Climate averages 1991–2020
Maputo weather
in February.
A hot, wet month: the 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 Maputo: daytime highs average 28.4°C and nights cool to about 22.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 95 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes February a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 59 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Matola (12 km away). In February its highs average 29.1°C, 0.7°C warmer than Maputo, with 95 mm of rain.
Among the 22 cities listed in Mozambique, Maputo ranks joint 16th of 22 for the warmest February highs and joint 4th of 22 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 22 cities is 29.0°C; Maputo is 0.6°C cooler than that mean.
From February to March, average highs fall by 0.5°C to 27.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 95 mm to 73 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
Maputo climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 28.2°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 115 | 11.9 | 13.614 h |
| February, selected | 28.4°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 95 | 10.6 | 13.013 h |
| March | 27.9°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 73 | 10.2 | 12.312 h |
| April | 26.4°C20.0°C | 20.0°C | 42 | 6.5 | 11.511 h |
| May | 25.1°C17.7°C | 17.7°C | 23 | 3.3 | 10.911 h |
| June | 23.6°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 12 | 2.5 | 10.511 h |
| July | 23.0°C15.0°C | 15.0°C | 11 | 2.6 | 10.711 h |
| August | 24.3°C16.2°C | 16.2°C | 13 | 2.5 | 11.211 h |
| September | 25.7°C17.9°C | 17.9°C | 31 | 3.8 | 11.912 h |
| October | 25.8°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 51 | 6.8 | 12.713 h |
| November | 26.8°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 91 | 9.9 | 13.413 h |
| December | 27.9°C21.9°C | 21.9°C | 103 | 10.3 | 13.714 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
- Matola in FebruaryMozambique · 12 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 22.7°C · 95 mm rain
- Ressano Garcia in FebruaryMozambique · 83 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 22.2°C · 88 mm rain
- Manzini in FebruaryEswatini · 134 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 18.6°C · 107 mm rain
- Xai-Xai in FebruaryMozambique · 147 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 23.7°C · 84 mm rain
- Mbabane in FebruaryEswatini · 150 kmHigh 24.4°C · Low 16.2°C · 177 mm rain
- Mbombela in FebruarySouth Africa · 171 kmHigh 27.9°C · Low 18.9°C · 135 mm rain
- Chibuto in FebruaryMozambique · 171 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 22.5°C · 72 mm rain
- Piet Retief in FebruarySouth Africa · 211 kmHigh 24.8°C · Low 15.6°C · 117 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 Maputo) is explained once on the Maputo year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Matola lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.