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Weather extremes
How extreme does Dar es Salaam's weather get?
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Dar es Salaam has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far they sit beyond a normal day.
The four kinds of extreme
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Dar es Salaam has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.
That is about 19°F hotter than a normal July afternoon in Dar es Salaam (typical high near 85°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 18°F colder than a normal August night in Dar es Salaam (typical low near 66°F).
The three most extreme on record
More rain in a single day than Dar es Salaam usually gets in the whole month of April (typical April total about 9.6 in).
The three most extreme on record
How hot and cold it gets, month by month
The shaded band is the normal range of daily temperatures for each month. The dots show the most extreme it has ever been — so you can see how far beyond a normal day the records really sit.
Dar es Salaam's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — July's 104°F is about 19°F beyond a normal hot afternoon. Its record cold is just as far below a normal winter night — the dots mark how rare each extreme really is.
In plain terms
Methodology & sources
Temperature & precipitation — 1991–2020 normals computed from 27 years of daily observations at Mwalimu Julius K Nyerere Intl, a weather station, about 10 km from the city centre. The underlying daily records come from NOAA's global station network.