Serenje climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Serenje?

Serenje has a hot-summer mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 19.5 °C and it receives 1,098 mm of precipitation per year.

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

The hottest day measured in Serenje between 1940 and 2025 was 18 October 2017, reaching 36.5 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Serenje?

The coldest day measured in Serenje between 1940 and 2025 was 28 June 1964, at 4.4 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Serenje?

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

Q: Has the climate of Serenje warmed?

Yes: Serenje warmed by +1.2 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Serenje?

The wettest day measured in Serenje between 1940 and 2025 was 5 March 2006, with 97 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Serenje?

The windiest day measured in Serenje between 1940 and 2025 was 10 February 2018, with winds reaching 32.1 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Serenje?

The warmest month in Serenje is October (23.5 °C on average); the coldest is July (15.3 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Serenje?

Serenje receives on average 1,098 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 134 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Serenje?

Serenje gets on average 10.5 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,833 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Serenje (Zambia) has a hot-summer mediterranean climate (Csa) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 19.5 °C and it receives 1,098 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 (23.5 °C on average) and the coldest is July (15.3 °C). Rainfall peaks in January.

Serenje averages 0 frost days, 32 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 134 rainy days per year.

Serenje has warmed by +1.2 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.13 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The hottest day of the period reached 36.5 °C (on 18 October 2017) and the coldest 4.4 °C (on 28 June 1964).

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

SerenjeCentral Province

coords: -13.23°, 30.24°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

CsaHot-summer MediterraneanWarmest monthOctoberColdest monthJulyWettest monthJanuaryDriest monthAugust

Mean daily temperature

19.5°C

Average daily high

24.9°C

Average daily low

15.0°C

Annual rainfall

1,098mm

Sunshine / day

10.5h

Mean relative humidity

67%

Average peak wind

15.4km/h

Seasonal range

8.2°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

32 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

134 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.0 cm

Average feels-like high

25.6 °C

Average feels-like low

14.2 °C

Average peak gust

35.7 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

5 d/yr

Solar radiation

20.2 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+1.2 °C

since 1940

+0.1 °C per decade · r² = 0.46 · 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

