Climate averages 1991–2020
Lusaka weather
in November.
A hot, wet month: the 2nd warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
November is a hot month in Lusaka: daytime highs average 28.9°C and nights cool to about 19.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 98 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes November a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 49 min on an average November day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Chunga (10 km away). In November its highs average 29.6°C, 0.6°C warmer than Lusaka, with 82 mm of rain.
Among the 24 cities listed in Zambia, Lusaka ranks joint 13th of 24 for the warmest November highs and joint 10th of 24 for the driest November (rainfall, lowest first). The mean November high of those 24 cities is 29.1°C; Lusaka is 0.2°C cooler than that mean.
From November to December, average highs fall by 3.0°C to 25.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 98 mm to 228 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
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 | 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, selected | 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
November in nearby cities
- Chunga in NovemberZambia · 10 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 19.8°C · 82 mm rain
- Namalombwe in NovemberZambia · 11 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 19.6°C · 98 mm rain
- Madido in NovemberZambia · 11 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 19.6°C · 82 mm rain
- Kafue in NovemberZambia · 42 kmHigh 30.6°C · Low 20.6°C · 91 mm rain
- Mazabuka in NovemberZambia · 76 kmHigh 30.8°C · Low 20.7°C · 74 mm rain
- Kabwe in NovemberZambia · 108 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 19.5°C · 87 mm rain
- Kapiri Mposhi in NovemberZambia · 165 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 19.0°C · 93 mm rain
- Choma in NovemberZambia · 209 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 18.5°C · 96 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.