Climate averages 1991–2020
Songea weather
in April.
A warm, wet month: the 9th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a warm month in Songea: daytime highs average 24.1°C and nights cool to about 17.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 129 mm of rain on roughly 21 days, which makes April a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 52 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Njombe (177 km away). In April its highs average 19.6°C, 4.5°C cooler than Songea, with 83 mm of rain.
Among the 43 cities listed in Tanzania, Songea ranks 35th of 43 for the warmest April highs and 20th of 43 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 43 cities is 26.1°C; Songea is 2.0°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs fall by 0.5°C to 23.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 129 mm to 29 mm.
The annual picture
April 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
Songea climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 26.4°C18.5°C | 18.5°C | 315 | 27.1 | 12.713 h |
| February | 26.1°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 273 | 24.8 | 12.512 h |
| March | 25.4°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 261 | 28.1 | 12.212 h |
| April, selected | 24.1°C17.3°C | 17.3°C | 129 | 20.6 | 11.912 h |
| May | 23.6°C15.4°C | 15.4°C | 29 | 6.4 | 11.612 h |
| June | 22.8°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 4.3 | 1.3 | 11.512 h |
| July | 22.5°C12.5°C | 12.5°C | 3.8 | 1.1 | 11.612 h |
| August | 24.4°C13.1°C | 13.1°C | 5.1 | 1.5 | 11.812 h |
| September | 27.0°C14.5°C | 14.5°C | 4.2 | 1.4 | 12.012 h |
| October | 28.8°C17.0°C | 17.0°C | 22 | 5.0 | 12.312 h |
| November | 29.3°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 71 | 9.2 | 12.613 h |
| December | 27.2°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 224 | 21.4 | 12.713 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
April in nearby cities
- Njombe in AprilTanzania · 177 kmHigh 19.6°C · Low 13.2°C · 83 mm rain
- Mzuzu in AprilMalawi · 198 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 15.9°C · 140 mm rain
- Makumbako in AprilTanzania · 223 kmHigh 22.0°C · Low 15.4°C · 49 mm rain
- Mafinga in AprilTanzania · 268 kmHigh 21.1°C · Low 14.8°C · 109 mm rain
- Katumba in AprilTanzania · 275 kmHigh 22.5°C · Low 16.4°C · 186 mm rain
- Lichinga in AprilMozambique · 296 kmHigh 23.1°C · Low 14.5°C · 44 mm rain
- Ifakara in AprilTanzania · 305 kmHigh 27.4°C · Low 21.5°C · 156 mm rain
- Iringa in AprilTanzania · 324 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 15.6°C · 57 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 Songea) is explained once on the Songea year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.