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Malindi climate by month
What the weather is like
Malindi has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw): .
The warmest month is March, when afternoons average 30° and nights 26°. July is the coolest month, with highs of 26° and lows of 23°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 3°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 1,035 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. May is the wettest month (246 mm, 20 wet days) and February the driest (7 mm, 2 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 16% in September to 32% in June.
The sea reaches about 29° in April. Sea temperatures lag the air by a month or two, so late summer is usually warmer for swimming than early summer.
Compared with Nairobi, the capital, Malindi is 3.6° warmer on a March afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 30° · March
- Coldest nights
- 23° · August
- Wettest month
- May
- Driest month
- February
- Clearest skies
- September · 16% cloud
- Warmest sea
- 29° · April
- Longest day
- 12 h 18 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 56 min
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columns, sea temperature lineTemperature curve
Average high, low and seaDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthClimate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 29° | 29° | 30° | 29° | 28° | 27° | 26° | 26° | 26° | 27° | 28° | 29° |
| Average low | 25° | 25° | 26° | 25° | 25° | 24° | 23° | 23° | 24° | 24° | 25° | 25° |
| Precipitation | 18 mm | 7 mm | 51 mm | 154 mm | 246 mm | 133 mm | 85 mm | 56 mm | 43 mm | 93 mm | 86 mm | 63 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 4.2 | 2.2 | 8.8 | 20 | 20.2 | 19.5 | 15.3 | 9 | 9.3 | 7.8 | 16 | 15.5 |
| Cloud cover | 21% | 22% | 22% | 30% | 29% | 32% | 30% | 26% | 16% | 19% | 21% | 20% |
| Sea temperature | 27° | 27° | 29° | 29° | 28° | 27° | 26° | 25° | 26° | 27° | 28° | 28° |
| Daylight | 12h 17 | 12h 13 | 12h 08 | 12h 02 | 11h 58 | 11h 56 | 11h 57 | 12h 00 | 12h 05 | 12h 11 | 12h 16 | 12h 18 |
| Month score | 74 | 78 | 60 | 50 | 56 | 59 | 63 | 75 | 72 | 72 | 53 | 51 |