Climate
Primarily due to its high altitude, Lusaka features a humid subtropical climate. Its coldest month, July, has a monthly average temperature of 16°C, a couple of degrees shy of what would constitute a tropical climate, specifically a tropical savanna climate. Lusaka features a relatively warm climate, typically with warm (but not hot) summers and very mild “winters”. The city’s warmest month, October, sees monthly average high temperatures at around 32°C. Lusaka features a wet season and a dry season with the dry season predominating the year, lasting from October through April.
| Climate data for Lusaka | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 39.6 (103.3) |
36.4 (97.5) |
33.6 (92.5) |
33.0 (91.4) |
32.0 (89.6) |
29.9 (85.8) |
29.7 (85.5) |
33.5 (92.3) |
38.5 (101.3) |
37.2 (99.0) |
38.6 (101.5) |
33.9 (93.0) |
39.6 (103.3) |
| Average high °C (°F) | 27.4 (81.3) |
27.4 (81.3) |
27.5 (81.5) |
27.1 (80.8) |
25.8 (78.4) |
23.8 (74.8) |
24.0 (75.2) |
26.5 (79.7) |
30.3 (86.5) |
31.7 (89.1) |
30.4 (86.7) |
27.7 (81.9) |
27.5 (81.5) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 21.5 (70.7) |
21.5 (70.7) |
21.1 (70.0) |
19.9 (67.8) |
17.4 (63.3) |
15.2 (59.4) |
14.9 (58.8) |
17.3 (63.1) |
21.3 (70.3) |
23.5 (74.3) |
23.4 (74.1) |
21.7 (71.1) |
19.9 (67.8) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 17.6 (63.7) |
17.4 (63.3) |
16.4 (61.5) |
14.0 (57.2) |
10.7 (51.3) |
7.8 (46.0) |
7.2 (45.0) |
9.2 (48.6) |
12.9 (55.2) |
16.2 (61.2) |
17.4 (63.3) |
17.8 (64.0) |
13.7 (56.7) |
| Record low °C (°F) | 13.0 (55.4) |
12.9 (55.2) |
10.0 (50.0) |
8.0 (46.4) |
5.4 (41.7) |
0.2 (32.4) |
0.7 (33.3) |
2.8 (37.0) |
5.8 (42.4) |
9.0 (48.2) |
10.8 (51.4) |
10.4 (50.7) |
0.2 (32.4) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 245.4 (9.661) |
185.9 (7.319) |
95.0 (3.74) |
34.7 (1.366) |
3.1 (0.122) |
0.0 (0) |
0.1 (0.004) |
0.4 (0.016) |
1.7 (0.067) |
18.4 (0.724) |
89.3 (3.516) |
208.1 (8.193) |
882.1 (34.728) |
| % humidity | 82.3 | 82.5 | 80.7 | 75.8 | 69.3 | 65.2 | 61.1 | 53.6 | 46.3 | 48.6 | 60.2 | 78.6 | 67.0 |
| Avg. precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) | 18 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 16 | 72 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 176.7 | 168.0 | 220.1 | 246.0 | 275.9 | 270.0 | 294.5 | 303.8 | 291.0 | 272.8 | 234.0 | 182.9 | 2,935.7 |
| Source: NOAA | |||||||||||||
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