Ntandabale climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Ntandabale?

Ntandabale has a humid subtropical, dry winter climate (Köppen Cwa). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 20.5 °C and it receives 1,208 mm of precipitation per year.

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

The hottest day measured in Ntandabale between 1940 and 2025 was 18 October 2017, reaching 38.1 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Ntandabale?

The coldest day measured in Ntandabale between 1940 and 2025 was 17 June 1968, at 3.3 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Ntandabale?

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

Q: Has the climate of Ntandabale warmed?

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

Q: What is the wettest day in Ntandabale?

The wettest day measured in Ntandabale between 1940 and 2025 was 7 November 1973, with 98 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Ntandabale?

The windiest day measured in Ntandabale between 1940 and 2025 was 15 October 1977, with winds reaching 34.4 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Ntandabale?

The warmest month in Ntandabale is October (25.0 °C on average); the coldest is July (16.0 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Ntandabale?

Ntandabale receives on average 1,208 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 129 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Ntandabale?

Ntandabale gets on average 10.7 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,905 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Ntandabale (Zambia) has a humid subtropical, dry winter climate (Cwa) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 20.5 °C and it receives 1,208 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 October (25.0 °C on average) and the coldest is July (16.0 °C). Rainfall peaks in January.

Ntandabale averages 0 frost days, 52 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 129 rainy days per year.

Ntandabale has warmed by +1.0 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.12 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The hottest day of the period reached 38.1 °C (on 18 October 2017) and the coldest 3.3 °C (on 17 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

NtandabaleLusaka Province

coords: -15.39°, 28.42°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

CwaHumid subtropical, dry winterWarmest monthOctoberColdest monthJulyWettest monthJanuaryDriest monthAugust

Mean daily temperature

20.5°C

Average daily high

26.1°C

Average daily low

16.0°C

Annual rainfall

1,208mm

Sunshine / day

10.7h

Mean relative humidity

64%

Average peak wind

16.5km/h

Seasonal range

9.0°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

52 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

129 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.0 cm

Average feels-like high

26.8 °C

Average feels-like low

15.4 °C

Average peak gust

36.7 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

31 d/yr

Solar radiation

20.6 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+1.0 °C

since 1940

+0.1 °C per decade · r² = 0.27 · 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

