Maposeni climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Maposeni?

Maposeni has a hot-summer mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 20.7 °C and it receives 1,289 mm of precipitation per year.

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

The hottest day measured in Maposeni between 1940 and 2025 was 20 November 2019, reaching 34.6 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Maposeni?

The coldest day measured in Maposeni between 1940 and 2025 was 24 June 1968, at 5.8 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Maposeni?

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

Q: Has the climate of Maposeni warmed?

Yes: Maposeni warmed by +1.1 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Maposeni?

The wettest day measured in Maposeni between 1940 and 2025 was 29 January 1957, with 86 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Maposeni?

The windiest day measured in Maposeni between 1940 and 2025 was 13 March 1941, with winds reaching 28.8 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Maposeni?

The warmest month in Maposeni is November (23.6 °C on average); the coldest is July (17.2 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Maposeni?

Maposeni receives on average 1,289 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 156 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Maposeni?

Maposeni gets on average 10.5 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,833 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Maposeni (Tanzania) has a hot-summer mediterranean climate (Csa) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 20.7 °C and it receives 1,289 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 (23.6 °C on average) and the coldest is July (17.2 °C). Rainfall peaks in March.

Maposeni averages 0 frost days, 33 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 156 rainy days per year.

Maposeni has warmed by +1.1 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.13 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The hottest day of the period reached 34.6 °C (on 20 November 2019) and the coldest 5.8 °C (on 24 June 1968).

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

MaposeniRuvuma

coords: -10.58°, 35.40°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

CsaHot-summer MediterraneanWarmest monthNovemberColdest monthJulyWettest monthMarchDriest monthJuly

Mean daily temperature

20.7°C

Average daily high

26.2°C

Average daily low

16.3°C

Annual rainfall

1,289mm

Sunshine / day

10.5h

Mean relative humidity

73%

Average peak wind

11.7km/h

Seasonal range

6.4°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

33 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

156 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.0 cm

Average feels-like high

27.9 °C

Average feels-like low

16.9 °C

Average peak gust

31.0 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

17 d/yr

Solar radiation

19.3 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+1.1 °C

since 1940

+0.1 °C per decade · r² = 0.51 · 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

