Climate averages 1991–2020
Maputo weather
in September.
A warm, fairly dry month: the 8th warmest and the 5th driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
September is a warm month in Maputo: daytime highs average 25.7°C and nights cool to about 17.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 31 mm of rain on roughly 4 days, which makes September a fairly dry month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 55 min on an average September day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Matola (12 km away). In September its highs average 26.6°C, 1.0°C warmer than Maputo, with 31 mm of rain.
Among the 22 cities listed in Mozambique, Maputo ranks joint 20th of 22 for the warmest September highs and joint 21st of 22 for the driest September (rainfall, lowest first). The mean September high of those 22 cities is 28.6°C; Maputo is 2.9°C cooler than that mean.
From September to October, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 25.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 31 mm to 51 mm.
The annual picture
September 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, selected | 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
September in nearby cities
- Matola in SeptemberMozambique · 12 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 17.8°C · 31 mm rain
- Ressano Garcia in SeptemberMozambique · 83 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 17.2°C · 20 mm rain
- Manzini in SeptemberEswatini · 134 kmHigh 25.2°C · Low 12.5°C · 36 mm rain
- Xai-Xai in SeptemberMozambique · 147 kmHigh 27.7°C · Low 18.8°C · 25 mm rain
- Mbabane in SeptemberEswatini · 150 kmHigh 23.1°C · Low 11.0°C · 57 mm rain
- Mbombela in SeptemberSouth Africa · 171 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 12.3°C · 34 mm rain
- Chibuto in SeptemberMozambique · 171 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 17.5°C · 17 mm rain
- Piet Retief in SeptemberSouth Africa · 211 kmHigh 23.5°C · Low 10.1°C · 38 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.