Weather in Dar es Salaam in June

Prime time. If you get to pick your dates, June is the one. Highs average 28 °C, lows 23.7 °C, and rain falls on 5 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

June ranks 3 of 12 in Dar es Salaam. Only July scores clearly higher, and the difference is small enough to be settled by price rather than weather.

Rain falls on only 5 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 June reaches 30 °C; the day barely swings — 4.2 °C between the overnight low and the afternoon high. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest June day reached 29.8 °C and the coldest night fell to 20.5 °C.

This is the volatile part. June rainfall has ranged from 3 mm to 117 mm across the twenty years measured — a 114 mm spread around an average of 24 mm. The average is real but almost no individual June looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.

Wind sits around 18.2 km/h — a steady breeze rather than a nuisance, and welcome on the warmer days, and humidity runs at 76%, high enough to notice on the warm days without dominating them.

How June sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 28.6 °C in May, 28 here, 27.7 in July. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much. Rain has already shifted: 12 days fewer than May had.

Daylight in June

Dar es Salaam sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 11.7 hours in June, 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 27.1 °C in June — warm enough that the water offers no relief from the heat. 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.

June 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, 2 days more rain. Mombasa is the weaker option in June — within a degree on temperature, 8 days more rain.

So: June is effectively as good as it gets here — 4 points behind July, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

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