Mwinilunga, Zambia Climate
The warmest month is September, with an average high of 33°C; the coldest is July, with an average low of 10°C. A normal year brings 1264 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
- 34°C
- Normal low
- 18°C
- Reanalysis high
- 37°Cin 2008
- Reanalysis low
- 15°Cin 1992
- Chance of a wet day
- 17%
- 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 | 24°C | 17°C | 29°C (2006) | 14°C (2002) | 245 mm | 27.9 |
| February | 24°C | 17°C | 29°C (2004) | 12°C (2008) | 201 mm | 25.4 |
| March | 25°C | 17°C | 29°C (2004) | 12°C (1994) | 205 mm | 27.9 |
| April | 25°C | 15°C | 31°C (1999) | 10°C (2002) | 66 mm | 12.0 |
| May | 26°C | 13°C | 33°C (1999) | 8°C (1993) | 3 mm | 0.0 |
| June | 26°C | 11°C | 32°C (2003) | 6°C (2018) | 0 mm | 0.0 |
| July | 27°C | 10°C | 32°C (2015) | 6°C (2020) | 0 mm | 0.0 |
| August | 31°C | 13°C | 35°C (1995) | 8°C (2010) | 3 mm | 0.0 |
| September | 33°C | 17°C | 37°C (2008) | 11°C (1993) | 12 mm | 3.0 |
| October | 32°C | 19°C | 39°C (2003) | 14°C (2017) | 68 mm | 15.5 |
| November | 27°C | 18°C | 37°C (2020) | 13°C (1992) | 207 mm | 27.0 |
| December | 25°C | 17°C | 31°C (2003) | 13°C (1994) | 254 mm | 27.9 |
| Year | 27°C | 15°C | 1264 mm | 167 |
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.
1264 mm in a normal year, most in December.
Chance of a wet day
- Chance of a wet day
Humidity and comfort
NASA POWER reanalysis, 1991-2020, for the grid cell around Mwinilunga.
The muggiest month is March, when 24 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 | 86% | 0% | 0% | 83% | 17% | 0% | 0% |
| February | 18°C | 86% | 0% | 0% | 80% | 19% | 0% | 0% |
| March | 18°C | 85% | 0% | 2% | 75% | 24% | 0% | 0% |
| April | 16°C | 81% | 7% | 23% | 63% | 7% | 0% | 0% |
| May | 11°C | 66% | 59% | 33% | 8% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| June | 6°C | 52% | 98% | 2% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| July | 3°C | 42% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| August | 3°C | 33% | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| September | 5°C | 31% | 95% | 5% | 1% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| October | 12°C | 50% | 49% | 32% | 18% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| November | 17°C | 75% | 3% | 15% | 77% | 5% | 0% | 0% |
| December | 18°C | 84% | 0% | 1% | 84% | 15% | 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 June, with the sky 16 percent covered on average; the cloudiest is January, at 91 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 August, averaging 16.2 km/h at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.
Daylight and sunshine
The longest day is Jan 1, with 12 h 49 min of daylight; the shortest is Jun 11, with 11 h 26 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 Mwinilunga 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.