Ideal weather days in Dar es Salaam
The best time to visit Dar es Salaam for warm, dry weather is June to October, with 23 to 29 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Dar es Salaam's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in June to October.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Dar es Salaam, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too wet92
- Too hot58
- Too windy16
- Too cold0
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Dar es Salaam averaged 213 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in Tanzania, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in January, February and October (up to 12 a month, 96 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are rare: no month averaged more than 0.
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are wet (more than 1 mm of rain): 92 a year, mostly in April and November. Another 58 are too hot (over 33 °C), mostly in February and March. A day can fail more than one test.
Dar es Salaam weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 33 °C 91 °F | 11 | 3 | 0 | 13 of 31 |
| February | 34 °C 92 °F | 3 | 6 | 0 | 9 of 28 |
| March | 34 °C 92 °F | 9 | 2 | 1 | 8 of 31 |
| April | 31 °C 88 °F | 22 | 0 | 0 | 8 of 30 |
| May | 31 °C 88 °F | 12 | 1 | 1 | 19 of 31 |
| June | 31 °C 87 °F | 5 | 0 | 1 | 25 of 30 |
| July | 31 °C 87 °F | 3 | 0 | 1 | 29 of 31 |
| August | 31 °C 87 °F | 3 | 1 | 0 | 27 of 31 |
| September | 32 °C 89 °F | 6 | 0 | 0 | 26 of 30 |
| October | 32 °C 90 °F | 7 | 1 | 0 | 23 of 31 |
| November | 32 °C 90 °F | 14 | 0 | 1 | 11 of 30 |
| December | 33 °C 91 °F | 11 | 3 | 0 | 15 of 31 |
| Year | 106 | 16 | 5 | 213 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 233 warm, dry days
- 2024 215 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Dar es Salaam for good weather?
The best time to visit Dar es Salaam for warm, dry weather is June to October, with 23 to 29 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in January, February and October (up to 12 a month, 96 a year). Counted from measured days at Mwalimu Julius K Nyerere International station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Dar es Salaam?
On average 106 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was April (22 rain days), the driest February (3).
How many sunny days does Dar es Salaam get a year?
About 5 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in July (1).
How warm does Dar es Salaam get?
The median daily high ranged from 31 °C (87 °F) in June to 34 °C (92 °F) in February.
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Source: Mwalimu Julius K Nyerere International weather station (63894099999), 10 km from the centre of Dar es Salaam, 55 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 85% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.