Senanga climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Senanga?

Senanga has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 22.6 °C and it receives 937 mm of precipitation per year.

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

The hottest day measured in Senanga between 1940 and 2025 was 12 October 1941, reaching 40.3 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Senanga?

The coldest day measured in Senanga between 1940 and 2025 was 27 June 2011, at 0.7 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Senanga?

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

Q: Has the climate of Senanga warmed?

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

Q: What is the wettest day in Senanga?

The wettest day measured in Senanga between 1940 and 2025 was 28 January 2022, with 130 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Senanga?

The windiest day measured in Senanga between 1940 and 2025 was 15 October 1977, with winds reaching 28.6 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Senanga?

The warmest month in Senanga is October (27.2 °C on average); the coldest is July (18.0 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Senanga?

Senanga receives on average 937 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 114 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Senanga?

Senanga gets on average 10.8 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,942 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Senanga (Zambia) has a tropical savanna climate (Aw) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 22.6 °C and it receives 937 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 (27.2 °C on average) and the coldest is July (18.0 °C). Rainfall peaks in January.

Senanga averages 0 frost days, 132 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 114 rainy days per year.

Senanga 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 40.3 °C (on 12 October 1941) and the coldest 0.7 °C (on 27 June 2011).

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

SenangaWestern Province

coords: -16.12°, 23.27°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

AwTropical savannaWarmest monthOctoberColdest monthJulyWettest monthJanuaryDriest monthJuly

Mean daily temperature

22.6°C

Average daily high

29.2°C

Average daily low

16.7°C

Annual rainfall

937mm

Sunshine / day

10.8h

Mean relative humidity

55%

Average peak wind

13.4km/h

Seasonal range

9.2°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

132 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

114 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.0 cm

Average feels-like high

30.1 °C

Average feels-like low

16.3 °C

Average peak gust

32.5 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

69 d/yr

Solar radiation

21.2 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+1.1 °C

since 1940

+0.1 °C per decade · r² = 0.37 · 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

