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Best Time to Visit Zanzibar

Tanzania · -6.17, 39.20 · Africa/Dar_es_Salaam

The reference point is Zanzibar City, not the whole archipelago.

Data source and period: -6.17, 39.20 · 8.84 m

August

92/100

Weather score

September

92/100

Weather score

July

91/100

Weather score

Weather score

Temperature

Rainfall

Rainy days

January

Temperature
28.3°C
High / Low
29.6° / 27.3°
Rainfall
105.6 mm
Rainy days
15.7
Humidity
77%
Wind
20.3 km/h
Weather score
70/100

Highest style score: Beach 75/100

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February

Temperature
28.6°C
High / Low
30.0° / 27.4°
Rainfall
42.1 mm
Rainy days
9.4
Humidity
76%
Wind
17.9 km/h
Weather score
80/100

Highest style score: Beach 88/100

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March

Temperature
28.9°C
High / Low
30.2° / 27.8°
Rainfall
110.0 mm
Rainy days
18.6
Humidity
76%
Wind
14.3 km/h
Weather score
68/100

Highest style score: Beach 75/100

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April

Temperature
28.2°C
High / Low
29.3° / 27.3°
Rainfall
350.4 mm
Rainy days
27.3
Humidity
80%
Wind
18.1 km/h
Weather score
51/100

Highest style score: Beach 59/100

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May

Temperature
27.1°C
High / Low
28.2° / 26.1°
Rainfall
224.3 mm
Rainy days
19.1
Humidity
80%
Wind
24.1 km/h
Weather score
61/100

Highest style score: Beach 60/100

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June

Temperature
26.2°C
High / Low
27.5° / 25.1°
Rainfall
44.1 mm
Rainy days
8.9
Humidity
77%
Wind
25.6 km/h
Weather score
83/100

Highest style score: Beach 85/100

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July

Temperature
25.5°C
High / Low
27.1° / 24.4°
Rainfall
15.9 mm
Rainy days
3.7
Humidity
75%
Wind
26.0 km/h
Weather score
91/100

Highest style score: Beach 91/100

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August

Temperature
25.6°C
High / Low
27.3° / 24.3°
Rainfall
12.8 mm
Rainy days
3.5
Humidity
75%
Wind
22.6 km/h
Weather score
92/100

Highest style score: Beach 93/100

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September

Temperature
26.1°C
High / Low
28.0° / 24.7°
Rainfall
20.1 mm
Rainy days
4.1
Humidity
75%
Wind
21.0 km/h
Weather score
92/100

Highest style score: Beach 94/100

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October

Temperature
27.0°C
High / Low
28.8° / 25.7°
Rainfall
79.2 mm
Rainy days
10.0
Humidity
75%
Wind
18.2 km/h
Weather score
84/100

Highest style score: Beach 85/100

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November

Temperature
27.9°C
High / Low
29.5° / 26.7°
Rainfall
119.6 mm
Rainy days
17.0
Humidity
76%
Wind
15.4 km/h
Weather score
72/100

Highest style score: Beach 75/100

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December

Temperature
28.5°C
High / Low
29.8° / 27.4°
Rainfall
108.9 mm
Rainy days
19.6
Humidity
76%
Wind
16.6 km/h
Weather score
67/100

Highest style score: Beach 73/100

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Monthly climate

Zanzibar
MonthTemperatureHighLowRainfallRainy daysHumidityWindWeather score
January28.3°C29.6°C27.3°C105.6 mm15.777%20.3 km/h70
February28.6°C30.0°C27.4°C42.1 mm9.476%17.9 km/h80
March28.9°C30.2°C27.8°C110.0 mm18.676%14.3 km/h68
April28.2°C29.3°C27.3°C350.4 mm27.380%18.1 km/h51
May27.1°C28.2°C26.1°C224.3 mm19.180%24.1 km/h61
June26.2°C27.5°C25.1°C44.1 mm8.977%25.6 km/h83
July25.5°C27.1°C24.4°C15.9 mm3.775%26.0 km/h91
August25.6°C27.3°C24.3°C12.8 mm3.575%22.6 km/h92
September26.1°C28.0°C24.7°C20.1 mm4.175%21.0 km/h92
October27.0°C28.8°C25.7°C79.2 mm10.075%18.2 km/h84
November27.9°C29.5°C26.7°C119.6 mm17.076%15.4 km/h72
December28.5°C29.8°C27.4°C108.9 mm19.676%16.6 km/h67

Travel style

Beach

Highest style score

September, August, July

City

This is a weather-based suitability score. It does not measure price, safety, crowding, or visitor satisfaction.

August, July, September

Nature

Highest style score

August, September, July

April, May, November / July, August, September. This is a weather-based suitability score. It does not measure price, safety, crowding, or visitor satisfaction.

Similar weather patterns in the same region

Packing notes from the climate statistics

  • Wind: July

This is a weather-based suitability score. It does not measure price, safety, crowding, or visitor satisfaction.

Data source and period

Climate statistics are calculated by WhenToTravel from the NASA Langley Research Center POWER Project Daily API (MERRA-2 meteorology). NASA does not endorse this site.

2016-01-01 – 2025-12-31 · MERRA-2 · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-20T10:20:43.669Z

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Questions about this page

Highest-scoring months
August, September, July
How the weather score works
This is a weather-based suitability score. It does not measure price, safety, crowding, or visitor satisfaction.
Data source and period
Climate statistics are calculated by WhenToTravel from the NASA Langley Research Center POWER Project Daily API (MERRA-2 meteorology). NASA does not endorse this site. 2016-01-01 – 2025-12-31.