Mabote, Lesotho Climate
The warmest month is January, with an average high of 28°C; the coldest is July, with an average low of 1°C. A normal year brings 685 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 24
- Normal high
- 23°C
- Normal low
- 7°C
- Reanalysis high
- 30°Cin 1998
- Reanalysis low
- 2°Cin 2012
- Chance of a wet day
- 16%
- Daylight
- 12 h 10 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 | 28°C | 14°C | 39°C (2016) | 2°C (2001) | 105 mm | 18.6 |
| February | 27°C | 13°C | 35°C (2016) | 3°C (1994) | 90 mm | 14.1 |
| March | 25°C | 12°C | 34°C (1999) | 1°C (2007) | 78 mm | 12.4 |
| April | 22°C | 8°C | 30°C (1999) | -5°C (2007) | 57 mm | 9.0 |
| May | 18°C | 4°C | 26°C (2014) | -8°C (1997) | 25 mm | 3.1 |
| June | 15°C | 1°C | 22°C (2013) | -6°C (2009) | 15 mm | 3.0 |
| July | 15°C | 1°C | 22°C (2005) | -6°C (2000) | 9 mm | 3.1 |
| August | 18°C | 2°C | 27°C (2015) | -6°C (2003) | 19 mm | 3.1 |
| September | 23°C | 6°C | 31°C (2007) | -5°C (2008) | 21 mm | 3.0 |
| October | 25°C | 9°C | 34°C (2020) | -2°C (2016) | 74 mm | 9.3 |
| November | 26°C | 10°C | 35°C (2018) | -2°C (2017) | 90 mm | 12.0 |
| December | 28°C | 13°C | 37°C (2015) | 1°C (1995) | 102 mm | 15.5 |
| Year | 22°C | 8°C | 685 mm | 106 |
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.
685 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 Mabote.
Days with a mean dew point of 18°C or more are rare here in every month.
| Month | Dew point | Humidity | Dry | Comfortable | Humid | Muggy | Oppressive | Miserable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 11°C | 57% | 75% | 25% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| February | 11°C | 60% | 72% | 27% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| March | 9°C | 60% | 93% | 7% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| April | 5°C | 60% | 99% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| May | 1°C | 57% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| June | -2°C | 56% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| July | -3°C | 53% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| August | -3°C | 48% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| September | -1°C | 41% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| October | 3°C | 48% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| November | 6°C | 52% | 96% | 4% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| December | 9°C | 55% | 89% | 11% | 0% | 0% | 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 July, with the sky 25 percent covered on average; the cloudiest is December, at 57 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 September, averaging 14.0 km/h at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.
Daylight and sunshine
The longest day is Dec 21, with 14 h 02 min of daylight; the shortest is Jun 17, with 10 h 16 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 Mabote 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 2026-09-24. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.