According to Lifeguin’s travel calendar, the best time to visit Tanzania is October to February. Plan 7–10 days.
Best months for Tanzania
- Best months
- October to February
- How long to stay
- 7–10 days
- Continent
- Africa
What Tanzania is best for
Famous for Serengeti safaris, Ngorongoro Crater wildlife, Mount Kilimanjaro treks, and tropical Zanzibar beaches.
- Prices
- € · cheaper than in Slovakia
Weather in Tanzania by month
Monthly averages around Arusha; the mountains and other regions can differ a lot.
| Month | Average temperature | Rain |
|---|---|---|
| January best | about 24 °C | some rain (84 mm) |
| February best | about 24 °C | some rain (78 mm) |
| March | about 23 °C | a lot of rain (102 mm) |
| April | about 22 °C | a lot of rain (147 mm) |
| May | about 20 °C | some rain (87 mm) |
| June | about 19 °C | little rain (18 mm) |
| July | about 19 °C | little rain (9 mm) |
| August | about 20 °C | little rain (12 mm) |
| September | about 22 °C | little rain (18 mm) |
| October best | about 23 °C | some rain (63 mm) |
| November best | about 23 °C | a lot of rain (132 mm) |
| December best | about 23 °C | a lot of rain (105 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 Tanzania
- Capital
- Dodoma
- Languages
- Swahili and English
- Currency
- Tanzanian Shilling (TZS)
- Time
- UTC+3
- Plugs
- Type G · 230 V
- Driving
- On the left
- Calling code
- +255
Sources: Wikidata, Unicode CLDR and the IANA time zone database.
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