36.5 °C

18 October 2017

Coldest day

4.4 °C

28 June 1964

Wettest day

97 mm

5 March 2006

Windiest day

32.1 km/h

10 February 2018

Strongest gust

79.9 km/h

22 February 1958

Hottest feels-like

38.2 °C

13 October 2023

Coldest feels-like

0.6 °C

15 June 1968

Sunniest day

12.6 h

9 November 1940

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days
2025	34.6 °C29 September 2025	6.3 °C31 July 2025	19.8 °C	1,275 mm	37
2024	34.1 °C26 October 2024	6.2 °C15 June 2024	20.6 °C	697 mm	60
2023	35.7 °C14 October 2023	8.2 °C14 July 2023	20.6 °C	1,164 mm	60
2022	33.4 °C26 October 2022	8.7 °C13 June 2022	19.9 °C	1,387 mm	32
2021	35.1 °C9 November 2021	7.2 °C28 July 2021	20.1 °C	1,167 mm	62
2020	34.3 °C8 November 2020	7.4 °C6 July 2020	20.0 °C	1,182 mm	41
2019	36.0 °C29 October 2019	7.1 °C23 July 2019	20.2 °C	1,090 mm	42
2018	33.9 °C2 November 2018	6.7 °C8 June 2018	20.0 °C	1,188 mm	33
2017	36.5 °C18 October 2017	7.8 °C14 July 2017	19.9 °C	1,208 mm	27
2016	34.4 °C10 November 2016	7.5 °C9 June 2016	20.3 °C	1,069 mm	56
2015	34.2 °C14 November 2015	7.3 °C12 July 2015	20.2 °C	979 mm	48
2014	34.6 °C16 October 2014	7.4 °C12 July 2014	20.3 °C	954 mm	52
2013	34.3 °C1 November 2013	8.0 °C10 July 2013	20.1 °C	861 mm	52
2012	34.5 °C18 October 2012	6.0 °C20 July 2012	19.8 °C	1,074 mm	41
2011	34.7 °C25 October 2011	7.1 °C24 July 2011	19.6 °C	893 mm	23
2010	34.0 °C12 October 2010	6.2 °C15 August 2010	19.8 °C	1,310 mm	41
2009	32.4 °C18 September 2009	7.1 °C28 July 2009	19.3 °C	1,176 mm	27
2008	33.0 °C4 November 2008	6.2 °C1 July 2008	19.3 °C	1,042 mm	37
2007	32.5 °C24 September 2007	6.6 °C15 June 2007	19.6 °C	1,291 mm	20
2006	33.0 °C3 November 2006	6.7 °C6 June 2006	19.5 °C	1,223 mm	31
2005	33.3 °C21 October 2005	7.6 °C3 July 2005	20.2 °C	791 mm	34
2004	33.9 °C9 October 2004	6.2 °C9 July 2004	19.3 °C	1,210 mm	22
2003	34.2 °C15 October 2003	6.5 °C10 July 2003	19.6 °C	1,097 mm	38
2002	32.9 °C5 November 2002	6.6 °C19 June 2002	19.9 °C	953 mm	33
2001	33.6 °C18 October 2001	7.3 °C27 July 2001	19.7 °C	1,050 mm	36
2000	32.9 °C27 October 2000	7.7 °C25 July 2000	19.3 °C	1,214 mm	18
1999	34.1 °C23 October 1999	6.0 °C24 June 1999	19.4 °C	1,009 mm	25
1998	33.9 °C7 November 1998	6.7 °C15 June 1998	20.2 °C	953 mm	37
1997	33.2 °C10 November 1997	7.4 °C20 June 1997	19.7 °C	1,146 mm	20
1996	33.4 °C3 December 1996	6.2 °C3 July 1996	19.9 °C	942 mm	48
1995	33.4 °C26 October 1995	6.4 °C3 July 1995	20.3 °C	939 mm	48
1994	33.9 °C24 November 1994	5.3 °C16 July 1994	19.8 °C	871 mm	29
1993	33.1 °C4 November 1993	6.7 °C11 June 1993	19.7 °C	1,211 mm	22
1992	34.3 °C31 October 1992	5.8 °C14 August 1992	20.3 °C	772 mm	39
1991	32.0 °C9 October 1991	6.0 °C14 August 1991	19.6 °C	970 mm	19
1990	34.2 °C16 October 1990	7.1 °C4 July 1990	19.9 °C	865 mm	38
1989	33.8 °C10 November 1989	6.4 °C19 June 1989	19.4 °C	1,217 mm	34
1988	32.6 °C10 October 1988	6.9 °C17 July 1988	19.7 °C	1,009 mm	17
1987	33.7 °C20 November 1987	7.1 °C24 June 1987	20.3 °C	847 mm	36
1986	33.0 °C7 October 1986	5.6 °C27 June 1986	19.1 °C	1,161 mm	9
1985	30.6 °C2 November 1985	6.0 °C16 July 1985	19.0 °C	1,282 mm	10
1984	33.4 °C15 October 1984	6.0 °C18 June 1984	19.5 °C	1,063 mm	35
1983	34.2 °C11 November 1983	6.9 °C21 July 1983	20.2 °C	1,090 mm	41
1982	33.1 °C9 November 1982	6.6 °C17 May 1982	19.4 °C	1,120 mm	16
1981	33.7 °C4 October 1981	6.2 °C18 June 1981	19.5 °C	856 mm	42
1980	31.9 °C17 October 1980	7.3 °C12 July 1980	19.1 °C	1,081 mm	12
1979	32.4 °C30 October 1979	7.3 °C14 July 1979	18.8 °C	1,088 mm	24
1978	32.8 °C30 September 1978	6.4 °C20 July 1978	19.2 °C	1,586 mm	28
1977	33.0 °C19 October 1977	6.4 °C11 July 1977	19.5 °C	1,233 mm	31
1976	33.1 °C26 October 1976	7.1 °C4 July 1976	18.7 °C	1,293 mm	20
1975	32.7 °C21 November 1975	5.4 °C26 July 1975	19.0 °C	871 mm	13
1974	32.8 °C18 October 1974	5.7 °C29 July 1974	18.7 °C	1,319 mm	22
1973	33.6 °C28 October 1973	6.5 °C12 July 1973	19.3 °C	894 mm	26
1972	32.4 °C25 September 1972	6.9 °C28 June 1972	19.2 °C	1,040 mm	35
1971	32.6 °C8 November 1971	7.0 °C7 June 1971	19.0 °C	1,079 mm	15
1970	32.4 °C8 October 1970	7.5 °C20 June 1970	19.4 °C	1,024 mm	23
1969	34.2 °C27 November 1969	5.9 °C25 July 1969	19.4 °C	1,149 mm	31
1968	33.8 °C4 October 1968	5.4 °C15 June 1968	19.2 °C	889 mm	27
1967	32.7 °C7 October 1967	5.4 °C19 July 1967	19.0 °C	914 mm	14
1966	31.9 °C14 October 1966	4.5 °C28 July 1966	19.4 °C	943 mm	31
1965	31.6 °C25 September 1965	5.1 °C5 July 1965	18.8 °C	923 mm	19
1964	31.8 °C26 October 1964	4.4 °C28 June 1964	19.0 °C	976 mm	23
1963	31.9 °C8 October 1963	7.2 °C7 June 1963	19.1 °C	1,225 mm	22
1962	32.3 °C15 October 1962	8.0 °C26 June 1962	19.1 °C	1,251 mm	19
1961	32.8 °C15 October 1961	7.5 °C12 August 1961	18.8 °C	1,406 mm	19
1960	31.3 °C6 November 1960	6.3 °C3 July 1960	18.9 °C	964 mm	18
1959	31.8 °C4 October 1959	9.0 °C3 July 1959	18.9 °C	1,290 mm	10
1958	32.3 °C17 October 1958	6.6 °C12 August 1958	19.1 °C	1,491 mm	15
1957	34.3 °C25 November 1957	7.6 °C9 June 1957	19.2 °C	1,474 mm	56
1956	32.0 °C22 September 1956	6.2 °C27 July 1956	18.7 °C	1,329 mm	27
1955	33.1 °C22 October 1955	6.3 °C11 August 1955	18.7 °C	1,263 mm	30
1954	34.3 °C27 October 1954	6.2 °C22 June 1954	19.6 °C	744 mm	25
1953	33.5 °C10 November 1953	6.1 °C14 June 1953	18.7 °C	1,387 mm	33
1952	33.8 °C2 October 1952	7.9 °C4 July 1952	19.5 °C	1,075 mm	40
1951	33.5 °C16 October 1951	7.5 °C15 June 1951	20.0 °C	785 mm	48
1950	32.2 °C22 October 1950	6.6 °C10 June 1950	18.6 °C	1,275 mm	20
1949	34.8 °C3 November 1949	7.1 °C23 June 1949	19.4 °C	1,173 mm	35
1948	33.6 °C13 October 1948	7.4 °C6 July 1948	19.2 °C	1,293 mm	43
1947	33.2 °C20 October 1947	6.9 °C5 July 1947	19.1 °C	1,267 mm	36
1946	33.8 °C25 October 1946	6.6 °C1 June 1946	18.9 °C	1,197 mm	34
1945	32.6 °C13 October 1945	7.3 °C17 June 1945	19.1 °C	1,055 mm	41
1944	33.0 °C27 September 1944	7.8 °C19 May 1944	19.1 °C	1,036 mm	37
1943	34.4 °C30 November 1943	6.8 °C28 June 1943	19.4 °C	947 mm	60
1942	33.2 °C22 September 1942	6.7 °C1 August 1942	19.4 °C	1,068 mm	45
1941	35.0 °C21 October 1941	7.8 °C6 July 1941	19.8 °C	894 mm	41
1940	32.0 °C18 October 1940	6.3 °C16 July 1940	18.9 °C	1,328 mm	13

