Chiengi climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Chiengi?

Chiengi has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 22.3 °C and it receives 1,484 mm of precipitation per year.

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

The hottest day measured in Chiengi between 1940 and 2025 was 4 October 2010, reaching 35.8 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Chiengi?

The coldest day measured in Chiengi between 1940 and 2025 was 27 July 2024, at 7.5 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Chiengi?

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

Q: Has the climate of Chiengi warmed?

Yes: Chiengi warmed by +1.5 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Chiengi?

The wettest day measured in Chiengi between 1940 and 2025 was 21 November 1959, with 114 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Chiengi?

The windiest day measured in Chiengi between 1940 and 2025 was 1 February 1957, with winds reaching 28.7 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Chiengi?

The warmest month in Chiengi is September (24.6 °C on average); the coldest is July (20.8 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Chiengi?

Chiengi receives on average 1,484 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 164 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Chiengi?

Chiengi gets on average 10.9 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,979 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Chiengi (Zambia) has a tropical savanna climate (Aw) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 22.3 °C and it receives 1,484 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 September (24.6 °C on average) and the coldest is July (20.8 °C). Rainfall peaks in December.

Chiengi averages 0 frost days, 74 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 164 rainy days per year.

Chiengi has warmed by +1.5 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.18 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The hottest day of the period reached 35.8 °C (on 4 October 2010) and the coldest 7.5 °C (on 27 July 2024).

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

ChiengiLuapula Province

coords: -8.66°, 29.16°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

AwTropical savannaWarmest monthSeptemberColdest monthJulyWettest monthDecemberDriest monthJuly

Mean daily temperature

22.3°C

Average daily high

28.1°C

Average daily low

18.0°C

Annual rainfall

1,484mm

Sunshine / day

10.9h

Mean relative humidity

69%

Average peak wind

10.7km/h

Seasonal range

3.8°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

74 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

164 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.0 cm

Average feels-like high

30.7 °C

Average feels-like low

18.8 °C

Average peak gust

31.0 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

35 d/yr

Solar radiation

22.0 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+1.5 °C

since 1940

+0.2 °C per decade · r² = 0.71 · 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

