Nungwi, Tanzania

There are 127 tropical destinations in our catalog, and Nungwi's numbers hold their own: a 95/100 sun score at its February peak, when rain interrupts roughly 36% of days. For a coastal escape under a tropical sky, the data is a good starting point.

March is the heat peak, averaging 30°C highs; July is the cool end, when nights dip to around 23°C. The wet–dry contrast is pronounced: 91% rain-day odds in April against 36% in January. The genuinely warm window — average highs of 24°C or better — covers January–December.

The seasonal arc is clear in the data: summer averages 27°C against winter's 29°C, while rain-day odds move from 47% in winter and 74% in spring to 49% in summer and 60% through autumn. That makes summer the statistical sweet spot (season score 93), with autumn a workable second; spring is where the odds thin out. If your dates are flexible, December buys you 29°C warmth at the quiet end of the season.

Best months to visit Nungwi

The best month on record is February — a 95/100 sun score, built on 60% cloud cover and 36% rain-day odds — followed by September and July. In practice you have flexibility — January–December all stay above a 70 sun score. Skip April if sunshine is the point — it bottoms out at 70/100.

Put against its 126 tropical peers in February, it lands in the sunnier half of the group, ahead of 86% of them.

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The live forecast backs this up: of the next 15 days, 7 look mostly clear and none carry meaningful rain risk, in a 25–31°C band. Today's cached sun score is 95/100.