Masaka climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Masaka?

Masaka has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 20.9 °C and it receives 1,312 mm of precipitation per year.

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

The hottest day measured in Masaka between 1940 and 2025 was 23 February 2005, reaching 32.6 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Masaka?

The coldest day measured in Masaka between 1940 and 2025 was 18 September 1965, at 11.0 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Masaka?

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

Q: Has the climate of Masaka warmed?

Yes: Masaka warmed by +2.1 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Masaka?

The wettest day measured in Masaka between 1940 and 2025 was 20 February 1957, with 88 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Masaka?

The windiest day measured in Masaka between 1940 and 2025 was 18 July 2009, with winds reaching 30.3 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Masaka?

The warmest month in Masaka is February (21.5 °C on average); the coldest is July (20.4 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Masaka?

Masaka receives on average 1,312 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 247 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Masaka?

Masaka gets on average 10.3 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,760 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Masaka (Uganda) has a tropical savanna climate (Aw) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 20.9 °C and it receives 1,312 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 February (21.5 °C on average) and the coldest is July (20.4 °C). Rainfall peaks in April.

Masaka averages 0 frost days, 2 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 247 rainy days per year.

Masaka has warmed by +2.1 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.25 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The hottest day of the period reached 32.6 °C (on 23 February 2005) and the coldest 11.0 °C (on 18 September 1965).

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

MasakaCentral Region

coords: -0.33°, 31.73°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

AwTropical savannaWarmest monthFebruaryColdest monthJulyWettest monthAprilDriest monthJuly

Mean daily temperature

20.9°C

Average daily high

25.3°C

Average daily low

17.2°C

Annual rainfall

1,312mm

Sunshine / day

10.3h

Mean relative humidity

83%

Average peak wind

13.4km/h

Seasonal range

1.1°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

2 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

247 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.0 cm

Average feels-like high

28.2 °C

Average feels-like low

18.4 °C

Average peak gust

30.4 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

5 d/yr

Solar radiation

18.7 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+2.1 °C

since 1940

+0.3 °C per decade · r² = 0.74 · 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

