Mwinilunga climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Mwinilunga?

Mwinilunga has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 20.1 °C and it receives 1,326 mm of precipitation per year.

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

The hottest day measured in Mwinilunga between 1940 and 2025 was 28 September 2008, reaching 35.6 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Mwinilunga?

The coldest day measured in Mwinilunga between 1940 and 2025 was 1 July 1994, at 5.6 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Mwinilunga?

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

Q: Has the climate of Mwinilunga warmed?

Yes: Mwinilunga warmed by +1.0 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Mwinilunga?

The wettest day measured in Mwinilunga between 1940 and 2025 was 20 February 1940, with 90 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Mwinilunga?

The windiest day measured in Mwinilunga between 1940 and 2025 was 22 February 1958, with winds reaching 26.6 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Mwinilunga?

The warmest month in Mwinilunga is September (23.0 °C on average); the coldest is June (18.0 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Mwinilunga?

Mwinilunga receives on average 1,326 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 167 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Mwinilunga?

Mwinilunga gets on average 10.0 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,650 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Mwinilunga (Zambia) has a tropical savanna climate (Aw) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 20.1 °C and it receives 1,326 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 (23.0 °C on average) and the coldest is June (18.0 °C). Rainfall peaks in December.

Mwinilunga averages 0 frost days, 40 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 167 rainy days per year.

Mwinilunga has warmed by +1.0 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.11 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The hottest day of the period reached 35.6 °C (on 28 September 2008) and the coldest 5.6 °C (on 1 July 1994).

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

MwinilungaNorth-Western

coords: -11.74°, 24.43°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

AwTropical savannaWarmest monthSeptemberColdest monthJuneWettest monthDecemberDriest monthJuly

Mean daily temperature

20.1°C

Average daily high

26.5°C

Average daily low

15.4°C

Annual rainfall

1,326mm

Sunshine / day

10.0h

Mean relative humidity

66%

Average peak wind

12.0km/h

Seasonal range

5.0°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

40 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

167 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.0 cm

Average feels-like high

27.8 °C

Average feels-like low

14.9 °C

Average peak gust

32.3 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

1 d/yr

Solar radiation

19.6 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+1.0 °C

since 1940

+0.1 °C per decade · r² = 0.40 · 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

