Climate averages 1991–2020
Songea weather
in November.
A hot, moderately wet month: the warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
November is a hot month in Songea: daytime highs average 29.3°C and nights cool to about 18.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 71 mm of rain on roughly 9 days, which makes November a moderately wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 36 min on an average November day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Njombe (177 km away). In November its highs average 22.6°C, 6.7°C cooler than Songea, with 54 mm of rain.
Among the 43 cities listed in Tanzania, Songea ranks joint 13th of 43 for the warmest November highs and 13th of 43 for the driest November (rainfall, lowest first). The mean November high of those 43 cities is 27.8°C; Songea is 1.5°C warmer than that mean.
From November to December, average highs fall by 2.1°C to 27.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 71 mm to 224 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
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 | 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, selected | 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
November in nearby cities
- Njombe in NovemberTanzania · 177 kmHigh 22.6°C · Low 12.7°C · 54 mm rain
- Mzuzu in NovemberMalawi · 198 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 17.2°C · 104 mm rain
- Makumbako in NovemberTanzania · 223 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 15.3°C · 57 mm rain
- Mafinga in NovemberTanzania · 268 kmHigh 24.4°C · Low 14.5°C · 106 mm rain
- Katumba in NovemberTanzania · 275 kmHigh 26.0°C · Low 16.8°C · 179 mm rain
- Lichinga in NovemberMozambique · 296 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 17.4°C · 79 mm rain
- Ifakara in NovemberTanzania · 305 kmHigh 32.8°C · Low 22.4°C · 36 mm rain
- Iringa in NovemberTanzania · 324 kmHigh 25.8°C · Low 15.1°C · 46 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.