Climate
Livingstone has a humid subtropical climate with hot and rainy wet seasons and very hot pre-wet seasons and mild dry seasons with large temperature differences between day and night.
| Climate data for Livingstone, Zambia | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Average high °C (°F) | 30.0 (86.0) |
29.7 (85.5) |
30.3 (86.5) |
29.9 (85.8) |
28.0 (82.4) |
25.6 (78.1) |
25.5 (77.9) |
28.4 (83.1) |
32.5 (90.5) |
34.0 (93.2) |
32.6 (90.7) |
30.4 (86.7) |
29.74 (85.54) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 23.6 (74.5) |
23.2 (73.8) |
23.1 (73.6) |
21.9 (71.4) |
18.9 (66.0) |
16.0 (60.8) |
16.1 (61.0) |
19.3 (66.7) |
23.9 (75.0) |
26.2 (79.2) |
25.1 (77.2) |
23.6 (74.5) |
21.74 (71.14) |
| Average low °C (°F) | 18.9 (66.0) |
18.6 (65.5) |
17.6 (63.7) |
14.8 (58.6) |
10.1 (50.2) |
6.7 (44.1) |
6.3 (43.3) |
9.2 (48.6) |
14.2 (57.6) |
18.2 (64.8) |
19.1 (66.4) |
18.9 (66.0) |
14.38 (57.89) |
| Precipitation mm (inches) | 173.7 (6.839) |
141.1 (5.555) |
79.5 (3.13) |
24.0 (0.945) |
6.0 (0.236) |
1.5 (0.059) |
0.1 (0.004) |
0.3 (0.012) |
1.6 (0.063) |
24.8 (0.976) |
70.4 (2.772) |
169.1 (6.657) |
692.1 (27.248) |
| Avg. precipitation days | 16 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 16 | 73 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 213.9 | 197.7 | 251.1 | 273.0 | 303.8 | 288.0 | 310.0 | 319.3 | 297.0 | 279.0 | 228.0 | 207.7 | 3,168.5 |
| Source: Hong Kong Observatory, | |||||||||||||
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