Historical weather data, all-time temperature records, and monthly climate averages for Maputo, Maputo City, Mozambique. Explore typical weather conditions by week for trip planning, and see how today compares to the historical record.
April 5th in Maputo is a genuinely coin-flip day for rain — historically there's a 52% chance of precipitation, making it one of the wetter dates of the autumn transition. Temperatures tend to stay warm, with an average high of 81° and low of 70°, though the range across 66 years of records is dramatic: anywhere from a sultry 97° in 1998 down to a cool 62° in 1968.
Maputo's weather has real range for a coastal tropical city — the all-time high of 106° hit in November 2020, while the all-time low of just 48° came in June 2022, a 58-degree spread that surprises most visitors. The wettest single day on record dumped 5.52 inches on January 16, 1985, a reminder that the summer rainy season here can be intense.
Maputo is warmest in early January, when average highs peak at 84°, and coolest in late June, when highs dip to a mild 74° — the city never really gets cold. The wettest stretch of the year falls at the end of December, averaging 1.27 inches per week, so travelers looking for drier conditions are best off visiting between May and September.