According to Lifeguin’s travel calendar, the best time to visit Cape Verde is November to June. Plan 5 days.
Best months for Cape Verde
- JanuaryBest
- FebruaryBest
- MarchBest
- AprilBest
- MayBest
- JuneBest
- July
- August
- September
- October
- NovemberBest
- DecemberBest
- Best months
- November to June
- How long to stay
- 5 days
- Continent
- Africa
What Cape Verde is best for
White-sand beaches in Sal and Boa Vista, dramatic mountain hikes in Santo Antão, and Mindelo's music scene.
- Prices
- €€ · about the same as in Slovakia
Weather in Cape Verde by month
Monthly averages around Praia; the mountains and other regions can differ a lot.
| Month | Average temperature | Rain |
|---|---|---|
| January best | about 23 °C | little rain (21 mm) |
| February best | about 22 °C | little rain (21 mm) |
| March best | about 22 °C | little rain (9 mm) |
| April best | about 23 °C | little rain (6 mm) |
| May best | about 23 °C | little rain (3 mm) |
| June best | about 24 °C | little rain (3 mm) |
| July | about 25 °C | little rain (12 mm) |
| August | about 27 °C | some rain (54 mm) |
| September | about 27 °C | some rain (81 mm) |
| October | about 27 °C | some rain (45 mm) |
| November best | about 26 °C | some rain (36 mm) |
| December best | about 24 °C | some rain (30 mm) |
Sources: what a place is best for — our own travel guides and, for places we have not written about yet, research done with the help of AI (Google Gemini); weather — NASA POWER climate averages; prices — World Bank price levels (CC BY 4.0).
Good to know about Cape Verde
- Capital
- Praia
- Language
- Portuguese
- Currency
- Cape Verdean Escudo (CVE)
- Time
- UTC−1
- Plugs
- Type C, F · 220 V
- Driving
- On the right
- Calling code
- +238
Sources: Wikidata, Unicode CLDR and the IANA time zone database.
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