Ntcheu, Malawi Climate
The warmest month is October, with an average high of 31°C; the coldest is July, with an average low of 9°C. A normal year brings 1165 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
- 29°C
- Normal low
- 14°C
- Reanalysis high
- 33°Cin 2008
- Reanalysis low
- 10°Cin 2014
- Chance of a wet day
- 6%
- Daylight
- 12 h 09 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 | 26°C | 18°C | 32°C (2010) | 13°C (2003) | 319 mm | 27.9 |
| February | 26°C | 17°C | 35°C (1992) | 12°C (1995) | 215 mm | 22.6 |
| March | 25°C | 17°C | 30°C (1992) | 11°C (2009) | 161 mm | 21.7 |
| April | 24°C | 14°C | 31°C (1998) | 8°C (1995) | 60 mm | 12.0 |
| May | 23°C | 12°C | 33°C (1998) | 7°C (1997) | 16 mm | 6.2 |
| June | 21°C | 10°C | 29°C (1998) | 4°C (1999) | 12 mm | 3.0 |
| July | 21°C | 9°C | 29°C (1994) | 4°C (2012) | 19 mm | 3.1 |
| August | 24°C | 11°C | 32°C (2007) | 5°C (1996) | 6 mm | 3.1 |
| September | 28°C | 13°C | 36°C (1994) | 6°C (2019) | 9 mm | 3.0 |
| October | 31°C | 16°C | 37°C (2011) | 7°C (1991) | 22 mm | 6.2 |
| November | 30°C | 18°C | 37°C (2011) | 10°C (2015) | 87 mm | 12.0 |
| December | 27°C | 18°C | 36°C (2014) | 10°C (1994) | 239 mm | 24.8 |
| Year | 26°C | 14°C | 1165 mm | 146 |
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.
1165 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 Ntcheu.
The muggiest month is January, when 51 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 | 18°C | 85% | 0% | 3% | 47% | 51% | 0% | 0% |
| February | 18°C | 85% | 0% | 6% | 44% | 50% | 0% | 0% |
| March | 18°C | 86% | 0% | 7% | 54% | 38% | 0% | 0% |
| April | 15°C | 83% | 11% | 37% | 47% | 5% | 0% | 0% |
| May | 12°C | 78% | 57% | 38% | 4% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| June | 10°C | 76% | 92% | 8% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| July | 9°C | 73% | 98% | 2% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| August | 9°C | 66% | 98% | 2% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| September | 10°C | 57% | 91% | 9% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| October | 12°C | 54% | 64% | 31% | 5% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| November | 14°C | 61% | 25% | 37% | 36% | 3% | 0% | 0% |
| December | 18°C | 78% | 2% | 9% | 57% | 31% | 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 September, with the sky 28 percent covered on average; the cloudiest is January, at 85 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 16.9 km/h at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.
Daylight and sunshine
The longest day is Dec 19, with 13 h 01 min of daylight; the shortest is Jun 12, with 11 h 15 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 Ntcheu 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.