Gurúè climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Gurúè?

Gurúè has a humid subtropical, dry winter climate (Köppen Cwa). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 21.0 °C and it receives 1,530 mm of precipitation per year.

Q: What is the hottest day ever recorded in Gurúè?

The hottest day measured in Gurúè between 1940 and 2025 was 25 November 2020, reaching 37.5 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Gurúè?

The coldest day measured in Gurúè between 1940 and 2025 was 26 July 1975, at 6.6 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Gurúè?

Almost never: Gurúè sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Q: Has the climate of Gurúè warmed?

Yes: Gurúè warmed by +0.9 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Gurúè?

The wettest day measured in Gurúè between 1940 and 2025 was 13 January 2015, with 187 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Gurúè?

The windiest day measured in Gurúè between 1940 and 2025 was 11 March 2022, with winds reaching 35.3 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Gurúè?

The warmest month in Gurúè is November (24.0 °C on average); the coldest is July (16.7 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Gurúè?

Gurúè receives on average 1,530 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 164 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Gurúè?

Gurúè gets on average 10.6 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,869 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Gurúè (Mozambique) has a humid subtropical, dry winter climate (Cwa) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 21.0 °C and it receives 1,530 mm of precipitation per year.

These figures are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme.

The warmest month is November (24.0 °C on average) and the coldest is July (16.7 °C). Rainfall peaks in January.

Gurúè averages 0 frost days, 48 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 164 rainy days per year.

Gurúè has warmed by +0.9 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.10 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The hottest day of the period reached 37.5 °C (on 25 November 2020) and the coldest 6.6 °C (on 26 July 1975).

Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.

Climate normals · ERA5

GurúèZambezia Province

coords: -15.47°, 36.98°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

CwaHumid subtropical, dry winterWarmest monthNovemberColdest monthJulyWettest monthJanuaryDriest monthSeptember

Mean daily temperature

21.0°C

Average daily high

26.0°C

Average daily low

17.0°C

Annual rainfall

1,530mm

Sunshine / day

10.6h

Mean relative humidity

75%

Average peak wind

11.1km/h

Seasonal range

7.3°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

48 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

164 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.0 cm

Average feels-like high

28.1 °C

Average feels-like low

18.0 °C

Average peak gust

29.0 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

63 d/yr

Solar radiation

19.3 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+0.9 °C

since 1940

+0.1 °C per decade · r² = 0.33 · p = < 0.001

19402025

Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).

A climograph overlays rainfall (bars) and temperature (line): the standard reading in climatology, where you can see at a glance whether the warm season is also the dry one.