38.1 °C

18 October 2017

Coldest day

3.3 °C

17 June 1968

Wettest day

98 mm

7 November 1973

Windiest day

34.4 km/h

15 October 1977

Strongest gust

68.8 km/h

3 February 2015

Hottest feels-like

40.2 °C

8 January 2016

Coldest feels-like

-0.6 °C

17 June 1968

Sunniest day

12.8 h

15 December 1950

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days
2025	36.1 °C2 November 2025	7.8 °C11 July 2025	21.4 °C	1,315 mm	68
2024	36.7 °C30 September 2024	8.1 °C15 June 2024	22.2 °C	725 mm	106
2023	36.2 °C13 October 2023	7.7 °C16 July 2023	22.0 °C	1,178 mm	85
2022	34.5 °C27 October 2022	8.0 °C18 July 2022	20.8 °C	1,400 mm	53
2021	36.3 °C10 October 2021	7.5 °C28 May 2021	21.1 °C	1,021 mm	75
2020	36.8 °C8 November 2020	8.2 °C5 July 2020	21.1 °C	1,012 mm	70
2019	37.3 °C28 October 2019	6.6 °C24 July 2019	21.6 °C	925 mm	77
2018	35.2 °C18 October 2018	7.7 °C9 June 2018	21.2 °C	1,229 mm	69
2017	38.1 °C18 October 2017	7.9 °C8 June 2017	20.6 °C	1,628 mm	47
2016	36.1 °C1 November 2016	7.4 °C15 June 2016	21.3 °C	1,256 mm	79
2015	36.4 °C14 November 2015	7.2 °C4 August 2015	21.1 °C	1,023 mm	75
2014	36.1 °C10 October 2014	7.2 °C13 July 2014	21.2 °C	1,067 mm	73
2013	36.1 °C28 September 2013	7.9 °C20 June 2013	21.1 °C	1,091 mm	68
2012	35.6 °C19 October 2012	5.6 °C21 July 2012	20.7 °C	1,268 mm	65
2011	37.3 °C26 October 2011	6.4 °C28 June 2011	20.6 °C	1,126 mm	48
2010	36.2 °C12 October 2010	6.5 °C27 June 2010	20.7 °C	1,533 mm	55
2009	34.2 °C9 October 2009	6.5 °C22 July 2009	20.1 °C	1,235 mm	43
2008	35.0 °C27 September 2008	6.9 °C1 July 2008	20.3 °C	1,255 mm	56
2007	34.0 °C7 October 2007	7.0 °C16 July 2007	20.5 °C	1,501 mm	36
2006	34.9 °C31 October 2006	6.9 °C2 July 2006	20.6 °C	1,249 mm	46
2005	35.1 °C21 October 2005	7.5 °C8 July 2005	21.1 °C	984 mm	54
2004	34.9 °C8 October 2004	6.1 °C9 July 2004	20.3 °C	1,198 mm	33
2003	35.9 °C15 October 2003	6.5 °C10 July 2003	20.6 °C	1,288 mm	59
2002	34.1 °C30 September 2002	7.5 °C27 June 2002	20.8 °C	832 mm	45
2001	35.7 °C19 October 2001	6.9 °C27 July 2001	20.7 °C	1,396 mm	55
2000	34.3 °C26 October 2000	7.5 °C5 July 2000	20.3 °C	1,422 mm	35
1999	35.2 °C23 October 1999	7.3 °C14 June 1999	20.4 °C	997 mm	34
1998	36.8 °C4 November 1998	7.9 °C14 July 1998	21.4 °C	1,099 mm	61
1997	36.5 °C12 November 1997	8.1 °C10 July 1997	20.8 °C	1,115 mm	37
1996	35.6 °C9 November 1996	6.2 °C2 July 1996	21.0 °C	1,236 mm	61
1995	35.4 °C11 October 1995	7.0 °C17 July 1995	21.4 °C	1,052 mm	71
1994	36.3 °C22 November 1994	5.2 °C2 July 1994	20.9 °C	941 mm	70
1993	35.2 °C4 November 1993	7.3 °C7 June 1993	20.7 °C	1,307 mm	42
1992	35.3 °C17 October 1992	8.0 °C14 August 1992	21.4 °C	978 mm	66
1991	33.4 °C9 October 1991	7.2 °C13 June 1991	20.6 °C	1,090 mm	51
1990	35.8 °C16 October 1990	7.8 °C4 July 1990	20.7 °C	982 mm	50
1989	35.0 °C10 November 1989	6.4 °C15 June 1989	20.4 °C	1,435 mm	52
1988	34.4 °C10 October 1988	7.8 °C18 July 1988	20.6 °C	1,101 mm	40
1987	36.6 °C20 November 1987	6.4 °C24 June 1987	21.2 °C	803 mm	64
1986	33.9 °C7 October 1986	6.7 °C23 July 1986	19.7 °C	1,286 mm	17
1985	31.9 °C16 October 1985	5.4 °C14 July 1985	19.9 °C	1,238 mm	22
1984	34.4 °C5 September 1984	6.1 °C18 June 1984	20.4 °C	1,140 mm	44
1983	33.9 °C31 October 1983	7.9 °C21 July 1983	21.1 °C	1,061 mm	62
1982	33.2 °C7 November 1982	6.4 °C16 July 1982	20.2 °C	1,124 mm	28
1981	34.9 °C8 November 1981	6.0 °C18 June 1981	19.9 °C	1,260 mm	53
1980	33.2 °C17 October 1980	6.0 °C21 June 1980	20.0 °C	1,129 mm	26
1979	34.2 °C23 September 1979	6.5 °C6 July 1979	19.7 °C	1,034 mm	38
1978	35.3 °C30 September 1978	6.9 °C28 June 1978	19.9 °C	1,717 mm	46
1977	34.9 °C19 October 1977	7.8 °C20 June 1977	20.6 °C	1,290 mm	58
1976	34.8 °C26 October 1976	7.7 °C11 August 1976	19.6 °C	1,330 mm	36
1975	35.4 °C26 October 1975	6.8 °C26 July 1975	19.8 °C	1,096 mm	40
1974	35.4 °C18 October 1974	6.7 °C28 July 1974	19.3 °C	1,505 mm	35
1973	34.3 °C27 October 1973	6.8 °C10 July 1973	20.2 °C	1,155 mm	34
1972	34.2 °C23 November 1972	7.4 °C3 July 1972	20.2 °C	1,047 mm	51
1971	33.6 °C1 November 1971	8.3 °C12 June 1971	20.1 °C	1,117 mm	29
1970	35.2 °C8 October 1970	8.5 °C20 June 1970	20.6 °C	1,010 mm	36
1969	35.0 °C26 November 1969	7.4 °C25 July 1969	20.3 °C	1,431 mm	42
1968	35.6 °C28 October 1968	3.3 °C17 June 1968	20.5 °C	1,001 mm	40
1967	34.8 °C6 October 1967	5.5 °C13 July 1967	20.0 °C	1,034 mm	41
1966	35.0 °C31 October 1966	5.7 °C28 July 1966	20.6 °C	1,035 mm	55
1965	34.4 °C2 November 1965	5.7 °C4 July 1965	19.9 °C	637 mm	34
1964	34.5 °C26 October 1964	4.8 °C29 June 1964	20.2 °C	1,091 mm	45
1963	34.5 °C7 October 1963	7.5 °C9 June 1963	20.1 °C	1,285 mm	28
1962	34.8 °C18 October 1962	8.9 °C17 July 1962	20.1 °C	1,409 mm	42
1961	35.9 °C15 October 1961	8.6 °C11 August 1961	20.0 °C	1,342 mm	41
1960	34.4 °C10 October 1960	6.8 °C3 July 1960	20.1 °C	991 mm	54
1959	34.3 °C4 October 1959	8.3 °C23 July 1959	20.2 °C	1,236 mm	43
1958	34.2 °C17 October 1958	8.2 °C28 July 1958	20.0 °C	1,876 mm	26
1957	36.4 °C25 November 1957	8.2 °C9 June 1957	20.5 °C	1,448 mm	73
1956	34.2 °C16 October 1956	7.9 °C16 July 1956	19.6 °C	1,747 mm	38
1955	35.9 °C14 November 1955	8.5 °C29 July 1955	19.8 °C	1,502 mm	47
1954	37.0 °C27 October 1954	8.4 °C21 June 1954	21.2 °C	708 mm	74
1953	35.2 °C31 October 1953	7.1 °C12 June 1953	19.8 °C	1,449 mm	44
1952	35.6 °C2 October 1952	9.4 °C4 July 1952	20.6 °C	1,342 mm	57
1951	36.6 °C28 November 1951	8.6 °C20 July 1951	21.6 °C	796 mm	93
1950	35.4 °C24 October 1950	7.8 °C20 August 1950	19.9 °C	1,319 mm	51
1949	36.8 °C3 November 1949	8.4 °C19 July 1949	20.7 °C	1,427 mm	68
1948	35.6 °C13 October 1948	8.4 °C5 July 1948	20.1 °C	1,547 mm	55
1947	35.2 °C5 November 1947	8.0 °C8 July 1947	20.3 °C	1,421 mm	56
1946	36.2 °C24 October 1946	7.9 °C9 July 1946	19.9 °C	1,692 mm	49
1945	35.1 °C13 October 1945	7.8 °C20 June 1945	20.5 °C	1,161 mm	59
1944	35.4 °C27 September 1944	8.5 °C13 July 1944	20.3 °C	1,237 mm	55
1943	36.3 °C25 November 1943	6.8 °C28 June 1943	20.4 °C	1,274 mm	65
1942	35.3 °C13 October 1942	8.5 °C2 August 1942	20.4 °C	1,361 mm	48
1941	37.2 °C12 October 1941	8.8 °C5 July 1941	21.3 °C	974 mm	74
1940	33.9 °C7 October 1940	8.3 °C15 July 1940	20.0 °C	1,320 mm	50

