covered on average; the cloudiest is December, at 63 percent.
Wind
The mean wind speed over the whole day, from the MERRA-2 reanalysis by way of NASA POWER. Gusts run well above it.
The windiest month is October, averaging 19.4 km/h at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.
Daylight and sunshine
The longest day is Dec 14, with 13 h 29 min of daylight; the shortest is Jun 16, with 10 h 47 min.
- Day length
Solar energy
Average daily sunshine reaching the ground on a flat surface, in kilowatt-hours per square meter, clouds included.
Month pages
The weather in Selebi-Phikwe in each month, day by day.
What this means
A normal is the average of the thirty years 1991 to 2020, the period the World Meteorological Organization and NOAA use for comparison. It is an average, not a forecast: most days depart from it, and some by a long way.
Where no station record is within reach, the extremes shown are the highest and lowest the reanalysis produced for the date in 1991-2020, not measured records.
Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine come from a reanalysis: a weather model run over the past with every observation fed in, averaged over a grid cell about 50 km across. It is consistent everywhere on Earth; it smooths local detail such as a lake shore or a valley.
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Sources
Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine, and temperature and precipitation: NASA POWER (MERRA-2, CERES and GEWEX SRB), 1991-2020. The data was obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project funded through the NASA Earth Science Division: POWER Daily API v2, accessed 2026-09-25. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.