Satellite: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH · CC BY 4.0 · Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016
Climate guideThirty-year normals for Marondera
Marondera climate by month
Subtropical highland · CwbBest Jun–Aug
Annual mean17°day and night
Seasonal swing7°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation915 mm112 wet days a year
18.19° S, 31.55° EElevation 1,668 mUTC+2 · Central Africa Time
When to goMarondera · weather score
Best timeJun–Aug
October: high / low25° / 13°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Marondera has a subtropical highland climate (Köppen Cwb): a dry winter and a wetter summer.
The warmest month is October, when afternoons average 25° and nights 13°. July is the coolest month, with highs of 18° and lows of 6°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 7°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 915 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. December is the wettest month (188 mm, 22 wet days) and August the driest (2 mm, 0 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 11% in August to 51% in January.
Compared with Harare, the capital, Marondera is 1.9° cooler on a October afternoon and receives more precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 25° · October
- Coldest nights
- 6° · July
- Wettest month
- December
- Driest month
- August
- Clearest skies
- August · 11% cloud
- Longest day
- 13 h 13 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 | 23° | 23° | 23° | 22° | 20° | 18° | 18° | 21° | 24° | 25° | 25° | 23° |
| Average low | 15° | 14° | 14° | 12° | 9° | 7° | 6° | 7° | 10° | 13° | 14° | 14° |
| Precipitation | 230 mm | 172 mm | 116 mm | 47 mm | 10 mm | 4 mm | 3 mm | 2 mm | 5 mm | 42 mm | 96 mm | 188 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 21.4 | 18.4 | 16 | 7.7 | 2 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 1.6 | 6.1 | 14.4 | 22 |
| Cloud cover | 51% | 46% | 35% | 22% | 17% | 16% | 16% | 11% | 12% | 19% | 35% | 51% |
| Daylight | 13h 06 | 12h 41 | 12h 13 | 11h 41 | 11h 16 | 11h 03 | 11h 08 | 11h 29 | 11h 59 | 12h 29 | 12h 58 | 13h 13 |
| Month score | 58 | 60 | 65 | 82 | 95 | 98 | 97 | 100 | 96 | 84 | 65 | 58 |
ivMonth by month
Marondera in every month
January58
23° / 15°
230 mm · 21.4 wet days
February60
23° / 14°
172 mm · 18.4 wet days
March65
23° / 14°
116 mm · 16 wet days
April82
22° / 12°
47 mm · 7.7 wet days
May95
20° / 9°
10 mm · 2 wet days
June98
18° / 7°
4 mm · 0.8 wet day
July97
18° / 6°
3 mm · 1.1 wet day
August100
21° / 7°
2 mm · 0.1 wet days
September96
24° / 10°
5 mm · 1.6 wet days
October84
25° / 13°
42 mm · 6.1 wet days
November65
25° / 14°
96 mm · 14.4 wet days
December58
23° / 14°
188 mm · 22 wet days