Climate averages 1991–2020
Maputo weather
in November.
A warm, wet month: the 5th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
November is a warm month in Maputo: daytime highs average 26.8°C and nights cool to about 20.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 91 mm of rain on roughly 10 days, which makes November a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 13 h 22 min on an average November day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Matola (12 km away). In November its highs average 27.6°C, 0.8°C warmer than Maputo, with 91 mm of rain.
Among the 22 cities listed in Mozambique, Maputo ranks 22nd of 22 for the warmest November highs and joint 20th of 22 for the driest November (rainfall, lowest first). The mean November high of those 22 cities is 30.5°C; Maputo is 3.8°C cooler than that mean.
From November to December, average highs rise by 1.1°C to 27.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 91 mm to 103 mm.
The annual picture
November 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 | 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, selected | 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
November in nearby cities
- Matola in NovemberMozambique · 12 kmHigh 27.6°C · Low 20.4°C · 91 mm rain
- Ressano Garcia in NovemberMozambique · 83 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 20.0°C · 71 mm rain
- Manzini in NovemberEswatini · 134 kmHigh 26.0°C · Low 16.2°C · 120 mm rain
- Xai-Xai in NovemberMozambique · 147 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 21.6°C · 73 mm rain
- Mbabane in NovemberEswatini · 150 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 14.0°C · 171 mm rain
- Mbombela in NovemberSouth Africa · 171 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 16.6°C · 122 mm rain
- Chibuto in NovemberMozambique · 171 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 20.7°C · 66 mm rain
- Piet Retief in NovemberSouth Africa · 211 kmHigh 24.0°C · Low 13.2°C · 131 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.