Best time to visit Pretoria

Pretoria is a city of two halves. June scores 98 and December scores 49 — a 49-point swing, which is the difference between a holiday and an endurance test. The month you pick matters more here than almost anywhere. The good window runs May to September — 5 months within ten points of the best.

October is the warmest month at 30.6 °C and June the coolest at 20.8 °C — a 9.8 °C spread across the year. Around 115 days a year top 30 °C, concentrated in October and the months either side.

There is a real wet season here. January, February, November and December carry the rain — up to 20 wet days in a month — while May to September drop as low as 1. That 19-day gap is the biggest single difference between a good month and a bad one in Pretoria, and it moves further than the temperature does.

Daylight runs from 10.5 hours in winter to 13.7 in summer, enough to notice on a sightseeing itinerary.

The three strongest months are June, July, August. The one to think twice about is December. Each month below has its own page with rainfall reliability, extremes, daylight and crowd levels.

Pretoria month by month