35.6 °C

28 September 2008

Coldest day

5.6 °C

1 July 1994

Wettest day

90 mm

20 February 1940

Windiest day

26.6 km/h

22 February 1958

Strongest gust

70.9 km/h

22 February 1958

Hottest feels-like

36.1 °C

2 November 2018

Coldest feels-like

0.6 °C

1 July 1994

Sunniest day

12.7 h

30 December 1940

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days
2025	33.8 °C18 September 2025	8.1 °C12 July 2025	20.4 °C	1,299 mm	60
2024	34.8 °C27 September 2024	7.4 °C8 July 2024	21.1 °C	1,085 mm	71
2023	33.1 °C16 September 2023	9.7 °C12 July 2023	20.8 °C	1,410 mm	63
2022	32.8 °C14 October 2022	9.4 °C29 June 2022	20.3 °C	1,597 mm	46
2021	32.9 °C10 October 2021	9.3 °C10 July 2021	20.4 °C	1,220 mm	52
2020	34.1 °C5 October 2020	8.6 °C18 July 2020	20.5 °C	1,462 mm	43
2019	32.9 °C15 September 2019	9.6 °C8 July 2019	20.8 °C	1,322 mm	55
2018	33.2 °C28 September 2018	8.7 °C8 June 2018	20.6 °C	1,313 mm	63
2017	33.6 °C17 October 2017	10.8 °C29 July 2017	20.6 °C	1,257 mm	51
2016	34.4 °C16 October 2016	9.9 °C11 July 2016	20.9 °C	1,038 mm	58
2015	33.2 °C19 September 2015	10.1 °C17 June 2015	20.6 °C	1,274 mm	60
2014	33.9 °C20 September 2014	9.6 °C12 July 2014	20.6 °C	1,252 mm	49
2013	34.2 °C16 September 2013	9.6 °C9 June 2013	20.5 °C	1,254 mm	51
2012	33.2 °C10 October 2012	8.8 °C20 July 2012	20.4 °C	1,143 mm	60
2011	32.8 °C22 September 2011	9.7 °C9 July 2011	20.3 °C	1,184 mm	37
2010	34.5 °C4 October 2010	9.6 °C11 July 2010	20.7 °C	1,374 mm	55
2009	33.5 °C29 September 2009	9.5 °C3 July 2009	20.4 °C	1,321 mm	45
2008	35.6 °C28 September 2008	9.6 °C13 June 2008	20.6 °C	1,203 mm	63
2007	33.7 °C25 September 2007	9.8 °C23 June 2007	20.4 °C	1,364 mm	38
2006	33.5 °C21 October 2006	9.8 °C7 June 2006	20.4 °C	1,241 mm	44
2005	32.6 °C25 September 2005	10.1 °C3 July 2005	20.9 °C	1,118 mm	64
2004	33.2 °C8 October 2004	9.3 °C10 July 2004	20.3 °C	1,252 mm	52
2003	35.2 °C15 October 2003	8.7 °C9 July 2003	20.6 °C	1,261 mm	62
2002	33.7 °C30 September 2002	10.1 °C28 June 2002	20.6 °C	1,146 mm	38
2001	33.8 °C7 September 2001	10.4 °C19 July 2001	20.4 °C	1,238 mm	60
2000	33.5 °C2 October 2000	9.5 °C8 July 2000	20.4 °C	1,241 mm	55
1999	31.7 °C23 September 1999	10.1 °C29 June 1999	20.2 °C	1,279 mm	21
1998	32.9 °C8 October 1998	9.3 °C15 June 1998	21.0 °C	1,431 mm	56
1997	34.3 °C26 September 1997	9.8 °C16 July 1997	20.7 °C	1,286 mm	50
1996	32.6 °C16 October 1996	6.9 °C3 July 1996	20.5 °C	1,248 mm	61
1995	33.1 °C11 October 1995	6.4 °C19 June 1995	20.7 °C	1,122 mm	65
1994	33.5 °C27 September 1994	5.6 °C1 July 1994	20.1 °C	1,121 mm	36
1993	33.2 °C24 October 1993	8.9 °C11 June 1993	20.1 °C	1,360 mm	28
1992	31.9 °C1 October 1992	8.4 °C5 July 1992	20.2 °C	1,106 mm	36
1991	33.0 °C7 October 1991	6.8 °C24 July 1991	20.1 °C	1,134 mm	33
1990	31.4 °C12 October 1990	7.0 °C14 July 1990	20.1 °C	1,276 mm	26
1989	32.7 °C26 September 1989	6.4 °C18 June 1989	19.9 °C	1,287 mm	42
1988	32.4 °C2 September 1988	6.9 °C18 July 1988	20.3 °C	1,201 mm	32
1987	32.6 °C2 September 1987	7.7 °C4 July 1987	20.5 °C	1,187 mm	32
1986	32.3 °C17 September 1986	7.4 °C17 June 1986	19.7 °C	1,522 mm	18
1985	31.5 °C9 October 1985	7.7 °C23 June 1985	19.7 °C	1,277 mm	21
1984	32.2 °C10 September 1984	9.1 °C4 July 1984	20.0 °C	1,284 mm	40
1983	32.9 °C19 September 1983	8.0 °C20 June 1983	20.5 °C	1,222 mm	35
1982	31.3 °C2 September 1982	8.3 °C17 July 1982	19.9 °C	1,348 mm	16
1981	32.1 °C16 September 1981	8.0 °C20 June 1981	19.9 °C	1,255 mm	28
1980	34.2 °C19 September 1980	8.7 °C12 July 1980	20.1 °C	1,129 mm	31
1979	33.4 °C3 October 1979	7.7 °C5 July 1979	19.7 °C	1,511 mm	39
1978	33.1 °C23 September 1978	8.3 °C23 July 1978	19.8 °C	1,610 mm	29
1977	32.0 °C11 September 1977	8.2 °C27 June 1977	20.0 °C	1,448 mm	37
1976	31.2 °C26 October 1976	8.0 °C29 June 1976	19.2 °C	1,550 mm	13
1975	32.4 °C26 October 1975	7.0 °C26 July 1975	19.6 °C	1,211 mm	26
1974	32.1 °C23 October 1974	7.2 °C17 June 1974	19.4 °C	1,152 mm	37
1973	33.1 °C23 September 1973	8.1 °C13 July 1973	19.9 °C	1,194 mm	31
1972	31.4 °C3 October 1972	8.0 °C20 June 1972	19.5 °C	1,560 mm	15
1971	32.9 °C8 October 1971	9.7 °C9 June 1971	19.6 °C	1,251 mm	17
1970	32.2 °C4 September 1970	9.0 °C30 May 1970	20.0 °C	1,402 mm	17
1969	31.7 °C9 October 1969	9.6 °C23 June 1969	19.9 °C	1,561 mm	18
1968	32.6 °C31 October 1968	7.5 °C15 June 1968	19.6 °C	1,284 mm	29
1967	32.0 °C3 October 1967	8.1 °C21 July 1967	19.7 °C	1,397 mm	15
1966	31.4 °C6 October 1966	9.3 °C29 July 1966	20.0 °C	1,419 mm	9
1965	31.6 °C22 September 1965	7.9 °C21 June 1965	19.7 °C	1,299 mm	17
1964	31.8 °C26 September 1964	8.9 °C30 June 1964	19.8 °C	1,369 mm	14
1963	32.7 °C8 September 1963	9.0 °C9 June 1963	19.8 °C	1,633 mm	14
1962	31.6 °C2 October 1962	9.0 °C27 June 1962	19.8 °C	1,510 mm	16
1961	32.1 °C17 October 1961	9.0 °C11 August 1961	19.5 °C	1,667 mm	16
1960	32.7 °C28 October 1960	8.5 °C25 July 1960	19.5 °C	1,377 mm	19
1959	31.6 °C15 October 1959	9.9 °C19 June 1959	19.7 °C	1,655 mm	18
1958	33.3 °C10 September 1958	8.8 °C13 August 1958	19.6 °C	1,677 mm	11
1957	31.1 °C15 September 1957	9.0 °C16 June 1957	19.6 °C	1,752 mm	14
1956	32.6 °C17 September 1956	9.1 °C19 June 1956	19.6 °C	1,438 mm	49
1955	33.2 °C11 October 1955	9.7 °C28 July 1955	19.7 °C	1,486 mm	34
1954	33.5 °C21 October 1954	7.8 °C22 June 1954	21.0 °C	791 mm	95
1953	33.1 °C2 October 1953	8.7 °C22 June 1953	19.7 °C	1,745 mm	45
1952	33.8 °C12 September 1952	9.6 °C6 August 1952	20.4 °C	1,223 mm	60
1951	34.2 °C5 October 1951	8.3 °C15 July 1951	20.0 °C	1,439 mm	51
1950	31.6 °C27 September 1950	8.7 °C18 June 1950	19.4 °C	1,397 mm	25
1949	34.1 °C5 October 1949	9.0 °C8 June 1949	20.1 °C	1,372 mm	49
1948	33.7 °C13 September 1948	9.1 °C21 June 1948	19.8 °C	1,585 mm	31
1947	34.1 °C8 October 1947	9.2 °C2 July 1947	20.2 °C	1,321 mm	54
1946	32.5 °C12 September 1946	8.4 °C18 June 1946	20.0 °C	1,200 mm	37
1945	33.0 °C17 September 1945	9.2 °C7 July 1945	20.1 °C	1,303 mm	51
1944	34.7 °C20 September 1944	9.4 °C15 July 1944	20.3 °C	1,232 mm	67
1943	33.7 °C5 October 1943	8.5 °C29 July 1943	19.9 °C	1,209 mm	50
1942	33.9 °C16 September 1942	9.7 °C14 July 1942	20.2 °C	1,181 mm	72
1941	34.8 °C13 October 1941	10.3 °C6 July 1941	20.4 °C	1,249 mm	53
1940	32.1 °C5 September 1940	9.1 °C1 July 1940	19.5 °C	1,418 mm	29

