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Angola Climate
Like the rest of tropical Africa, Angola experiences
distinct,
alternating rainy and dry seasons. In the north, the rainy
season
may last for as long as seven months--usually from
September to
April, with perhaps a brief slackening in January or
February. In
the south, the rainy season begins later, in November, and
lasts
until about February. The dry season (cacimbo) is
often
characterized by a heavy morning mist. In general,
precipitation is
higher in the north, but at any latitude it is greater in
the
interior than along the coast and increases with altitude.
Temperatures fall with distance from the equator and
with
altitude and tend to rise closer to the Atlantic Ocean.
Thus at
Soyo, at the mouth of the Congo River, the average annual
temperature is about 26°C, but it is under 16°C at Huambo
on the
temperate central plateau. The coolest months are July and
August
(in the middle of the dry season), when frost may
sometimes form at
higher altitudes.
Data as of February 1989
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