Climate averages 1991–2020

Handeni weather
in July.

A warm, fairly dry month: the coolest and the driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 24.5°C Daytime mean, July

Average low 16.7°C Night-time mean, July

Rainfall 29 mm 9 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

July is a warm month in Handeni: daytime highs average 24.5°C and nights cool to about 16.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 29 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes July a fairly dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 50 min on an average July day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Tanga (126 km away). In July its highs average 27.1°C, 2.6°C warmer than Handeni, with 35 mm of rain.

Among the 43 cities listed in Tanzania, Handeni ranks 32nd of 43 for the warmest July highs and joint 41st of 43 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 43 cities is 25.8°C; Handeni is 1.3°C cooler than that mean.

From July to August, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 24.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 29 mm to 41 mm.

The annual picture

July in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Handeni climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Handeni, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	30.5°C21.0°C	21.0°C	119	14.5	12.412 h
February	30.8°C21.0°C	21.0°C	110	12.4	12.312 h
March	29.3°C21.1°C	21.1°C	160	22.2	12.112 h
April	26.6°C20.5°C	20.5°C	189	26.5	12.012 h
May	25.2°C19.2°C	19.2°C	123	19.1	11.912 h
June	24.7°C17.6°C	17.6°C	36	10.3	11.812 h
July, selected	24.5°C16.7°C	16.7°C	29	8.7	11.812 h
August	24.9°C17.1°C	17.1°C	41	11.6	11.912 h
September	26.1°C17.9°C	17.9°C	38	10.7	12.112 h
October	27.2°C18.9°C	18.9°C	81	14.7	12.212 h
November	28.0°C20.0°C	20.0°C	107	19.5	12.412 h
December	29.3°C20.8°C	20.8°C	141	20.7	12.412 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

July in nearby cities

Distance from Handeni

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Handeni) is explained once on the Handeni year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.