Records for the period

Hottest day

37.5 °C

25 November 2020

Coldest day

6.6 °C

26 July 1975

Wettest day

187 mm

13 January 2015

Windiest day

35.3 km/h

11 March 2022

Strongest gust

85.3 km/h

12 March 2022

Hottest feels-like

39.7 °C

24 November 2021

Coldest feels-like

5.0 °C

26 July 1975

Sunniest day

12.9 h

27 December 2024

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days
2025	34.9 °C27 October 2025	10.5 °C23 July 2025	21.6 °C	2,302 mm	45
2024	34.5 °C29 October 2024	10.7 °C13 June 2024	21.9 °C	1,245 mm	78
2023	35.8 °C14 October 2023	9.9 °C28 June 2023	22.1 °C	1,678 mm	83
2022	34.5 °C28 October 2022	10.6 °C28 July 2022	21.4 °C	1,972 mm	53
2021	36.3 °C9 November 2021	10.5 °C25 July 2021	21.8 °C	1,280 mm	90
2020	37.5 °C25 November 2020	8.6 °C10 August 2020	21.7 °C	1,603 mm	79
2019	35.0 °C29 October 2019	7.8 °C24 July 2019	21.8 °C	1,456 mm	67
2018	32.7 °C26 September 2018	10.8 °C2 July 2018	21.3 °C	1,563 mm	38
2017	35.2 °C18 October 2017	10.3 °C15 July 2017	21.6 °C	1,536 mm	49
2016	34.2 °C15 November 2016	10.5 °C2 August 2016	21.8 °C	1,372 mm	84
2015	35.4 °C2 November 2015	9.7 °C5 August 2015	21.8 °C	1,771 mm	70
2014	34.0 °C9 October 2014	9.7 °C28 August 2014	21.2 °C	1,563 mm	53
2013	35.4 °C16 November 2013	10.6 °C15 July 2013	21.2 °C	1,461 mm	52
2012	35.8 °C19 October 2012	8.5 °C19 July 2012	21.4 °C	1,314 mm	55
2011	35.8 °C1 November 2011	8.9 °C13 August 2011	21.3 °C	1,317 mm	52
2010	35.3 °C12 October 2010	8.4 °C16 August 2010	21.6 °C	1,429 mm	66
2009	33.5 °C10 November 2009	9.2 °C23 July 2009	21.2 °C	1,577 mm	53
2008	34.6 °C4 November 2008	9.6 °C3 July 2008	21.1 °C	1,485 mm	68
2007	34.6 °C24 September 2007	9.3 °C26 June 2007	21.3 °C	1,550 mm	54
2006	34.8 °C3 November 2006	8.9 °C6 June 2006	21.2 °C	1,667 mm	42
2005	34.4 °C17 November 2005	11.0 °C18 July 2005	21.7 °C	1,025 mm	69
2004	33.3 °C21 November 2004	9.5 °C15 July 2004	20.8 °C	1,606 mm	24
2003	33.1 °C6 November 2003	10.1 °C18 August 2003	21.1 °C	1,695 mm	56
2002	33.8 °C4 November 2002	10.0 °C14 July 2002	21.2 °C	1,245 mm	35
2001	35.2 °C21 November 2001	10.8 °C19 June 2001	21.5 °C	1,438 mm	73
2000	32.9 °C25 October 2000	9.2 °C19 July 2000	20.9 °C	1,672 mm	23
1999	32.2 °C26 November 1999	9.8 °C25 June 1999	20.6 °C	1,464 mm	31
1998	32.8 °C4 November 1998	10.7 °C17 July 1998	21.4 °C	1,267 mm	48
1997	34.5 °C15 November 1997	10.9 °C3 August 1997	21.1 °C	1,920 mm	43
1996	34.5 °C21 November 1996	9.0 °C12 July 1996	21.2 °C	1,531 mm	59
1995	35.3 °C26 October 1995	8.0 °C11 July 1995	21.5 °C	1,263 mm	68
1994	36.4 °C24 November 1994	9.7 °C1 July 1994	20.9 °C	1,251 mm	51
1993	33.3 °C23 October 1993	10.6 °C14 August 1993	21.3 °C	1,382 mm	50
1992	33.8 °C31 October 1992	8.1 °C13 August 1992	21.6 °C	894 mm	75
1991	34.9 °C1 November 1991	9.6 °C22 July 1991	20.9 °C	1,416 mm	31
1990	33.5 °C16 October 1990	10.0 °C25 July 1990	21.1 °C	1,126 mm	57
1989	32.8 °C23 October 1989	10.1 °C23 July 1989	20.6 °C	1,679 mm	28
1988	32.7 °C19 October 1988	10.8 °C19 June 1988	20.8 °C	1,542 mm	27
1987	33.3 °C20 November 1987	9.1 °C23 July 1987	21.2 °C	1,264 mm	52
1986	32.3 °C7 October 1986	9.6 °C16 August 1986	20.4 °C	1,631 mm	12
