Climate averages 1991–2020
Dondo weather
in February.
A hot, wet month: the joint 5th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a hot month in Dondo: daytime highs average 30.4°C and nights cool to about 23.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 158 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes February a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 45 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Beira (28 km away). In February its highs average 30.5°C, about as warm as Dondo, with 158 mm of rain.
Among the 22 cities listed in Mozambique, Dondo ranks joint 4th of 22 for the warmest February highs and joint 10th of 22 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 22 cities is 29.0°C; Dondo is 1.4°C warmer than that mean.
From February to March, average highs fall by 0.5°C to 29.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 158 mm to 118 mm.
The annual picture
February in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Dondo climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 30.7°C23.2°C | 23.2°C | 200 | 19.8 | 13.213 h |
| February, selected | 30.4°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 158 | 17.1 | 12.813 h |
| March | 29.9°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 118 | 17.0 | 12.212 h |
| April | 28.5°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 52 | 10.8 | 11.712 h |
| May | 27.4°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 19 | 4.8 | 11.211 h |
| June | 26.0°C15.7°C | 15.7°C | 14 | 4.2 | 11.011 h |
| July | 25.5°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 17 | 5.3 | 11.111 h |
| August | 27.7°C16.1°C | 16.1°C | 11 | 3.4 | 11.411 h |
| September | 30.4°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 15 | 3.6 | 12.012 h |
| October | 31.4°C20.2°C | 20.2°C | 25 | 5.9 | 12.513 h |
| November | 32.1°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 78 | 10.0 | 13.013 h |
| December | 31.3°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 178 | 15.7 | 13.313 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
February in nearby cities
- Beira in FebruaryMozambique · 28 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 23.9°C · 158 mm rain
- Chimoio in FebruaryMozambique · 143 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 19.8°C · 161 mm rain
- Mutare in FebruaryZimbabwe · 229 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 17.6°C · 148 mm rain
- Quelimane in FebruaryMozambique · 297 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 24.6°C · 155 mm rain
- Mocuba in FebruaryMozambique · 389 kmHigh 30.4°C · Low 22.7°C · 164 mm rain
- Tete in FebruaryMozambique · 403 kmHigh 31.3°C · Low 23.8°C · 148 mm rain
- Masvingo in FebruaryZimbabwe · 413 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 17.5°C · 106 mm rain
- Ruwa in FebruaryZimbabwe · 415 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 15.5°C · 140 mm rain
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 limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Dondo) is explained once on the Dondo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.