Climate averages 1991–2020
Matola 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 Matola: daytime highs average 27.6°C and nights cool to about 20.4°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 Maputo (12 km away). In November its highs average 26.8°C, 0.8°C cooler than Matola, with 91 mm of rain.
Among the 22 cities listed in Mozambique, Matola ranks 19th 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; Matola is 2.9°C cooler than that mean.
From November to December, average highs rise by 1.1°C to 28.7°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
Matola climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 28.8°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 115 | 11.9 | 13.614 h |
| February | 29.1°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 95 | 10.6 | 13.013 h |
| March | 28.7°C21.9°C | 21.9°C | 73 | 10.2 | 12.312 h |
| April | 27.0°C19.8°C | 19.8°C | 42 | 6.5 | 11.511 h |
| May | 25.8°C17.4°C | 17.4°C | 23 | 3.3 | 10.911 h |
| June | 24.3°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 12 | 2.5 | 10.511 h |
| July | 23.7°C14.7°C | 14.7°C | 11 | 2.6 | 10.711 h |
| August | 25.1°C15.9°C | 15.9°C | 13 | 2.5 | 11.211 h |
| September | 26.6°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 31 | 3.8 | 11.912 h |
| October | 26.8°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 51 | 6.8 | 12.713 h |
| November, selected | 27.6°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 91 | 9.9 | 13.413 h |
| December | 28.7°C21.8°C | 21.8°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
- Maputo in NovemberMozambique · 12 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 20.5°C · 91 mm rain
- Ressano Garcia in NovemberMozambique · 74 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 20.0°C · 71 mm rain
- Manzini in NovemberEswatini · 123 kmHigh 26.0°C · Low 16.2°C · 120 mm rain
- Mbabane in NovemberEswatini · 138 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 14.0°C · 171 mm rain
- Xai-Xai in NovemberMozambique · 156 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 21.6°C · 73 mm rain
- Mbombela in NovemberSouth Africa · 159 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 16.6°C · 122 mm rain
- Chibuto in NovemberMozambique · 178 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 20.7°C · 66 mm rain
- Piet Retief in NovemberSouth Africa · 201 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 Matola) is explained once on the Matola year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Maputo lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.