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

A specific year

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

26.9 °C

+0.8 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

68 d/yr

+16

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

1315 mm

+107 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	26.7 °C	+1.1 °C	378 mm	+72 mm
Feb	27.1 °C	+1.4 °C	266 mm	+7 mm
Mar	27.4 °C	+1.6 °C	102 mm	-52 mm
Apr	26.2 °C	+0.7 °C	78 mm	+40 mm
May	24.5 °C	+0.1 °C	11 mm	+4 mm
Jun	23.8 °C	+1.3 °C	1 mm	-2 mm
Jul	22.6 °C	+0.2 °C	4 mm	+2 mm
Aug	27.0 °C	+1.7 °C	0 mm	-1 mm
Sep	31.4 °C	+2.3 °C	2 mm	0 mm
Oct	32.2 °C	+1.1 °C	2 mm	-17 mm
Nov	28.0 °C	-1.0 °C	201 mm	+67 mm
Dec	26.0 °C	-0.4 °C	272 mm	-12 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

36.1 °C

2 Nov 2025

Coldest day

7.8 °C

11 Jul 2025

Wettest day

43.0 mm

29 Jan 2025

Windiest day

32.7 km/h

28 Jul 2025

Strongest gust

68.8 km/h

3 Nov 2025

Hottest feels-like

37.0 °C

26 Oct 2025

Coldest feels-like

4.9 °C

31 Jul 2025

Sunniest day

12.7 h

13 Jan 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Ntandabale?

Ntandabale has a humid subtropical, dry winter climate (Köppen Cwa). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 20.5 °C and it receives 1,208 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Ntandabale?

The hottest day measured in Ntandabale between 1940 and 2025 was 18 October 2017, reaching 38.1 °C.

What is the coldest day in Ntandabale?

The coldest day measured in Ntandabale between 1940 and 2025 was 17 June 1968, at 3.3 °C.

Does it snow in Ntandabale?

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

Has the climate of Ntandabale warmed?

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

What is the wettest day in Ntandabale?

The wettest day measured in Ntandabale between 1940 and 2025 was 7 November 1973, with 98 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Ntandabale?

The windiest day measured in Ntandabale between 1940 and 2025 was 15 October 1977, with winds reaching 34.4 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Ntandabale?

The warmest month in Ntandabale is October (25.0 °C on average); the coldest is July (16.0 °C).

How much does it rain in Ntandabale?

Ntandabale receives on average 1,208 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 129 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Ntandabale?

Ntandabale gets on average 10.7 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,905 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Are there tropical nights in Ntandabale?

Yes: Ntandabale has on average 31 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Ntandabale?

In Ntandabale, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 40.2 °C on 8 January 2016, and the lowest was -0.6 °C on 17 June 1968.

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