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Climate guideThirty-year normals for Chitungwiza
Chitungwiza climate by month
Subtropical highland · CwbBest Jun–Aug
Annual mean19°day and night
Seasonal swing8°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation767 mm107 wet days a year
18.01° S, 31.08° EElevation 1,435 mUTC+2 · Central Africa Time
When to goChitungwiza · weather score
Best timeJun–Aug
October: high / low28° / 15°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Chitungwiza has a subtropical highland climate (Köppen Cwb): a dry winter and a wetter summer.
The warmest month is October, when afternoons average 28° and nights 15°. July is the coolest month, with highs of 20° and lows of 8°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 8°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 767 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. December is the wettest month (164 mm, 22 wet days) and August the driest (2 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 8% in August to 46% in January.
Compared with Harare, the capital, Chitungwiza is 0.4° warmer on a October afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 28° · October
- Coldest nights
- 8° · July
- Wettest month
- December
- Driest month
- August
- Clearest skies
- August · 8% cloud
- Longest day
- 13 h 12 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 03 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° | 25° | 24° | 22° | 20° | 20° | 23° | 27° | 28° | 27° | 25° |
| Average low | 16° | 16° | 15° | 13° | 11° | 8° | 8° | 9° | 13° | 15° | 16° | 16° |
| Precipitation | 180 mm | 150 mm | 113 mm | 32 mm | 10 mm | 3 mm | 1 mm | 2 mm | 4 mm | 32 mm | 76 mm | 164 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 20.7 | 17.7 | 15.3 | 7 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.8 | 0.1 | 1.4 | 5.9 | 14.1 | 21.9 |
| Cloud cover | 46% | 41% | 30% | 18% | 13% | 11% | 12% | 8% | 9% | 15% | 31% | 46% |
| Daylight | 13h 05 | 12h 41 | 12h 13 | 11h 42 | 11h 17 | 11h 03 | 11h 09 | 11h 30 | 11h 59 | 12h 29 | 12h 57 | 13h 12 |
| Month score | 59 | 62 | 67 | 84 | 96 | 99 | 98 | 100 | 90 | 75 | 58 | 59 |
ivMonth by month
Chitungwiza in every month
January59
25° / 16°
180 mm · 20.7 wet days
February62
25° / 16°
150 mm · 17.7 wet days
March67
25° / 15°
113 mm · 15.3 wet days
April84
24° / 13°
32 mm · 7 wet days
May96
22° / 11°
10 mm · 1.6 wet days
June99
20° / 8°
3 mm · 0.6 wet day
July98
20° / 8°
1 mm · 0.8 wet day
August100
23° / 9°
2 mm · 0.1 wet days
September90
27° / 13°
4 mm · 1.4 wet day
October75
28° / 15°
32 mm · 5.9 wet days
November58
27° / 16°
76 mm · 14.1 wet days
December59
25° / 16°
164 mm · 21.9 wet days