Climate averages 1991–2020
Lusaka weather
in February.
A warm, very wet month: the joint 6th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a warm month in Lusaka: daytime highs average 25.0°C and nights cool to about 17.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 188 mm of rain on roughly 22 days, which makes February a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 36 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Chunga (10 km away). In February its highs average 25.4°C, about as warm as Lusaka, with 170 mm of rain.
Among the 24 cities listed in Zambia, Lusaka ranks 22nd of 24 for the warmest February highs and joint 8th of 24 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 24 cities is 25.6°C; Lusaka is 0.6°C cooler than that mean.
From February to March, average highs stay level at 25.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 188 mm to 129 mm.
The annual picture
February 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
Lusaka climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25.1°C17.9°C | 17.9°C | 240 | 25.5 | 12.913 h |
| February, selected | 25.0°C17.8°C | 17.8°C | 188 | 22.0 | 12.613 h |
| March | 25.0°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 129 | 18.9 | 12.212 h |
| April | 24.6°C15.8°C | 15.8°C | 27 | 5.4 | 11.812 h |
| May | 23.9°C13.7°C | 13.7°C | 3.1 | 0.9 | 11.411 h |
| June | 22.0°C11.6°C | 11.6°C | 0.9 | 0.1 | 11.211 h |
| July | 21.7°C11.0°C | 11.0°C | 0.7 | 0.1 | 11.311 h |
| August | 25.0°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 0.4 | 0.1 | 11.612 h |
| September | 28.7°C16.8°C | 16.8°C | 2.1 | 0.4 | 12.012 h |
| October | 30.5°C19.2°C | 19.2°C | 15 | 3.3 | 12.412 h |
| November | 28.9°C19.4°C | 19.4°C | 98 | 14.3 | 12.813 h |
| December | 25.9°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 228 | 24.5 | 13.013 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
February in nearby cities
- Chunga in FebruaryZambia · 10 kmHigh 25.4°C · Low 18.1°C · 170 mm rain
- Namalombwe in FebruaryZambia · 11 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 18.0°C · 188 mm rain
- Madido in FebruaryZambia · 11 kmHigh 25.2°C · Low 18.1°C · 170 mm rain
- Kafue in FebruaryZambia · 42 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 19.2°C · 181 mm rain
- Mazabuka in FebruaryZambia · 76 kmHigh 26.5°C · Low 18.9°C · 144 mm rain
- Kabwe in FebruaryZambia · 108 kmHigh 25.5°C · Low 18.0°C · 189 mm rain
- Kapiri Mposhi in FebruaryZambia · 165 kmHigh 25.3°C · Low 17.6°C · 199 mm rain
- Choma in FebruaryZambia · 209 kmHigh 24.7°C · Low 17.3°C · 176 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 Lusaka) is explained once on the Lusaka year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Namalombwe lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.