Ifakara climate

Name: Ifakara
Address: TZ

Ifakara is warmest in November, with average highs of 33 °C, and coldest in July, when nights average 17 °C. March is the wettest month (189 mm) and July the driest (7.5 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Ifakara averages 883 mm of rain and 358 days above 25 °C.

Tanzania · population 205,843 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month November 33 °C
Coldest month July 17 °C
Driest month July 7 mm
Wettest month March 189 mm
Least cloud September 40 % cloud
Hottest on record December 38 °C
Coldest on record June 13 °C

What to expectIfakara through the year

Ifakara has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 27 °C in July to 33 °C in November, a swing of 5.6 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 358 days a year reach 25 °C, 138 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C, in December.

Rain is strongly seasonal. March averages 189 mm against 7 mm in July — 25 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	31.1 °C	145 mm	73 %
February	30.6 °C	133 mm	75 %
March	29.0 °C	189 mm	76 %
April	27.5 °C	160 mm	70 %
May	27.1 °C	55 mm	52 %
June	26.6 °C	9 mm	45 %
July	26.7 °C	7 mm	47 %
August	27.9 °C	10 mm	46 %
September	30.1 °C	8 mm	40 %
October	31.9 °C	24 mm	42 %
November	32.8 °C	42 mm	50 %
December	32.0 °C	100 mm	61 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	31.1 °C	22.9 °C	26.6 °C	37.6 °C	21.0 °C	31	19
February	30.6 °C	22.8 °C	26.2 °C	36.7 °C	20.2 °C	28	16
March	29.0 °C	22.4 °C	25.2 °C	34.2 °C	20.0 °C	31	8
April	27.5 °C	21.5 °C	24.0 °C	30.1 °C	16.8 °C	29	0
May	27.1 °C	19.8 °C	23.2 °C	30.7 °C	14.3 °C	30	0
June	26.6 °C	17.8 °C	21.9 °C	29.8 °C	12.5 °C	28	0
July	26.7 °C	17.2 °C	21.7 °C	30.2 °C	13.1 °C	29	0
August	27.9 °C	18.1 °C	22.8 °C	32.1 °C	13.4 °C	31	2
September	30.1 °C	19.4 °C	24.7 °C	34.6 °C	16.5 °C	30	16
October	31.9 °C	21.0 °C	26.3 °C	36.4 °C	18.0 °C	31	26
November	32.8 °C	22.4 °C	27.3 °C	37.4 °C	19.3 °C	30	27
December	32.0 °C	22.9 °C	27.1 °C	37.7 °C	19.9 °C	31	24

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	145 mm	17	13 h/day	73 %	77 %	9.1 km/h
February	133 mm	17	12 h/day	75 %	80 %	8.0 km/h
March	189 mm	25	12 h/day	76 %	85 %	7.1 km/h
April	160 mm	23	12 h/day	70 %	86 %	6.9 km/h
May	55 mm	11	12 h/day	52 %	80 %	7.4 km/h
June	9 mm	2	12 h/day	45 %	71 %	8.6 km/h
July	7 mm	2	12 h/day	47 %	66 %	9.1 km/h
August	10 mm	2	12 h/day	46 %	65 %	9.5 km/h
September	8 mm	2	12 h/day	40 %	60 %	12 km/h
October	24 mm	4	12 h/day	42 %	60 %	13 km/h
November	42 mm	7	12 h/day	50 %	63 %	14 km/h
December	100 mm	15	13 h/day	61 %	71 %	11 km/h

How Ifakara compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
Ifakara	33 °C	17 °C	883 mm	358
Iringa · Tanzania	26 °C	11 °C	651 mm	82
Morogoro · Tanzania	31 °C	17 °C	853 mm	357
Dodoma · Tanzania	31 °C	15 °C	438 mm	352
Kibaha · Tanzania	32 °C	20 °C	965 mm	363
Songea · Tanzania	29 °C	12 °C	1,275 mm	199
Dar es Salaam · Tanzania	31 °C	22 °C	942 mm	364

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Ifakara.

QuestionsCommon questions about Ifakara’s climate

When is the best time to visit Ifakara?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. June, July, August sit closest to 20 °C on average, November is the warmest month and July the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Ifakara get?

In November, the warmest month, daily highs average 33 °C. About 138 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 17 °C in July, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Ifakara?

March, averaging 189 mm over 25 days with rain. The driest month is July with 7 mm. The year as a whole averages 883 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Ifakara rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Data point: -8.133°, 36.683° (the coordinates the reanalysis values are taken for)
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.