32.6 °C

23 February 2005

Coldest day

11.0 °C

18 September 1965

Wettest day

88 mm

20 February 1957

Windiest day

30.3 km/h

18 July 2009

Strongest gust

59.4 km/h

18 July 2009

Hottest feels-like

36.0 °C

25 September 1997

Coldest feels-like

10.0 °C

18 September 1965

Sunniest day

12.0 h

3 January 1940

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days
2025	32.1 °C28 February 2025	14.9 °C21 September 2025	22.6 °C	813 mm	23
2024	31.3 °C16 September 2024	16.4 °C2 July 2024	22.9 °C	1,031 mm	10
2023	31.2 °C8 March 2023	16.2 °C29 March 2023	22.5 °C	1,111 mm	12
2022	31.7 °C27 January 2022	15.6 °C3 August 2022	22.3 °C	978 mm	14
2021	30.8 °C12 March 2021	13.8 °C25 August 2021	22.1 °C	839 mm	3
2020	30.9 °C21 January 2020	15.9 °C27 July 2020	22.0 °C	1,125 mm	4
2019	31.0 °C13 February 2019	15.3 °C5 August 2019	21.9 °C	1,280 mm	7
2018	31.9 °C18 February 2018	15.0 °C14 August 2018	21.9 °C	1,138 mm	8
2017	32.6 °C25 January 2017	14.9 °C10 July 2017	22.2 °C	1,069 mm	18
2016	32.0 °C15 March 2016	13.9 °C19 August 2016	22.4 °C	978 mm	18
2015	31.8 °C17 January 2015	14.2 °C6 July 2015	22.0 °C	1,034 mm	16
2014	31.9 °C16 February 2014	15.2 °C5 July 2014	21.6 °C	1,165 mm	11
2013	30.0 °C24 December 2013	14.8 °C15 July 2013	21.4 °C	1,100 mm	1
2012	31.0 °C23 January 2012	13.9 °C4 July 2012	21.3 °C	1,218 mm	5
2011	30.4 °C30 January 2011	14.7 °C7 July 2011	21.2 °C	1,248 mm	1
2010	31.1 °C2 February 2010	13.6 °C17 July 2010	21.5 °C	1,300 mm	2
2009	30.8 °C10 March 2009	14.4 °C20 July 2009	21.7 °C	993 mm	2
2008	30.5 °C24 December 2008	14.1 °C9 July 2008	21.2 °C	981 mm	2
2007	29.8 °C24 February 2007	14.0 °C24 August 2007	21.3 °C	1,112 mm	0
2006	31.6 °C12 February 2006	13.6 °C5 September 2006	21.4 °C	1,125 mm	5
2005	32.6 °C23 February 2005	13.2 °C14 July 2005	21.6 °C	1,146 mm	8
2004	30.5 °C14 February 2004	15.0 °C11 July 2004	21.5 °C	1,074 mm	4
2003	30.8 °C7 March 2003	15.0 °C13 July 2003	21.3 °C	918 mm	4
2002	29.6 °C23 February 2002	14.1 °C9 July 2002	21.1 °C	995 mm	0
2001	29.1 °C3 February 2001	14.1 °C25 June 2001	20.8 °C	1,222 mm	0
2000	30.1 °C1 February 2000	13.5 °C27 January 2000	20.8 °C	969 mm	2
1999	29.5 °C17 February 1999	13.7 °C22 August 1999	20.7 °C	1,185 mm	0
1998	29.5 °C17 February 1998	14.5 °C16 September 1998	21.5 °C	1,272 mm	0
1997	29.3 °C15 February 1997	14.1 °C19 July 1997	21.3 °C	1,343 mm	0
1996	29.4 °C4 January 1996	13.7 °C8 August 1996	20.9 °C	1,300 mm	0
1995	29.0 °C19 January 1995	13.2 °C24 August 1995	21.1 °C	1,172 mm	0
1994	29.9 °C1 February 1994	13.9 °C5 August 1994	20.9 °C	1,293 mm	0
1993	27.7 °C8 February 1993	13.4 °C19 July 1993	20.9 °C	1,262 mm	0
1992	30.9 °C29 February 1992	13.5 °C19 July 1992	20.9 °C	1,212 mm	1
1991	29.4 °C20 February 1991	14.3 °C21 July 1991	20.9 °C	1,366 mm	0
1990	28.4 °C10 February 1990	14.7 °C18 June 1990	21.0 °C	1,366 mm	0
1989	29.4 °C26 January 1989	13.5 °C2 July 1989	20.8 °C	1,392 mm	0
1988	29.9 °C2 March 1988	14.2 °C21 June 1988	21.0 °C	1,393 mm	0
1987	30.5 °C30 December 1987	13.9 °C14 July 1987	21.3 °C	1,450 mm	2
1986	28.9 °C25 February 1986	13.4 °C5 August 1986	20.7 °C	1,523 mm	0
1985	29.7 °C17 March 1985	13.6 °C6 July 1985	20.4 °C	1,618 mm	0
1984	28.6 °C24 January 1984	14.2 °C26 May 1984	20.4 °C	1,390 mm	0
1983	30.4 °C14 February 1983	14.2 °C7 July 1983	21.0 °C	1,223 mm	1
1982	29.1 °C29 January 1982	13.3 °C3 July 1982	20.6 °C	1,276 mm	0
1981	29.2 °C27 November 1981	13.7 °C15 June 1981	20.8 °C	1,325 mm	0
1980	29.6 °C18 March 1980	13.1 °C22 July 1980	20.7 °C	1,150 mm	0
1979	29.0 °C2 March 1979	14.3 °C24 July 1979	20.7 °C	1,350 mm	0
1978	30.2 °C7 February 1978	12.9 °C5 February 1978	20.6 °C	1,424 mm	2
1977	29.4 °C30 September 1977	12.8 °C21 August 1977	20.6 °C	1,570 mm	0
1976	29.8 °C16 March 1976	13.1 °C20 August 1976	20.2 °C	1,618 mm	0
1975	29.4 °C21 February 1975	12.6 °C30 July 1975	20.2 °C	1,713 mm	0
1974	29.3 °C16 March 1974	13.5 °C30 July 1974	20.2 °C	1,560 mm	0
1973	29.1 °C9 March 1973	13.2 °C29 June 1973	20.6 °C	1,473 mm	0
1972	28.5 °C23 September 1972	13.9 °C22 January 1972	20.2 °C	1,722 mm	0
1971	29.3 °C4 March 1971	13.3 °C23 June 1971	20.0 °C	1,640 mm	0
1970	28.1 °C8 February 1970	13.4 °C30 July 1970	20.2 °C	1,556 mm	0
1969	28.3 °C3 October 1969	13.0 °C13 July 1969	20.4 °C	1,309 mm	0
1968	27.7 °C4 January 1968	13.1 °C20 July 1968	20.2 °C	1,826 mm	0
1967	30.2 °C20 February 1967	13.3 °C12 December 1967	20.3 °C	1,603 mm	1
1966	29.0 °C26 December 1966	12.5 °C3 October 1966	20.5 °C	1,460 mm	0
1965	29.6 °C14 February 1965	11.0 °C18 September 1965	20.3 °C	1,446 mm	0
1964	28.5 °C11 March 1964	13.3 °C22 June 1964	20.2 °C	1,576 mm	0
1963	28.2 °C13 September 1963	12.7 °C10 September 1963	20.0 °C	1,636 mm	0
1962	27.1 °C2 February 1962	14.5 °C30 June 1962	19.8 °C	1,695 mm	0
1961	30.4 °C21 January 1961	13.1 °C16 July 1961	20.4 °C	1,741 mm	1
1960	28.7 °C30 December 1960	13.1 °C23 June 1960	20.5 °C	1,646 mm	0
1959	29.5 °C5 February 1959	12.5 °C14 July 1959	20.8 °C	1,744 mm	0
1958	29.7 °C16 January 1958	13.4 °C16 February 1958	21.0 °C	1,296 mm	0
1957	29.1 °C5 October 1957	13.3 °C23 July 1957	20.7 °C	1,638 mm	0
1956	26.9 °C12 January 1956	13.7 °C14 July 1956	19.9 °C	1,459 mm	0
1955	26.2 °C16 August 1955	14.2 °C18 June 1955	20.0 °C	1,280 mm	0
1954	26.4 °C13 January 1954	13.4 °C2 July 1954	20.0 °C	1,289 mm	0
1953	26.7 °C30 September 1953	13.3 °C23 July 1953	19.9 °C	1,852 mm	0
1952	27.0 °C12 September 1952	14.5 °C21 July 1952	20.2 °C	1,486 mm	0
1951	27.4 °C2 October 1951	13.1 °C6 July 1951	20.1 °C	1,757 mm	0
1950	27.3 °C3 March 1950	14.3 °C19 August 1950	19.9 °C	1,400 mm	0
1949	29.6 °C23 August 1949	13.8 °C31 July 1949	20.4 °C	1,205 mm	0
1948	26.9 °C28 July 1948	13.9 °C27 July 1948	20.1 °C	1,339 mm	0
1947	27.5 °C26 September 1947	13.4 °C22 June 1947	20.2 °C	1,314 mm	0
1946	31.9 °C25 February 1946	14.4 °C20 July 1946	20.6 °C	1,125 mm	4
1945	28.7 °C19 January 1945	12.7 °C9 June 1945	20.3 °C	1,085 mm	0
1944	31.1 °C5 March 1944	11.8 °C8 July 1944	20.9 °C	981 mm	8
1943	29.6 °C19 January 1943	13.2 °C27 July 1943	20.5 °C	1,022 mm	0
1942	29.5 °C9 February 1942	13.4 °C4 September 1942	20.2 °C	930 mm	0
1941	30.5 °C27 March 1941	13.8 °C26 July 1941	20.4 °C	1,252 mm	1
1940	26.8 °C3 March 1940	13.0 °C29 December 1940	19.8 °C	1,363 mm	0

