Climate averages 1991–2020
Morogoro weather
in May.
A warm, moderately wet month: the 10th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Morogoro: daytime highs average 26.9°C and nights cool to about 20.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 59 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 49 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kilosa (75 km away). In May its highs average 26.7°C, about as warm as Morogoro, with 52 mm of rain.
Among the 43 cities listed in Tanzania, Morogoro ranks joint 19th of 43 for the warmest May highs and 28th of 43 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 43 cities is 26.1°C; Morogoro is 0.8°C warmer than that mean.
From May to June, average highs fall by 0.3°C to 26.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 59 mm to 15 mm.
The annual picture
May 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
Morogoro climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 30.6°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 110 | 16.6 | 12.512 h |
| February | 30.8°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 112 | 15.0 | 12.312 h |
| March | 29.3°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 192 | 23.7 | 12.112 h |
| April | 27.4°C21.4°C | 21.4°C | 161 | 24.6 | 12.012 h |
| May, selected | 26.9°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 59 | 12.6 | 11.812 h |
| June | 26.6°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 15 | 4.2 | 11.712 h |
| July | 26.6°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 9.1 | 2.6 | 11.812 h |
| August | 27.4°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 11 | 3.0 | 11.912 h |
| September | 28.9°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 11 | 3.2 | 12.112 h |
| October | 29.8°C20.2°C | 20.2°C | 34 | 7.2 | 12.312 h |
| November | 29.9°C21.4°C | 21.4°C | 60 | 14.6 | 12.412 h |
| December | 30.1°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 102 | 18.9 | 12.513 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
May in nearby cities
- Kilosa in MayTanzania · 75 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 19.3°C · 52 mm rain
- Kibaha in MayTanzania · 139 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 21.9°C · 128 mm rain
- Bagamoyo in MayTanzania · 144 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 22.9°C · 130 mm rain
- Handeni in MayTanzania · 159 kmHigh 25.2°C · Low 19.2°C · 123 mm rain
- Dar es Salaam in MayTanzania · 178 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 23.6°C · 152 mm rain
- Ifakara in MayTanzania · 181 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 19.9°C · 52 mm rain
- Vikindu in MayTanzania · 182 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 23.4°C · 130 mm rain
- Zanzibar in MayTanzania · 185 kmHigh 27.7°C · Low 24.3°C · 146 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 Morogoro) is explained once on the Morogoro year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.