1985	33.3 °C4 November 1985	6.6 °C15 July 1985	20.4 °C	1,743 mm	14
1984	33.1 °C16 October 1984	10.1 °C31 August 1984	20.6 °C	1,648 mm	32
1983	34.1 °C11 November 1983	9.0 °C21 August 1983	21.2 °C	1,281 mm	41
1982	31.7 °C21 November 1982	9.2 °C18 May 1982	20.5 °C	1,498 mm	19
1981	32.6 °C5 October 1981	8.7 °C27 June 1981	20.2 °C	1,581 mm	23
1980	31.8 °C12 February 1980	10.0 °C22 June 1980	20.4 °C	1,332 mm	31
1979	33.9 °C1 October 1979	9.0 °C26 June 1979	20.8 °C	1,434 mm	46
1978	33.2 °C29 September 1978	8.0 °C15 June 1978	20.8 °C	2,164 mm	34
1977	33.7 °C22 October 1977	9.4 °C11 August 1977	20.9 °C	1,444 mm	32
1976	33.3 °C2 November 1976	7.4 °C19 July 1976	20.3 °C	1,824 mm	37
1975	32.0 °C26 October 1975	6.6 °C26 July 1975	20.3 °C	1,178 mm	24
1974	33.2 °C12 November 1974	9.1 °C31 July 1974	20.3 °C	2,034 mm	26
1973	33.0 °C5 November 1973	10.2 °C11 July 1973	20.7 °C	1,480 mm	44
1972	32.8 °C4 October 1972	8.7 °C18 June 1972	20.3 °C	1,541 mm	19
1971	31.1 °C20 November 1971	9.1 °C16 July 1971	20.5 °C	1,519 mm	17
1970	31.4 °C5 March 1970	8.6 °C6 July 1970	20.8 °C	1,598 mm	28
1969	34.3 °C27 November 1969	8.5 °C8 September 1969	21.1 °C	1,573 mm	49
1968	33.6 °C3 October 1968	7.0 °C17 June 1968	20.5 °C	1,256 mm	32
1967	33.6 °C7 October 1967	8.3 °C17 July 1967	20.4 °C	1,538 mm	20
1966	33.5 °C7 November 1966	9.6 °C23 August 1966	21.0 °C	1,185 mm	47
1965	32.8 °C20 November 1965	7.7 °C24 June 1965	20.0 °C	1,461 mm	25
1964	33.9 °C17 November 1964	7.5 °C28 July 1964	20.5 °C	1,222 mm	40
1963	33.5 °C8 October 1963	8.4 °C13 August 1963	20.7 °C	1,592 mm	29
1962	33.6 °C21 November 1962	9.8 °C6 June 1962	21.0 °C	1,498 mm	44
1961	34.4 °C28 October 1961	10.4 °C11 August 1961	20.8 °C	1,953 mm	24
1960	33.5 °C9 December 1960	9.4 °C10 August 1960	20.7 °C	1,222 mm	62
1959	33.2 °C1 November 1959	10.9 °C6 August 1959	20.5 °C	1,719 mm	19
1958	33.0 °C17 October 1958	8.6 °C29 July 1958	21.2 °C	1,533 mm	56
1957	36.2 °C12 November 1957	7.5 °C25 June 1957	21.3 °C	1,753 mm	78
1956	33.9 °C3 November 1956	8.0 °C31 July 1956	20.7 °C	1,822 mm	42
1955	34.2 °C21 October 1955	8.2 °C12 August 1955	20.4 °C	1,800 mm	40
1954	35.4 °C27 October 1954	8.3 °C25 July 1954	20.7 °C	1,376 mm	42
1953	35.9 °C9 November 1953	7.1 °C3 August 1953	20.7 °C	1,983 mm	47
1952	35.5 °C3 November 1952	9.1 °C27 June 1952	21.0 °C	2,024 mm	62
1951	36.1 °C29 October 1951	7.3 °C25 July 1951	21.3 °C	1,123 mm	64
1950	35.2 °C24 October 1950	8.7 °C19 August 1950	20.5 °C	2,077 mm	37
1949	34.3 °C29 November 1949	8.3 °C10 August 1949	21.3 °C	1,336 mm	86
1948	34.6 °C13 October 1948	8.6 °C12 July 1948	20.9 °C	2,249 mm	49
1947	34.4 °C28 October 1947	8.8 °C8 July 1947	21.1 °C	1,717 mm	71
1946	34.7 °C31 October 1946	8.1 °C21 June 1946	20.7 °C	1,756 mm	38
1945	34.7 °C8 November 1945	9.2 °C21 June 1945	20.8 °C	1,655 mm	63
1944	34.1 °C18 October 1944	8.5 °C8 July 1944	20.9 °C	1,269 mm	62
1943	37.1 °C1 December 1943	8.3 °C28 June 1943	20.9 °C	1,280 mm	75
1942	35.4 °C7 November 1942	10.0 °C3 August 1942	21.2 °C	1,250 mm	62
1941	35.5 °C24 September 1941	8.9 °C22 June 1941	21.2 °C	946 mm	78
1940	33.6 °C20 November 1940	8.7 °C10 August 1940	20.8 °C	1,614 mm	46

