Chunga, Zambia Climate
The warmest month is October, with an average high of 34°C; the coldest is July, with an average low of 11°C. A normal year brings 772 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
- 34°C
- Normal low
- 17°C
- Reanalysis high
- 38°Cin 2012
- Reanalysis low
- 14°Cin 2014
- Chance of a wet day
- 2%
- Daylight
- 12 h 08 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 | 19°C | 36°C (1992) | 15°C (1992) | 198 mm | 24.8 |
| February | 27°C | 19°C | 36°C (1992) | 14°C (2008) | 144 mm | 22.6 |
| March | 28°C | 18°C | 36°C (2019) | 12°C (2008) | 118 mm | 18.6 |
| April | 28°C | 16°C | 36°C (1995) | 11°C (1996) | 27 mm | 6.0 |
| May | 28°C | 14°C | 36°C (1998) | 9°C (1997) | 3 mm | 0.0 |
| June | 26°C | 11°C | 33°C (1994) | 6°C (2006) | 0 mm | 0.0 |
| July | 25°C | 11°C | 32°C (2007) | 4°C (1994) | 0 mm | 0.0 |
| August | 29°C | 13°C | 36°C (2020) | 7°C (2006) | 0 mm | 0.0 |
| September | 32°C | 16°C | 40°C (1994) | 9°C (2006) | 3 mm | 0.0 |
| October | 34°C | 19°C | 42°C (2011) | 13°C (2011) | 12 mm | 3.1 |
| November | 33°C | 20°C | 41°C (1994) | 13°C (2000) | 78 mm | 12.0 |
| December | 29°C | 19°C | 38°C (2015) | 15°C (1992) | 189 mm | 21.7 |
| Year | 29°C | 16°C | 772 mm | 109 |
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.
772 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 Chunga.
The muggiest month is January, when 73 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 | 19°C | 79% | 0% | 3% | 23% | 73% | 0% | 0% |
| February | 19°C | 80% | 0% | 3% | 24% | 72% | 1% | 0% |
| March | 18°C | 77% | 2% | 11% | 41% | 46% | 0% | 0% |
| April | 14°C | 66% | 31% | 35% | 29% | 5% | 0% | 0% |
| May | 10°C | 55% | 88% | 11% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| June | 7°C | 52% | 99% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| July | 5°C | 50% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| August | 5°C | 42% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| September | 6°C | 36% | 98% | 2% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| October | 9°C | 38% | 84% | 13% | 3% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| November | 14°C | 51% | 36% | 26% | 31% | 6% | 0% | 0% |
| December | 18°C | 72% | 4% | 10% | 32% | 55% | 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 22 percent covered on average; the cloudiest is January, at 82 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 18.7 km/h at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.
Daylight and sunshine
The longest day is Dec 22, with 13 h 03 min of daylight; the shortest is Jun 14, with 11 h 13 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 Chunga 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.