34.6 °C

20 November 2019

Coldest day

5.8 °C

24 June 1968

Wettest day

86 mm

29 January 1957

Windiest day

28.8 km/h

13 March 1941

Strongest gust

65.2 km/h

13 March 1941

Hottest feels-like

37.8 °C

13 December 2023

Coldest feels-like

3.5 °C

24 June 1968

Sunniest day

12.6 h

29 December 2024

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days
2025	33.8 °C5 December 2025	8.4 °C5 August 2025	21.3 °C	1,225 mm	48
2024	33.5 °C29 October 2024	9.1 °C15 June 2024	21.7 °C	1,648 mm	56
2023	33.2 °C24 October 2023	9.8 °C24 June 2023	21.6 °C	1,349 mm	51
2022	32.1 °C14 November 2022	9.9 °C4 June 2022	20.9 °C	1,400 mm	37
2021	34.5 °C24 November 2021	10.2 °C29 July 2021	21.3 °C	1,068 mm	61
2020	33.1 °C6 October 2020	10.3 °C2 August 2020	21.8 °C	1,470 mm	53
2019	34.6 °C20 November 2019	8.0 °C24 July 2019	21.6 °C	1,339 mm	35
2018	33.3 °C8 November 2018	8.9 °C9 June 2018	21.2 °C	1,313 mm	26
2017	33.5 °C17 November 2017	10.1 °C17 July 2017	21.3 °C	1,459 mm	40
2016	33.5 °C2 November 2016	8.7 °C10 June 2016	21.4 °C	1,037 mm	56
2015	33.0 °C22 November 2015	9.7 °C11 July 2015	21.5 °C	1,233 mm	40
2014	32.8 °C17 October 2014	9.0 °C13 July 2014	21.1 °C	1,271 mm	33
2013	33.3 °C16 November 2013	9.3 °C3 June 2013	21.4 °C	1,077 mm	45
2012	33.0 °C26 November 2012	8.1 °C20 July 2012	21.2 °C	1,199 mm	45
2011	34.1 °C26 October 2011	6.9 °C6 July 2011	21.1 °C	1,520 mm	46
2010	33.0 °C3 December 2010	8.6 °C16 August 2010	21.2 °C	1,072 mm	48
2009	32.0 °C10 October 2009	8.3 °C22 July 2009	20.9 °C	1,346 mm	26
2008	32.6 °C4 November 2008	7.8 °C2 July 2008	20.6 °C	1,256 mm	30
2007	33.0 °C25 November 2007	8.4 °C19 June 2007	20.9 °C	1,099 mm	33
2006	32.7 °C12 November 2006	8.9 °C8 August 2006	20.9 °C	1,468 mm	28
2005	33.0 °C15 November 2005	9.6 °C1 August 2005	21.2 °C	906 mm	53
2004	33.9 °C21 November 2004	7.9 °C9 July 2004	20.6 °C	1,171 mm	16
2003	33.1 °C7 November 2003	7.8 °C3 August 2003	21.0 °C	887 mm	44
2002	33.8 °C6 November 2002	9.8 °C18 June 2002	20.7 °C	1,475 mm	31
2001	32.5 °C27 November 2001	8.6 °C16 July 2001	20.7 °C	1,057 mm	47
2000	32.6 °C19 November 2000	9.1 °C7 July 2000	20.6 °C	1,178 mm	26
1999	33.7 °C25 October 1999	9.2 °C29 June 1999	20.5 °C	1,303 mm	33
1998	33.4 °C19 December 1998	9.4 °C14 June 1998	21.3 °C	1,098 mm	50
1997	33.2 °C18 November 1997	9.5 °C28 July 1997	21.0 °C	1,284 mm	39
1996	33.2 °C21 November 1996	6.5 °C1 July 1996	20.6 °C	1,266 mm	43
1995	33.6 °C17 November 1995	8.0 °C4 July 1995	21.1 °C	1,250 mm	51
1994	33.8 °C1 January 1994	8.5 °C13 June 1994	21.0 °C	1,270 mm	41
1993	34.0 °C1 December 1993	8.1 °C17 August 1993	20.9 °C	985 mm	56
1992	32.2 °C1 November 1992	7.1 °C19 July 1992	20.8 °C	964 mm	21
1991	32.2 °C2 November 1991	8.9 °C11 July 1991	20.6 °C	1,689 mm	23
1990	31.8 °C25 October 1990	8.6 °C16 July 1990	20.9 °C	1,125 mm	28
1989	32.7 °C11 November 1989	7.9 °C10 July 1989	20.5 °C	1,445 mm	23
1988	31.5 °C19 October 1988	9.3 °C9 August 1988	21.0 °C	1,144 mm	21
1987	33.6 °C8 December 1987	7.7 °C11 July 1987	21.1 °C	1,065 mm	41
1986	31.5 °C25 October 1986	7.4 °C22 July 1986	20.2 °C	1,476 mm	4
1985	31.6 °C3 November 1985	6.8 °C2 August 1985	20.1 °C	1,076 mm	8
1984	31.5 °C16 October 1984	7.5 °C21 August 1984	20.1 °C	1,216 mm	7
1983	33.3 °C14 November 1983	7.3 °C21 July 1983	20.8 °C	1,212 mm	30
1982	31.1 °C7 November 1982	7.8 °C10 June 1982	20.2 °C	1,506 mm	7
1981	32.3 °C27 November 1981	7.1 °C30 June 1981	20.2 °C	1,167 mm	20
1980	31.5 °C27 October 1980	7.4 °C16 June 1980	20.3 °C	1,295 mm	11
1979	33.1 °C1 November 1979	8.0 °C29 June 1979	20.5 °C	1,651 mm	40
1978	32.2 °C25 October 1978	7.4 °C17 July 1978	20.4 °C	1,551 mm	18
1977	34.3 °C23 October 1977	8.8 °C6 July 1977	20.6 °C	1,644 mm	18
1976	33.3 °C1 December 1976	7.6 °C19 July 1976	20.5 °C	1,343 mm	49
1975	33.3 °C26 October 1975	6.1 °C26 July 1975	20.2 °C	1,643 mm	18
1974	33.1 °C3 December 1974	9.1 °C31 July 1974	20.2 °C	1,500 mm	20
1973	32.6 °C6 November 1973	9.1 °C16 July 1973	20.7 °C	1,429 mm	28
1972	31.4 °C16 October 1972	8.1 °C5 July 1972	20.3 °C	1,769 mm	12
1971	32.5 °C21 November 1971	7.0 °C12 June 1971	19.9 °C	1,381 mm	17
1970	32.9 °C18 November 1970	9.2 °C9 June 1970	20.5 °C	1,384 mm	23
1969	32.4 °C31 October 1969	7.4 °C11 July 1969	20.5 °C	1,263 mm	28
1968	32.0 °C4 October 1968	5.8 °C24 June 1968	20.3 °C	1,150 mm	8
1967	30.8 °C18 November 1967	8.1 °C20 July 1967	20.2 °C	1,588 mm	5
1966	31.6 °C19 November 1966	8.7 °C24 August 1966	20.5 °C	1,106 mm	14
1965	31.4 °C20 November 1965	6.8 °C7 July 1965	19.8 °C	1,474 mm	6
1964	31.9 °C22 November 1964	8.6 °C4 August 1964	20.1 °C	1,185 mm	10
1963	31.3 °C28 October 1963	8.1 °C7 June 1963	20.1 °C	1,478 mm	16
1962	33.1 °C23 November 1962	9.1 °C25 June 1962	20.4 °C	1,303 mm	33
1961	31.6 °C27 October 1961	9.5 °C3 June 1961	20.5 °C	1,832 mm	16
1960	33.2 °C8 December 1960	9.3 °C4 August 1960	20.4 °C	1,248 mm	36
1959	32.4 °C2 November 1959	10.0 °C6 June 1959	20.6 °C	1,424 mm	16
1958	32.2 °C29 October 1958	8.2 °C19 July 1958	20.8 °C	1,162 mm	34
1957	32.3 °C16 November 1957	8.0 °C22 July 1957	20.3 °C	1,826 mm	33
1956	33.2 °C25 November 1956	7.7 °C13 July 1956	20.4 °C	1,240 mm	60
1955	32.1 °C19 October 1955	6.9 °C11 August 1955	20.2 °C	1,483 mm	48
1954	33.0 °C27 October 1954	9.1 °C14 June 1954	20.5 °C	1,007 mm	38
1953	32.7 °C9 November 1953	8.3 °C14 June 1953	20.3 °C	1,629 mm	33
1952	32.2 °C9 November 1952	8.6 °C15 July 1952	20.5 °C	1,074 mm	22
1951	32.8 °C29 October 1951	8.3 °C24 July 1951	20.4 °C	1,426 mm	41
1950	32.6 °C22 October 1950	9.0 °C20 August 1950	20.0 °C	1,328 mm	16
1949	32.6 °C29 November 1949	8.5 °C22 June 1949	20.6 °C	890 mm	41
1948	33.3 °C12 November 1948	9.1 °C30 June 1948	21.1 °C	945 mm	75
1947	32.4 °C29 November 1947	8.7 °C28 June 1947	20.5 °C	1,089 mm	45
1946	33.0 °C11 October 1946	7.9 °C10 June 1946	20.5 °C	1,008 mm	46
1945	32.8 °C24 November 1945	8.4 °C3 July 1945	20.1 °C	1,276 mm	43
1944	32.9 °C24 October 1944	7.6 °C21 May 1944	20.4 °C	1,134 mm	45
1943	34.3 °C26 November 1943	8.1 °C10 June 1943	20.8 °C	874 mm	103
1942	33.6 °C9 November 1942	8.3 °C28 July 1942	20.4 °C	1,139 mm	48
1941	32.6 °C21 October 1941	9.5 °C14 July 1941	20.3 °C	1,460 mm	34
1940	32.9 °C30 December 1940	9.3 °C6 June 1940	20.5 °C	1,132 mm	31