40.3 °C

12 October 1941

Coldest day

0.7 °C

27 June 2011

Wettest day

130 mm

28 January 2022

Windiest day

28.6 km/h

15 October 1977

Strongest gust

61.9 km/h

29 January 2022

Hottest feels-like

40.9 °C

9 November 2020

Coldest feels-like

-3.3 °C

27 June 2011

Sunniest day

13.0 h

28 December 1941

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days
2025	38.2 °C17 October 2025	2.6 °C9 August 2025	22.9 °C	954 mm	174
2024	39.7 °C28 September 2024	4.2 °C10 July 2024	23.9 °C	497 mm	270
2023	38.3 °C9 October 2023	6.8 °C11 July 2023	23.7 °C	759 mm	216
2022	37.1 °C5 October 2022	6.9 °C24 May 2022	22.8 °C	1,025 mm	130
2021	38.7 °C10 October 2021	6.0 °C5 July 2021	23.0 °C	932 mm	162
2020	38.9 °C5 October 2020	6.2 °C6 July 2020	22.8 °C	1,185 mm	130
2019	38.4 °C23 October 2019	5.8 °C30 July 2019	23.6 °C	624 mm	192
2018	37.6 °C2 November 2018	7.4 °C9 June 2018	23.5 °C	934 mm	167
2017	39.7 °C18 October 2017	6.8 °C23 June 2017	23.0 °C	1,186 mm	126
2016	39.4 °C17 October 2016	7.0 °C11 June 2016	23.5 °C	934 mm	163
2015	38.5 °C10 November 2015	5.2 °C28 July 2015	23.5 °C	585 mm	173
2014	38.3 °C14 October 2014	6.0 °C7 June 2014	23.2 °C	828 mm	136
2013	38.5 °C28 September 2013	6.8 °C16 June 2013	23.3 °C	986 mm	180
2012	38.0 °C12 October 2012	3.0 °C22 July 2012	22.9 °C	1,059 mm	137
2011	38.8 °C25 October 2011	0.7 °C27 June 2011	22.6 °C	1,068 mm	130
2010	39.2 °C13 October 2010	4.6 °C11 July 2010	23.2 °C	1,051 mm	132
2009	38.1 °C9 October 2009	6.2 °C27 June 2009	22.8 °C	884 mm	117
2008	38.6 °C29 October 2008	7.3 °C3 July 2008	22.5 °C	1,272 mm	115
2007	36.9 °C24 September 2007	5.8 °C25 July 2007	22.6 °C	910 mm	144
2006	36.9 °C25 October 2006	3.0 °C4 August 2006	22.4 °C	986 mm	115
2005	39.3 °C22 October 2005	7.4 °C21 June 2005	23.6 °C	742 mm	186
2004	36.9 °C7 October 2004	3.9 °C29 July 2004	22.6 °C	1,003 mm	143
2003	38.7 °C15 October 2003	7.3 °C3 July 2003	23.1 °C	795 mm	154
2002	37.4 °C20 October 2002	8.0 °C27 June 2002	23.2 °C	712 mm	166
2001	37.3 °C26 September 2001	5.8 °C21 July 2001	22.5 °C	961 mm	114
2000	37.4 °C6 October 2000	6.7 °C20 July 2000	22.6 °C	963 mm	103
1999	36.8 °C3 November 1999	6.7 °C15 June 1999	22.6 °C	778 mm	118
1998	39.0 °C8 October 1998	7.6 °C15 June 1998	23.3 °C	823 mm	172
1997	38.1 °C25 September 1997	3.1 °C1 July 1997	23.0 °C	950 mm	161
1996	38.4 °C14 November 1996	4.4 °C3 July 1996	23.2 °C	901 mm	166
1995	38.3 °C12 October 1995	4.3 °C18 June 1995	23.8 °C	568 mm	199
1994	37.9 °C28 October 1994	1.6 °C30 June 1994	22.8 °C	765 mm	177
1993	37.3 °C3 November 1993	7.5 °C15 June 1993	22.5 °C	1,127 mm	113
1992	36.6 °C24 September 1992	5.8 °C7 July 1992	23.2 °C	654 mm	186
1991	37.0 °C8 October 1991	6.9 °C12 July 1991	22.6 °C	822 mm	124
1990	38.2 °C6 November 1990	7.0 °C18 July 1990	23.0 °C	935 mm	144
1989	36.3 °C24 September 1989	5.3 °C18 June 1989	22.8 °C	822 mm	131
1988	36.7 °C10 October 1988	5.6 °C19 July 1988	22.8 °C	829 mm	134
1987	39.1 °C17 November 1987	4.4 °C23 July 1987	23.4 °C	793 mm	190
1986	36.2 °C25 September 1986	7.1 °C26 June 1986	22.0 °C	876 mm	108
1985	35.9 °C20 September 1985	3.6 °C14 July 1985	22.5 °C	826 mm	136
1984	35.9 °C21 October 1984	6.5 °C20 June 1984	22.6 °C	798 mm	135
1983	37.2 °C17 September 1983	6.1 °C10 August 1983	23.1 °C	830 mm	156
1982	36.3 °C10 November 1982	6.4 °C13 July 1982	22.5 °C	811 mm	122
1981	37.5 °C8 November 1981	5.6 °C22 June 1981	22.1 °C	910 mm	110
1980	36.4 °C19 September 1980	5.7 °C1 July 1980	22.5 °C	610 mm	138
1979	38.0 °C24 September 1979	6.0 °C7 July 1979	22.1 °C	887 mm	104
1978	37.5 °C30 September 1978	5.8 °C16 June 1978	22.0 °C	1,202 mm	110
1977	37.2 °C2 November 1977	6.4 °C27 June 1977	22.7 °C	991 mm	130
1976	37.9 °C27 October 1976	4.7 °C15 July 1976	21.4 °C	1,026 mm	84
1975	37.2 °C4 November 1975	5.5 °C27 July 1975	22.0 °C	837 mm	110
1974	36.6 °C19 October 1974	5.4 °C4 July 1974	21.7 °C	1,070 mm	92
1973	37.2 °C28 October 1973	6.3 °C17 July 1973	22.8 °C	810 mm	159
1972	38.1 °C21 October 1972	5.9 °C25 June 1972	22.1 °C	795 mm	125
1971	36.1 °C4 October 1971	5.9 °C14 June 1971	22.3 °C	818 mm	126
1970	36.3 °C6 October 1970	6.3 °C1 July 1970	22.6 °C	726 mm	125
1969	35.8 °C11 October 1969	7.8 °C26 July 1969	21.8 °C	1,372 mm	64
1968	37.9 °C25 October 1968	2.1 °C15 June 1968	22.2 °C	894 mm	117
1967	37.0 °C7 October 1967	5.1 °C21 July 1967	22.3 °C	902 mm	91
1966	37.4 °C30 October 1966	6.0 °C3 August 1966	22.9 °C	919 mm	133
1965	37.7 °C30 October 1965	4.5 °C7 July 1965	22.2 °C	753 mm	106
1964	37.3 °C2 October 1964	3.6 °C22 June 1964	22.1 °C	785 mm	136
1963	35.8 °C22 September 1963	6.7 °C5 July 1963	22.0 °C	993 mm	85
1962	37.3 °C4 November 1962	6.1 °C29 June 1962	22.3 °C	1,162 mm	88
1961	37.6 °C16 October 1961	6.8 °C11 August 1961	22.1 °C	994 mm	80
1960	37.7 °C22 October 1960	5.5 °C27 July 1960	22.2 °C	841 mm	116
1959	37.5 °C13 October 1959	6.4 °C2 August 1959	22.4 °C	948 mm	120
1958	35.9 °C4 October 1958	5.5 °C17 June 1958	22.0 °C	1,692 mm	99
1957	37.0 °C13 October 1957	7.0 °C20 June 1957	22.3 °C	1,588 mm	105
1956	37.2 °C16 October 1956	6.0 °C20 June 1956	21.7 °C	832 mm	86
1955	37.3 °C13 October 1955	6.1 °C22 July 1955	21.9 °C	1,355 mm	88
1954	39.2 °C24 October 1954	3.0 °C26 July 1954	23.3 °C	343 mm	199
1953	38.8 °C30 October 1953	4.2 °C24 June 1953	21.9 °C	1,515 mm	75
1952	38.0 °C29 October 1952	2.6 °C6 August 1952	22.7 °C	1,001 mm	117
1951	38.3 °C5 October 1951	4.7 °C15 July 1951	22.5 °C	916 mm	131
1950	36.5 °C5 November 1950	6.2 °C11 August 1950	21.9 °C	1,186 mm	105
1949	38.2 °C5 October 1949	5.7 °C11 July 1949	22.8 °C	845 mm	139
1948	37.1 °C16 September 1948	6.2 °C21 July 1948	21.8 °C	1,447 mm	67
1947	37.7 °C9 October 1947	5.6 °C19 July 1947	22.3 °C	1,188 mm	86
1946	37.9 °C25 October 1946	5.0 °C11 July 1946	22.4 °C	973 mm	136
1945	37.5 °C5 October 1945	6.0 °C7 July 1945	22.7 °C	1,057 mm	123
1944	39.2 °C27 September 1944	7.0 °C14 July 1944	22.9 °C	948 mm	124
1943	37.5 °C11 October 1943	6.0 °C29 June 1943	22.2 °C	912 mm	106
1942	38.0 °C13 October 1942	3.3 °C21 July 1942	22.3 °C	1,031 mm	102
1941	40.3 °C12 October 1941	5.6 °C23 June 1941	22.9 °C	772 mm	155
1940	36.9 °C17 October 1940	4.8 °C19 July 1940	22.0 °C	961 mm	104

