WEATHER · CLIMATE NORMALS · 1991–2020
Maputo Climate — Averages by Month
What the weather in Maputo, MZaverages across a standard 30-year period. Each month's figure is the 1991–2020 mean temperature and total rainfall from the ERA5 reanalysis — the long-run normal a place settles around, not a forecast for any particular day.
Month-by-month normals
| Month | Avg temperature | Avg rainfall |
|---|---|---|
| January | 25.9 °C | 121.9 mm · wettest |
| February | 26.1 °C · warmest | 101.6 mm |
| March | 25.5 °C | 79.8 mm |
| April | 23.6 °C | 47.3 mm |
| May | 21.7 °C | 25.5 mm |
| June | 19.8 °C | 14.8 mm |
| July | 19.3 °C · coldest | 14.3 mm |
| August | 20.5 °C | 15.7 mm |
| September | 22.1 °C | 34.2 mm |
| October | 22.8 °C | 55.8 mm |
| November | 24.1 °C | 96.4 mm |
| December | 25.3 °C | 108.6 mm |
How to read these numbers
These are reanalysis normals, not readings from a single weather station. They come from the ERA5 0.25° (~25 km) global reanalysis grid, sampled at the grid cell nearest Maputo — centred at 26.00°S, 32.50°E. A reanalysis blends observations with a physics model onto an even grid, so a coastal or mountain city's cell can read a little cooler, warmer, wetter or drier than the city centre itself. The month-to-month shape — when it's hot, when it rains — is what these normals capture best.
“Normal” means the 1991–2020 average, the current World Meteorological Organization standard period. A normal is what a place tends toward over decades — any single day, month or year can and will depart from it.