Mafinga, Tanzania Climate
The warmest month is October, with an average high of 34°C; the coldest is July, with an average low of 13°C. A normal year brings 803 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
- 17°C
- Reanalysis high
- 36°Cin 2007
- Reanalysis low
- 15°Cin 1997
- Chance of a wet day
- 2%
- Daylight
- 12 h 07 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 | 29°C | 19°C | 37°C (1994) | 16°C (1993) | 180 mm | 21.7 |
| February | 28°C | 19°C | 37°C (2006) | 15°C (2007) | 147 mm | 19.8 |
| March | 28°C | 18°C | 35°C (2003) | 15°C (1992) | 140 mm | 21.7 |
| April | 29°C | 18°C | 34°C (2010) | 14°C (2004) | 84 mm | 15.0 |
| May | 30°C | 16°C | 33°C (2001) | 12°C (2016) | 19 mm | 3.1 |
| June | 29°C | 14°C | 33°C (1998) | 10°C (1996) | 0 mm | 0.0 |
| July | 29°C | 13°C | 34°C (2007) | 8°C (1996) | 0 mm | 0.0 |
| August | 30°C | 15°C | 34°C (2003) | 10°C (1993) | 0 mm | 0.0 |
| September | 33°C | 16°C | 36°C (2015) | 12°C (2008) | 3 mm | 0.0 |
| October | 34°C | 18°C | 37°C (2011) | 14°C (1993) | 12 mm | 3.1 |
| November | 33°C | 19°C | 37°C (2011) | 15°C (1995) | 57 mm | 9.0 |
| December | 31°C | 19°C | 37°C (1998) | 15°C (1993) | 161 mm | 18.6 |
| Year | 30°C | 17°C | 803 mm | 112 |
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.
803 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 Mafinga.
The muggiest month is February, when 58 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 | 74% | 1% | 9% | 42% | 48% | 0% | 0% |
| February | 18°C | 77% | 1% | 7% | 34% | 58% | 0% | 0% |
| March | 18°C | 78% | 0% | 4% | 38% | 58% | 0% | 0% |
| April | 18°C | 76% | 0% | 7% | 59% | 33% | 0% | 0% |
| May | 15°C | 67% | 12% | 50% | 36% | 2% | 0% | 0% |
| June | 12°C | 60% | 67% | 31% | 2% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| July | 10°C | 55% | 94% | 6% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| August | 10°C | 51% | 94% | 6% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| September | 11°C | 47% | 92% | 8% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| October | 12°C | 47% | 66% | 31% | 3% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| November | 14°C | 54% | 28% | 44% | 23% | 5% | 0% | 0% |
| December | 17°C | 66% | 6% | 26% | 39% | 28% | 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 20 percent covered on average; the cloudiest is January, at 70 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 19.8 km/h at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.
Daylight and sunshine
The longest day is Jan 2, with 12 h 33 min of daylight; the shortest is Jun 8, with 11 h 42 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 Mafinga 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.