35.8 °C

4 October 2010

Coldest day

7.5 °C

27 July 2024

Wettest day

114 mm

21 November 1959

Windiest day

28.7 km/h

1 February 1957

Strongest gust

72.7 km/h

27 December 1948

Hottest feels-like

39.4 °C

14 October 2023

Coldest feels-like

6.0 °C

27 July 2024

Sunniest day

12.3 h

24 January 1949

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days
2025	35.3 °C29 September 2025	11.0 °C6 August 2025	22.7 °C	1,387 mm	137
2024	35.1 °C27 September 2024	7.5 °C27 July 2024	23.0 °C	1,480 mm	149
2023	34.5 °C27 August 2023	12.6 °C29 July 2023	23.2 °C	1,736 mm	127
2022	34.0 °C2 October 2022	12.7 °C11 July 2022	22.7 °C	1,534 mm	82
2021	34.5 °C10 October 2021	11.9 °C5 July 2021	22.9 °C	1,006 mm	107
2020	34.4 °C6 October 2020	13.3 °C18 July 2020	23.0 °C	1,398 mm	101
2019	34.0 °C15 September 2019	13.0 °C16 June 2019	23.3 °C	1,426 mm	112
2018	34.0 °C7 October 2018	13.6 °C16 June 2018	22.9 °C	1,270 mm	107
2017	33.8 °C3 October 2017	13.1 °C16 July 2017	23.0 °C	1,477 mm	87
2016	34.8 °C25 October 2016	13.1 °C18 June 2016	23.2 °C	1,231 mm	112
2015	33.9 °C10 September 2015	13.7 °C14 July 2015	23.0 °C	1,392 mm	105
2014	34.6 °C14 October 2014	13.4 °C13 July 2014	23.1 °C	1,214 mm	114
2013	34.3 °C18 October 2013	12.5 °C9 June 2013	22.8 °C	1,516 mm	91
2012	34.3 °C2 September 2012	12.1 °C1 August 2012	22.7 °C	1,237 mm	88
2011	33.7 °C4 September 2011	12.5 °C6 July 2011	22.9 °C	1,381 mm	105
2010	35.8 °C4 October 2010	13.9 °C10 July 2010	23.4 °C	1,243 mm	131
2009	34.3 °C29 September 2009	13.1 °C11 July 2009	22.9 °C	1,328 mm	103
2008	35.5 °C28 September 2008	12.1 °C4 July 2008	22.7 °C	1,454 mm	98
2007	34.5 °C25 September 2007	13.3 °C27 June 2007	23.3 °C	991 mm	129
2006	34.3 °C18 October 2006	13.5 °C3 June 2006	22.8 °C	1,583 mm	85
2005	33.8 °C10 October 2005	13.4 °C21 July 2005	23.2 °C	1,116 mm	138
2004	35.3 °C9 October 2004	12.4 °C13 July 2004	22.5 °C	1,336 mm	91
2003	34.9 °C14 October 2003	12.8 °C10 July 2003	22.8 °C	1,163 mm	99
2002	34.6 °C29 September 2002	13.8 °C19 June 2002	22.7 °C	1,346 mm	104
2001	35.3 °C7 September 2001	13.9 °C18 June 2001	22.6 °C	1,228 mm	74
2000	34.5 °C4 September 2000	13.1 °C15 July 2000	22.7 °C	1,241 mm	90
1999	33.1 °C22 September 1999	14.4 °C29 June 1999	22.5 °C	1,421 mm	73
1998	34.1 °C25 August 1998	13.6 °C4 July 1998	23.1 °C	1,574 mm	119
1997	35.2 °C25 September 1997	12.9 °C3 August 1997	22.7 °C	1,408 mm	85
1996	33.6 °C8 September 1996	12.5 °C2 July 1996	22.6 °C	1,141 mm	99
1995	34.4 °C25 September 1995	12.1 °C5 July 1995	22.6 °C	1,065 mm	83
1994	33.5 °C27 September 1994	10.9 °C15 July 1994	22.3 °C	1,196 mm	55
1993	33.5 °C24 October 1993	12.3 °C27 July 1993	22.3 °C	1,287 mm	62
1992	33.5 °C8 October 1992	11.7 °C4 August 1992	22.3 °C	1,213 mm	64
1991	33.0 °C7 October 1991	10.3 °C23 July 1991	22.1 °C	1,482 mm	42
1990	33.0 °C13 October 1990	11.4 °C13 July 1990	22.3 °C	1,391 mm	53
1989	32.9 °C7 September 1989	11.2 °C18 June 1989	22.0 °C	1,311 mm	53
1988	33.0 °C1 September 1988	13.0 °C31 July 1988	22.5 °C	1,395 mm	57
1987	33.5 °C22 September 1987	12.1 °C2 July 1987	22.6 °C	1,368 mm	73
1986	32.2 °C31 August 1986	11.2 °C9 July 1986	21.9 °C	1,665 mm	44
1985	33.5 °C6 October 1985	11.6 °C3 August 1985	22.0 °C	1,335 mm	51
1984	33.5 °C8 September 1984	14.1 °C11 June 1984	22.2 °C	1,323 mm	62
1983	34.7 °C16 September 1983	13.6 °C22 July 1983	22.7 °C	1,346 mm	62
1982	32.7 °C21 September 1982	12.3 °C20 July 1982	22.1 °C	1,522 mm	48
1981	33.3 °C17 September 1981	11.5 °C27 June 1981	22.1 °C	1,387 mm	43
1980	34.3 °C20 September 1980	12.7 °C22 June 1980	22.2 °C	1,317 mm	51
1979	33.5 °C3 October 1979	12.3 °C24 June 1979	21.9 °C	1,926 mm	56
1978	34.6 °C22 September 1978	12.9 °C1 August 1978	22.1 °C	1,766 mm	66
1977	33.3 °C11 September 1977	12.1 °C11 July 1977	22.2 °C	1,864 mm	59
1976	32.6 °C13 September 1976	11.4 °C28 June 1976	21.7 °C	1,790 mm	43
1975	32.2 °C28 September 1975	11.9 °C26 July 1975	21.8 °C	1,481 mm	44
1974	32.8 °C30 September 1974	11.2 °C22 June 1974	21.5 °C	1,721 mm	56
1973	33.3 °C24 October 1973	10.8 °C6 July 1973	22.0 °C	1,538 mm	58
1972	32.3 °C21 September 1972	12.5 °C24 June 1972	21.7 °C	1,665 mm	36
1971	33.1 °C11 October 1971	12.8 °C30 June 1971	21.6 °C	1,522 mm	41
1970	34.9 °C27 September 1970	12.2 °C21 June 1970	22.1 °C	1,490 mm	50
1969	32.9 °C25 September 1969	12.4 °C14 June 1969	22.2 °C	1,572 mm	51
1968	34.0 °C4 October 1968	11.6 °C19 July 1968	21.7 °C	1,613 mm	51
1967	33.1 °C16 October 1967	10.0 °C21 July 1967	21.8 °C	2,053 mm	48
1966	32.7 °C6 October 1966	11.6 °C2 July 1966	22.0 °C	1,607 mm	38
1965	33.6 °C20 September 1965	10.9 °C12 July 1965	21.6 °C	1,702 mm	56
1964	32.8 °C25 September 1964	11.1 °C30 June 1964	21.7 °C	1,737 mm	40
1963	33.2 °C8 September 1963	12.0 °C9 June 1963	21.7 °C	1,994 mm	50
1962	32.3 °C15 September 1962	13.1 °C30 June 1962	21.7 °C	1,719 mm	46
1961	32.0 °C12 September 1961	12.6 °C10 June 1961	21.8 °C	2,183 mm	41
1960	32.2 °C28 September 1960	11.3 °C31 July 1960	21.9 °C	1,671 mm	53
1959	33.3 °C17 October 1959	12.3 °C24 July 1959	22.2 °C	1,753 mm	64
1958	33.2 °C10 September 1958	10.5 °C27 July 1958	21.9 °C	1,767 mm	36
1957	33.4 °C10 September 1957	11.0 °C11 July 1957	21.5 °C	2,304 mm	61
1956	33.8 °C20 September 1956	11.0 °C15 July 1956	21.6 °C	1,540 mm	73
1955	33.8 °C11 October 1955	11.2 °C13 August 1955	21.6 °C	1,600 mm	66
1954	33.2 °C8 October 1954	10.4 °C26 July 1954	22.1 °C	1,192 mm	97
1953	34.1 °C30 September 1953	10.7 °C16 June 1953	21.6 °C	2,060 mm	59
1952	34.2 °C14 September 1952	11.5 °C16 July 1952	22.0 °C	1,992 mm	70
1951	35.0 °C8 October 1951	11.3 °C17 July 1951	21.8 °C	1,959 mm	67
1950	33.7 °C14 September 1950	12.0 °C18 July 1950	21.6 °C	1,574 mm	47
1949	34.0 °C2 October 1949	12.4 °C9 June 1949	22.1 °C	1,313 mm	74
1948	33.3 °C12 September 1948	11.5 °C11 July 1948	21.8 °C	1,671 mm	56
1947	34.8 °C10 October 1947	10.9 °C14 August 1947	22.0 °C	1,503 mm	80
1946	33.0 °C17 September 1946	11.7 °C18 June 1946	21.9 °C	1,428 mm	55
1945	34.5 °C4 October 1945	11.9 °C20 June 1945	21.9 °C	1,179 mm	67
1944	35.4 °C20 September 1944	11.9 °C15 July 1944	22.2 °C	1,234 mm	96
1943	34.2 °C14 October 1943	11.1 °C2 June 1943	21.9 °C	1,125 mm	75
1942	34.3 °C24 September 1942	12.2 °C14 July 1942	22.1 °C	1,189 mm	89
1941	35.0 °C12 October 1941	11.8 °C26 June 1941	22.1 °C	1,363 mm	86
1940	32.8 °C11 September 1940	11.9 °C22 July 1940	21.5 °C	1,408 mm	50

