Climate averages 1991–2020

Mtwapa weather
in July.

A warm, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 8th driest of the year.

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

Average high 27.0°C Daytime mean, July
Average low 22.3°C Night-time mean, July
Rainfall 69 mm 20 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Mtwapa · average highYear overview

July is a warm month in Mtwapa: daytime highs average 27.0°C and nights cool to about 22.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 69 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes July a moderately wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 55 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Mombasa (16 km away). In July its highs average 26.3°C, 0.7°C cooler than Mtwapa, with 69 mm of rain.

Among the 37 cities listed in Kenya, Mtwapa ranks 6th of 37 for the warmest July highs and joint 28th of 37 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 37 cities is 23.8°C; Mtwapa is 3.2°C warmer than that mean.

From July to August, average highs rise by 0.5°C to 27.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 69 mm to 49 mm.

The annual picture

July in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 20253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 2500

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

Every month, side by side

Mtwapa climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Mtwapa, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 31.5°C24.7°C24.7°C183.512.312 h
February 32.2°C24.8°C24.8°C112.412.212 h
March 32.1°C25.1°C25.1°C4912.412.112 h
April 30.3°C24.7°C24.7°C13624.412.012 h
May 28.3°C23.9°C23.9°C22324.111.912 h
June 27.5°C23.1°C23.1°C9220.511.912 h
July, selected 27.0°C22.3°C22.3°C6919.811.912 h
August 27.5°C22.1°C22.1°C4917.212.012 h
September 28.4°C22.6°C22.6°C4314.812.112 h
October 29.3°C23.3°C23.3°C7514.912.212 h
November 30.0°C23.8°C23.8°C6616.112.312 h
December 30.8°C24.4°C24.4°C4613.012.312 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

July in nearby cities

Distance from Mtwapa

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 Mtwapa) is explained once on the Mtwapa year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.

Mombasa lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.