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Matetsi Private Game Reserve in August

Hot and dry, as the days lengthen.

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years

August in Matetsi Private Game Reserve is hot: highs near 86°F, lows near 57°F. Rain is rare, and the days lengthen by 25 minutes from the first week to the last.August in Matetsi Private Game Reserve is hot: highs near 30°C, lows near 14°C. Rain is rare, and the days lengthen by 25 minutes from the first week to the last.

High
86°F30°Caverage
Low
57°F14°Caverage
Wet days
0a week · 0% of days
Daylight
11h 32mon average

Is August a good time to visit Matetsi Private Game Reserve?

A good month, just outside Matetsi Private Game Reserve's best months, which run from June to July.

How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 70°F to 80°F, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.How we judge it: every month is scored on how close its typical high comes to the range from 21°C to 27°C, how mild its nights are, and how rarely it rains. The best months are the run of months that scores best.

How August sits in the year

week by week

Temperature

Highs near 86°F in August, against 79°F to 97°F through the year.Highs near 30°C in August, against 26°C to 36°C through the year.

Chance of a wet day

0% of days in August, against 0% to 69% through the year.

Cloud cover

9% cover in August, against 8% to 73% through the year.

Daylight

11h 32m in August, against 11h 05m to 13h 11m through the year.

Week by week, lightly smoothed, with August shaded. The olive line marks the best months. Hover or tap a week for its figures.

Either side

  1. July79°26°low 53°low 12°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.
  2. August86°30°low 57°low 14°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.
  3. September94°34°low 65°low 18°no wet daysRain on fewer than one day a week.

Where Matetsi Private Game Reserve sits, in August

Africa/Harare
this place
typical high in August 40°F4°C95°F35°C
Sunrise, mid-August
6:38 AMsets 6:08 PM
Above the sea
910 mupland
Latitude
17.9°Ssouthern hemisphere
Nearest of ours
Victoria Falls35 km east

The land around Matetsi Private Game Reserve, shaded by its typical high in August, the planning map's own layer. Hover the map for the figure at that spot; tap it on a phone. Clock times are local, for the 15th.

Elsewhere in Zimbabwe in August

high · low · wet days
See August on the planning mapThe whole year in Matetsi Private Game Reserve

Typical weather, averaged over 30 years (1995–2024), from the 11 km grid square nearest Matetsi Private Game Reserve. Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 3.1°F cold in the source data and are raised to match, and both highs and lows are adjusted for the town's height (910 m) against the climate model's (1,006 m).Temperatures are adjusted against 66 weather stations: daytime highs read about 1.7°C cold in the source data and are raised to match, and both highs and lows are adjusted for the town's height (910 m) against the climate model's (1,006 m). Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not. Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.

Daylight is calculated from latitude. Charts are lightly smoothed week to week; the figures in the table are not.

Source: Copernicus ERA5-Land reanalysis; cloud cover from NASA's MERRA-2 reanalysis, on a coarser grid of about 50 km. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026; neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use of it. These are averages, not a forecast.