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

A specific year

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

30.0 °C

+0.8 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

174 d/yr

+42

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

954 mm

+17 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	28.9 °C	+0.9 °C	286 mm	+51 mm
Feb	29.8 °C	+1.6 °C	179 mm	-15 mm
Mar	30.5 °C	+1.9 °C	51 mm	-75 mm
Apr	29.5 °C	+0.3 °C	47 mm	+22 mm
May	28.0 °C	0.0 °C	1 mm	-1 mm
Jun	26.0 °C	+0.1 °C	0 mm	+0 mm
Jul	26.2 °C	+0.1 °C	0 mm	0 mm
Aug	30.6 °C	+1.3 °C	0 mm	-0 mm
Sep	35.3 °C	+2.1 °C	0 mm	-2 mm
Oct	35.4 °C	+1.2 °C	12 mm	-16 mm
Nov	30.7 °C	0.0 °C	139 mm	+10 mm
Dec	28.9 °C	+0.3 °C	240 mm	+42 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

38.2 °C

17 Oct 2025

Coldest day

2.6 °C

9 Aug 2025

Wettest day

42.9 mm

22 Jan 2025

Windiest day

25.4 km/h

9 Jul 2025

Strongest gust

54.0 km/h

9 Jul 2025

Hottest feels-like

38.4 °C

1 Nov 2025

Coldest feels-like

-1.4 °C

9 Aug 2025

Sunniest day

13.0 h

28 Dec 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Senanga?

Senanga has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 22.6 °C and it receives 937 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Senanga?

The hottest day measured in Senanga between 1940 and 2025 was 12 October 1941, reaching 40.3 °C.

What is the coldest day in Senanga?

The coldest day measured in Senanga between 1940 and 2025 was 27 June 2011, at 0.7 °C.

Does it snow in Senanga?

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

Has the climate of Senanga warmed?

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

What is the wettest day in Senanga?

The wettest day measured in Senanga between 1940 and 2025 was 28 January 2022, with 130 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Senanga?

The windiest day measured in Senanga between 1940 and 2025 was 15 October 1977, with winds reaching 28.6 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Senanga?

The warmest month in Senanga is October (27.2 °C on average); the coldest is July (18.0 °C).

How much does it rain in Senanga?

Senanga receives on average 937 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 114 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Senanga?

Senanga gets on average 10.8 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,942 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Are there tropical nights in Senanga?

Yes: Senanga has on average 69 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Senanga?

In Senanga, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 40.9 °C on 9 November 2020, and the lowest was -3.3 °C on 27 June 2011.

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