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

A specific year

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

25.4 °C

+0.5 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

37 d/yr

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

1275 mm

+177 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	25.2 °C	+0.7 °C	325 mm	+61 mm
Feb	26.0 °C	+1.3 °C	189 mm	-42 mm
Mar	26.1 °C	+1.5 °C	90 mm	-84 mm
Apr	25.5 °C	+1.4 °C	77 mm	+32 mm
May	22.5 °C	-0.7 °C	29 mm	+22 mm
Jun	22.6 °C	+1.0 °C	5 mm	+3 mm
Jul	21.2 °C	-0.3 °C	5 mm	+3 mm
Aug	24.9 °C	+0.6 °C	1 mm	-1 mm
Sep	29.3 °C	+1.6 °C	0 mm	-1 mm
Oct	30.2 °C	+0.6 °C	3 mm	-12 mm
Nov	27.2 °C	-0.8 °C	247 mm	+139 mm
Dec	24.6 °C	-0.7 °C	305 mm	+58 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

34.6 °C

29 Sep 2025

Coldest day

6.3 °C

31 Jul 2025

Wettest day

38.0 mm

29 Jan 2025

Windiest day

30.3 km/h

28 Jul 2025

Strongest gust

61.2 km/h

28 Jul 2025

Hottest feels-like

36.3 °C

26 Oct 2025

Coldest feels-like

3.3 °C

5 Aug 2025

Sunniest day

12.6 h

27 Nov 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Serenje?

Serenje has a hot-summer mediterranean climate (Köppen Csa). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 19.5 °C and it receives 1,098 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Serenje?

The hottest day measured in Serenje between 1940 and 2025 was 18 October 2017, reaching 36.5 °C.

What is the coldest day in Serenje?

The coldest day measured in Serenje between 1940 and 2025 was 28 June 1964, at 4.4 °C.

Does it snow in Serenje?

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

Has the climate of Serenje warmed?

Yes: Serenje warmed by +1.2 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Serenje?

The wettest day measured in Serenje between 1940 and 2025 was 5 March 2006, with 97 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Serenje?

The windiest day measured in Serenje between 1940 and 2025 was 10 February 2018, with winds reaching 32.1 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Serenje?

The warmest month in Serenje is October (23.5 °C on average); the coldest is July (15.3 °C).

How much does it rain in Serenje?

Serenje receives on average 1,098 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 134 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Serenje?

Serenje gets on average 10.5 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,833 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Are there tropical nights in Serenje?

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

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Serenje?

In Serenje, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 38.2 °C on 13 October 2023, and the lowest was 0.6 °C on 15 June 1968.

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