Weather in Dar es Salaam in July

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, July is the one. Highs average 27.7 °C, lows 23.1 °C, and rain falls on 3 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

July is the highest-scoring month of the twelve. The nearest rival is August, and the month at the other end of the year is December.

Rain falls on only 3 days, so an itinerary with no wet-weather fallback is a reasonable risk. Nothing specialised needed — this is the month you pack for the trip rather than for the weather.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: it never really gets hot: not one day in an average July reaches 30 °C; the day barely swings — 4.6 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest July day reached 29.2 °C and the coldest night fell to 20.2 °C.

July is moderately variable: 4 mm in the driest year against 31 mm in the wettest, around an average of 12 mm. Roughly two Julys in three land near that average, and the third does something else entirely.

Wind sits around 18.9 km/h — a steady breeze rather than a nuisance, and welcome on the warmer days, and humidity is unremarkable at 73%.

How July sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 28 °C in June, 27.7 here, 28.1 in August. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much.

Daylight in July

Dar es Salaam sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 11.8 hours in July, against a range of just 0.8 hours across the whole calendar. Sunrise and sunset land at roughly the same time whenever you come.

Sea temperature

The sea sits at about 26 °C in July — warm enough to stay in as long as you like. The sea peaks at 29.5 °C in March and bottoms out at 25.6 °C — water lags the air by a month or two, which is why the best swimming often comes after the best weather.

How busy it gets

Peak season. Expect the highest prices of the year and to be booking well ahead.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

July in Dar es Salaam versus nearby

If Dar es Salaam is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Zanzibar is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day more rain. Mombasa is the weaker option in July — 2 °C warmer, 5 days more rain.

So: July is the answer for Dar es Salaam. If it is booked out or priced out, August is the next best thing at 3 points behind, and December is the month to keep off the shortlist.

Every month in Dar es Salaam

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