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

A specific year

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

26.8 °C

+0.6 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

48 d/yr

+15

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

1225 mm

-64 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	27.5 °C	+0.6 °C	208 mm	-42 mm
Feb	28.8 °C	+1.9 °C	121 mm	-104 mm
Mar	26.6 °C	+0.3 °C	360 mm	+75 mm
Apr	26.0 °C	+0.8 °C	167 mm	+7 mm
May	24.1 °C	-0.1 °C	89 mm	+55 mm
Jun	23.7 °C	+0.3 °C	9 mm	+2 mm
Jul	22.9 °C	-0.3 °C	8 mm	+1 mm
Aug	24.9 °C	+0.3 °C	4 mm	-4 mm
Sep	28.6 °C	+1.6 °C	4 mm	-4 mm
Oct	29.4 °C	+0.3 °C	9 mm	-9 mm
Nov	30.1 °C	+0.7 °C	70 mm	-13 mm
Dec	29.1 °C	+1.2 °C	177 mm	-28 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

33.8 °C

5 Dec 2025

Coldest day

8.4 °C

5 Aug 2025

Wettest day

33.3 mm

15 Mar 2025

Windiest day

21.3 km/h

14 May 2025

Strongest gust

47.2 km/h

25 Jan 2025

Hottest feels-like

36.1 °C

29 Nov 2025

Coldest feels-like

6.6 °C

5 Aug 2025

Sunniest day

12.6 h

26 Nov 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Maposeni?

Maposeni has a hot-summer mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 20.7 °C and it receives 1,289 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Maposeni?

The hottest day measured in Maposeni between 1940 and 2025 was 20 November 2019, reaching 34.6 °C.

What is the coldest day in Maposeni?

The coldest day measured in Maposeni between 1940 and 2025 was 24 June 1968, at 5.8 °C.

Does it snow in Maposeni?

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

Has the climate of Maposeni warmed?

Yes: Maposeni warmed by +1.1 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Maposeni?

The wettest day measured in Maposeni between 1940 and 2025 was 29 January 1957, with 86 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Maposeni?

The windiest day measured in Maposeni between 1940 and 2025 was 13 March 1941, with winds reaching 28.8 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Maposeni?

The warmest month in Maposeni is November (23.6 °C on average); the coldest is July (17.2 °C).

How much does it rain in Maposeni?

Maposeni receives on average 1,289 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 156 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Maposeni?

Maposeni gets on average 10.5 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,833 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Are there tropical nights in Maposeni?

Yes: Maposeni has on average 17 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Maposeni?

In Maposeni, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 37.8 °C on 13 December 2023, and the lowest was 3.5 °C on 24 June 1968.

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