Climate averages 1991–2020

Menongue weather
in March.

A warm, wet month: the coolest and the 10th driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 25.9°C Daytime mean, March

Average low 16.6°C Night-time mean, March

Rainfall 167 mm 22 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

March is a warm month in Menongue: daytime highs average 25.9°C and nights cool to about 16.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 167 mm of rain on roughly 22 days, which makes March a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 11 min on an average March day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Cuíto (266 km away). In March its highs average 23.4°C, 2.5°C cooler than Menongue, with 203 mm of rain.

Among the 47 cities listed in Angola, Menongue ranks 38th of 47 for the warmest March highs and 25th of 47 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 47 cities is 28.2°C; Menongue is 2.3°C cooler than that mean.

From March to April, average highs rise by 0.8°C to 26.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 167 mm to 40 mm.

The annual picture

March in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Menongue climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Menongue, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	26.2°C16.9°C	16.9°C	172	21.2	12.913 h
February	26.0°C16.8°C	16.8°C	166	19.5	12.613 h
March, selected	25.9°C16.6°C	16.6°C	167	21.5	12.212 h
April	26.7°C14.9°C	14.9°C	40	7.7	11.812 h
May	27.4°C12.4°C	12.4°C	1.6	0.4	11.411 h
June	26.3°C9.3°C	9.3°C	0	0.0	11.311 h
July	26.5°C8.8°C	8.8°C	0	0.0	11.311 h
August	29.9°C11.8°C	11.8°C	0.2	0.1	11.612 h
September	32.7°C15.2°C	15.2°C	5.5	1.5	12.012 h
October	32.4°C17.2°C	17.2°C	42	9.4	12.412 h
November	28.7°C17.1°C	17.1°C	128	19.4	12.813 h
December	26.7°C17.2°C	17.2°C	191	22.5	13.013 h

Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

Compare places

March in nearby cities

Distance from Menongue

Read the numbers correctly

Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Menongue) is explained once on the Menongue year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.