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Climate guideThirty-year normals for Hlotse
Hlotse climate by month
Subtropical highland · CwbBest May · Aug–Sep
Annual mean14°day and night
Seasonal swing13°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation750 mm111 wet days a year
28.87° S, 28.05° EElevation 1,645 mUTC+2 · South Africa Standard Time
When to goHlotse · weather score
Best timeMay · Aug–Sep
October: high / low22° / 9°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Hlotse has a subtropical highland climate (Köppen Cwb): a dry winter and a wetter summer.
The warmest month is January, when afternoons average 25° and nights 13°. June is the coolest month, with highs of 14° and lows of 0°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 13°.
About 750 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. January is the wettest month (118 mm, 19 wet days) and July the driest (8 mm, 1 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 8% in July to 25% in November.
Compared with Maseru, the capital, Hlotse is 1.7° cooler on a January afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 25° · January
- Coldest nights
- -1° · July
- Wettest month
- January
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- July · 8% cloud
- Longest day
- 13 h 58 min
- Shortest day
- 10 h 19 min
iiCharts
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columnsTemperature curve
Average high, lowDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthiiiData table
Climate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 25° | 25° | 23° | 20° | 17° | 14° | 14° | 17° | 21° | 22° | 23° | 24° |
| Average low | 13° | 13° | 11° | 7° | 3° | 0° | -1° | 2° | 6° | 9° | 10° | 12° |
| Precipitation | 118 mm | 101 mm | 98 mm | 55 mm | 23 mm | 16 mm | 8 mm | 26 mm | 24 mm | 73 mm | 101 mm | 107 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 19.1 | 16.4 | 13.2 | 8.2 | 2.9 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 2.5 | 3.4 | 9.8 | 13.4 | 18.6 |
| Cloud cover | 22% | 21% | 20% | 17% | 13% | 10% | 8% | 11% | 15% | 24% | 25% | 23% |
| Daylight | 13h 47 | 13h 05 | 12h 17 | 11h 25 | 10h 42 | 10h 19 | 10h 28 | 11h 04 | 11h 54 | 12h 45 | 13h 33 | 13h 58 |
| Month score | 67 | 67 | 69 | 81 | 87 | 73 | 76 | 88 | 92 | 77 | 68 | 67 |
ivMonth by month
Hlotse in every month
January67
25° / 13°
118 mm · 19.1 wet days
February67
25° / 13°
101 mm · 16.4 wet days
March69
23° / 11°
98 mm · 13.2 wet days
April81
20° / 7°
55 mm · 8.2 wet days
May87
17° / 3°
23 mm · 2.9 wet days
June73
14° / 0°
16 mm · 1.9 wet days
July76
14° / -1°
8 mm · 1.1 wet day
August88
17° / 2°
26 mm · 2.5 wet days
September92
21° / 6°
24 mm · 3.4 wet days
October77
22° / 9°
73 mm · 9.8 wet days
November68
23° / 10°
101 mm · 13.4 wet days
December67
24° / 12°
107 mm · 18.6 wet days