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

29.3 °C

+1.2 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

137 d/yr

+63

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

1387 mm

-97 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	27.6 °C	+1.1 °C	197 mm	-27 mm
Feb	29.2 °C	+2.2 °C	124 mm	-68 mm
Mar	29.2 °C	+2.1 °C	296 mm	+27 mm
Apr	29.2 °C	+1.8 °C	178 mm	+23 mm
May	28.7 °C	+0.5 °C	34 mm	+18 mm
Jun	28.8 °C	+0.9 °C	0 mm	-0 mm
Jul	27.8 °C	-0.1 °C	0 mm	0 mm
Aug	29.7 °C	-0.2 °C	0 mm	-1 mm
Sep	32.4 °C	+1.0 °C	2 mm	-12 mm
Oct	32.7 °C	+2.5 °C	22 mm	-67 mm
Nov	29.4 °C	+1.9 °C	270 mm	+27 mm
Dec	27.1 °C	+0.6 °C	264 mm	-16 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

35.3 °C

29 Sep 2025

Coldest day

11.0 °C

6 Aug 2025

Wettest day

66.1 mm

14 Nov 2025

Windiest day

21.9 km/h

14 May 2025

Strongest gust

52.6 km/h

25 Jan 2025

Hottest feels-like

39.0 °C

8 Mar 2025

Coldest feels-like

9.7 °C

5 Aug 2025

Sunniest day

12.2 h

26 Nov 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Chiengi?

Chiengi has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 22.3 °C and it receives 1,484 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Chiengi?

The hottest day measured in Chiengi between 1940 and 2025 was 4 October 2010, reaching 35.8 °C.

What is the coldest day in Chiengi?

The coldest day measured in Chiengi between 1940 and 2025 was 27 July 2024, at 7.5 °C.

Does it snow in Chiengi?

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

Has the climate of Chiengi warmed?

Yes: Chiengi warmed by +1.5 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Chiengi?

The wettest day measured in Chiengi between 1940 and 2025 was 21 November 1959, with 114 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Chiengi?

The windiest day measured in Chiengi between 1940 and 2025 was 1 February 1957, with winds reaching 28.7 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Chiengi?

The warmest month in Chiengi is September (24.6 °C on average); the coldest is July (20.8 °C).

How much does it rain in Chiengi?

Chiengi receives on average 1,484 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 164 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Chiengi?

Chiengi gets on average 10.9 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,979 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Are there tropical nights in Chiengi?

Yes: Chiengi has on average 35 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Chiengi?

In Chiengi, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 39.4 °C on 14 October 2023, and the lowest was 6.0 °C on 27 July 2024.

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