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

A specific year

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

26.2 °C

+0.2 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

45 d/yr

-3

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

2302 mm

+772 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	27.6 °C	+0.4 °C	499 mm	+165 mm
Feb	27.9 °C	+0.8 °C	363 mm	+99 mm
Mar	27.1 °C	+0.5 °C	215 mm	-8 mm
Apr	26.6 °C	+1.2 °C	90 mm	-11 mm
May	23.5 °C	-0.4 °C	142 mm	+104 mm
Jun	23.0 °C	+1.0 °C	41 mm	+8 mm
Jul	21.5 °C	-0.2 °C	37 mm	+4 mm
Aug	24.2 °C	+0.1 °C	19 mm	-3 mm
Sep	28.8 °C	+1.3 °C	3 mm	-13 mm
Oct	29.2 °C	-0.5 °C	24 mm	-16 mm
Nov	28.4 °C	-1.0 °C	213 mm	+90 mm
Dec	26.5 °C	-1.4 °C	657 mm	+354 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

34.9 °C

27 Oct 2025

Coldest day

10.5 °C

23 Jul 2025

Wettest day

84.0 mm

10 Mar 2025

Windiest day

34.6 km/h

10 Mar 2025

Strongest gust

84.6 km/h

10 Mar 2025

Hottest feels-like

38.2 °C

29 Nov 2025

Coldest feels-like

10.0 °C

23 Jul 2025

Sunniest day

12.8 h

7 Jan 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Gurúè?

Gurúè has a humid subtropical, dry winter climate (Köppen Cwa). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 21.0 °C and it receives 1,530 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Gurúè?

The hottest day measured in Gurúè between 1940 and 2025 was 25 November 2020, reaching 37.5 °C.

What is the coldest day in Gurúè?

The coldest day measured in Gurúè between 1940 and 2025 was 26 July 1975, at 6.6 °C.

Does it snow in Gurúè?

Almost never: Gurúè sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Has the climate of Gurúè warmed?

Yes: Gurúè warmed by +0.9 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Gurúè?

The wettest day measured in Gurúè between 1940 and 2025 was 13 January 2015, with 187 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Gurúè?

The windiest day measured in Gurúè between 1940 and 2025 was 11 March 2022, with winds reaching 35.3 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Gurúè?

The warmest month in Gurúè is November (24.0 °C on average); the coldest is July (16.7 °C).

How much does it rain in Gurúè?

Gurúè receives on average 1,530 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 164 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Gurúè?

Gurúè gets on average 10.6 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,869 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Are there tropical nights in Gurúè?

Yes: Gurúè has on average 63 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Gurúè?

In Gurúè, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 39.7 °C on 24 November 2021, and the lowest was 5.0 °C on 26 July 1975.

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