According to Lifeguin’s travel calendar, the best time to visit Lesotho is April to May and September to October. Plan 3–5 days.
Best months for Lesotho
- Best months
- April to May and September to October
- How long to stay
- 3–5 days
- Continent
- Africa
What Lesotho is best for
Dramatic mountain passes, pony trekking, rugged highlands, and waterfalls like Maletsunyane for off-the-beaten-track travel.
- Prices
- € · cheaper than in Slovakia
Weather in Lesotho by month
Monthly averages around Maseru; the mountains and other regions can differ a lot.
| Month | Average temperature | Rain |
|---|---|---|
| January | about 21 °C | some rain (99 mm) |
| February | about 20 °C | some rain (96 mm) |
| March | about 18 °C | some rain (72 mm) |
| April best | about 14 °C | some rain (63 mm) |
| May best | about 10 °C | little rain (21 mm) |
| June | about 7 °C | little rain (21 mm) |
| July | about 7 °C | little rain (6 mm) |
| August | about 9 °C | little rain (21 mm) |
| September best | about 14 °C | little rain (18 mm) |
| October best | about 17 °C | some rain (60 mm) |
| November | about 18 °C | some rain (84 mm) |
| December | about 20 °C | some rain (99 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 Lesotho
- Capital
- Maseru
- Languages
- Southern Sotho and English
- Currencies
- South African Rand (ZAR) and Lesotho Loti (LSL)
- Time
- UTC+2
- Plugs
- Type D · 220 V
- Driving
- On the left
- Calling code
- +266
Sources: Wikidata, Unicode CLDR and the IANA time zone database.
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