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

27.2 °C

+0.7 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

60 d/yr

+20

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

1299 mm

-27 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	25.2 °C	+0.4 °C	291 mm	+49 mm
Feb	26.6 °C	+1.4 °C	228 mm	+3 mm
Mar	26.7 °C	+1.0 °C	174 mm	-48 mm
Apr	27.0 °C	+0.9 °C	108 mm	+27 mm
May	25.9 °C	-0.4 °C	16 mm	+9 mm
Jun	25.8 °C	+0.4 °C	0 mm	-0 mm
Jul	25.2 °C	-0.5 °C	0 mm	0 mm
Aug	28.5 °C	+0.2 °C	0 mm	-1 mm
Sep	31.2 °C	+0.9 °C	6 mm	-6 mm
Oct	31.4 °C	+2.1 °C	33 mm	-46 mm
Nov	26.9 °C	+0.6 °C	177 mm	-30 mm
Dec	25.8 °C	+0.7 °C	266 mm	+16 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

33.8 °C

18 Sep 2025

Coldest day

8.1 °C

12 Jul 2025

Wettest day

46.7 mm

29 Dec 2025

Windiest day

23.1 km/h

14 May 2025

Strongest gust

52.9 km/h

9 Jul 2025

Hottest feels-like

34.2 °C

9 Feb 2025

Coldest feels-like

5.1 °C

31 Jul 2025

Sunniest day

12.7 h

30 Dec 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Mwinilunga?

Mwinilunga has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 20.1 °C and it receives 1,326 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Mwinilunga?

The hottest day measured in Mwinilunga between 1940 and 2025 was 28 September 2008, reaching 35.6 °C.

What is the coldest day in Mwinilunga?

The coldest day measured in Mwinilunga between 1940 and 2025 was 1 July 1994, at 5.6 °C.

Does it snow in Mwinilunga?

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

Has the climate of Mwinilunga warmed?

Yes: Mwinilunga warmed by +1.0 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Mwinilunga?

The wettest day measured in Mwinilunga between 1940 and 2025 was 20 February 1940, with 90 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Mwinilunga?

The windiest day measured in Mwinilunga between 1940 and 2025 was 22 February 1958, with winds reaching 26.6 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Mwinilunga?

The warmest month in Mwinilunga is September (23.0 °C on average); the coldest is June (18.0 °C).

How much does it rain in Mwinilunga?

Mwinilunga receives on average 1,326 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 167 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Mwinilunga?

Mwinilunga gets on average 10.0 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,650 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Are there tropical nights in Mwinilunga?

Yes: Mwinilunga has on average 1 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Mwinilunga?

In Mwinilunga, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 36.1 °C on 2 November 2018, and the lowest was 0.6 °C on 1 July 1994.

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