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

A specific year

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

27.2 °C

+1.9 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

23 d/yr

+21

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

813 mm

-499 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	28.0 °C	+2.0 °C	53 mm	-35 mm
Feb	29.4 °C	+3.1 °C	34 mm	-66 mm
Mar	28.0 °C	+2.1 °C	95 mm	-49 mm
Apr	26.3 °C	+1.2 °C	166 mm	+0 mm
May	25.8 °C	+1.1 °C	91 mm	-41 mm
Jun	26.1 °C	+1.3 °C	27 mm	-33 mm
Jul	26.5 °C	+1.6 °C	29 mm	-17 mm
Aug	26.3 °C	+1.1 °C	70 mm	-13 mm
Sep	28.4 °C	+2.9 °C	32 mm	-77 mm
Oct	27.6 °C	+2.2 °C	85 mm	-48 mm
Nov	27.3 °C	+2.4 °C	52 mm	-92 mm
Dec	26.7 °C	+1.5 °C	79 mm	-30 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

32.1 °C

28 Feb 2025

Coldest day

14.9 °C

21 Sep 2025

Wettest day

21.0 mm

19 Mar 2025

Windiest day

26.4 km/h

30 Jul 2025

Strongest gust

53.3 km/h

29 Jul 2025

Hottest feels-like

34.5 °C

20 Feb 2025

Coldest feels-like

14.6 °C

31 Jul 2025

Sunniest day

12.0 h

1 Jan 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Masaka?

Masaka has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 20.9 °C and it receives 1,312 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Masaka?

The hottest day measured in Masaka between 1940 and 2025 was 23 February 2005, reaching 32.6 °C.

What is the coldest day in Masaka?

The coldest day measured in Masaka between 1940 and 2025 was 18 September 1965, at 11.0 °C.

Does it snow in Masaka?

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

Has the climate of Masaka warmed?

Yes: Masaka warmed by +2.1 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Masaka?

The wettest day measured in Masaka between 1940 and 2025 was 20 February 1957, with 88 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Masaka?

The windiest day measured in Masaka between 1940 and 2025 was 18 July 2009, with winds reaching 30.3 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Masaka?

The warmest month in Masaka is February (21.5 °C on average); the coldest is July (20.4 °C).

How much does it rain in Masaka?

Masaka receives on average 1,312 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 247 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Masaka?

Masaka gets on average 10.3 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,760 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Are there tropical nights in Masaka?

Yes: Masaka has on average 5 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Masaka?

In Masaka, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 36.0 °C on 25 September 1997, and the lowest was 10.0 °C on 18 September 1965.

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