According to Lifeguin’s travel calendar, the best time to visit Namibia is April to May and October to November. Plan 10–14 days.
Best months for Namibia
- Best months
- April to May and October to November
- How long to stay
- 10–14 days
- Continent
- Africa
What Namibia is best for
Famous for self-drive road trips across Sossusvlei dunes, Etosha wildlife safaris, and vast desert landscapes.
- Prices
- € · cheaper than in Slovakia
Weather in Namibia by month
Monthly averages around Windhoek; the mountains and other regions can differ a lot.
| Month | Average temperature | Rain |
|---|---|---|
| January | about 24 °C | some rain (87 mm) |
| February | about 23 °C | some rain (96 mm) |
| March | about 22 °C | some rain (81 mm) |
| April best | about 19 °C | some rain (57 mm) |
| May best | about 16 °C | little rain (6 mm) |
| June | about 12 °C | little rain (3 mm) |
| July | about 12 °C | little rain (0 mm) |
| August | about 15 °C | little rain (0 mm) |
| September | about 20 °C | little rain (3 mm) |
| October best | about 22 °C | little rain (21 mm) |
| November best | about 23 °C | some rain (33 mm) |
| December | about 24 °C | some rain (51 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 Namibia
- Capital
- Windhoek
- Language
- English
- Currencies
- South African Rand (ZAR) and Namibian Dollar (NAD)
- Time
- UTC+2
- Plugs
- Type D · 220 V
- Driving
- On the left
- Calling code
- +264
Sources: Wikidata, Unicode CLDR and the IANA time zone database.
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