Queen Elizabeth National Park weather

What it is doing right now, what the next two weeks look like, and what each month of the year means for the game viewing.

Right now in the park

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The next two weeks

Straight from the forecast, updated when you open this page. Useful if you are packing. Not useful for choosing a month, which is what the year below is for.

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The year at a glance

Bars are rainfall, the line is the daytime high. Thirty-year averages. The green band marks the months this park is at its driest, which is when most people want to be here.

Rainfall in millimetres along the bottom. Highest month 339 mm, daytime highs from 18.4 to 29.4 degrees.

Every month, and what it means for the wildlife

The temperature tells you what to pack. The rainfall column decides what you will see.

Month	Day	Night	Rain	Wet days	What that means here
January prime	28.3°C	19.0°C	32 mm	2	The drier half of UWA's own dry list, at 32 and 36 mm over two and three rain days. These are also the hottest afternoons of the year, peaking at 29.4 degrees in February, and February is the month the Palearctic migrants are still in the country before they leave in April.
February prime	29.4°C	19.7°C	36 mm	3	The drier half of UWA's own dry list, at 32 and 36 mm over two and three rain days. These are also the hottest afternoons of the year, peaking at 29.4 degrees in February, and February is the month the Palearctic migrants are still in the country before they leave in April.
March	28.1°C	19.9°C	213 mm	12	The switch, and an abrupt one. Rainfall goes from 36 mm in February to 213 mm over 12 days. This is also the first of the four months in which Aerolink drops to a single flight each way per day, so the logistics tighten at the same moment the tracks soften.
April	26.8°C	19.4°C	339 mm	18	The wettest month of the year at 339 mm over 18 rain days, and the coolest afternoons of the first half at 26.8 degrees. The murram to Ishasha is at its worst, several lodges switch to their lowest published rates, and the park is quiet.
May	27.2°C	19.5°C	175 mm	11	Still wet at 175 mm over 11 days, but easing from April. The reduced flight schedule and the low-season rates both run through the month. The last of the northern migrants leave around now.
June prime	27.3°C	19.1°C	18 mm	1	The one genuinely dry window in this park's year: 18 mm in June and 24 mm in July, one rain day each. The full Aerolink schedule returns in June. July brings the coolest nights on the record at 18.4 degrees, which catches out visitors who assume an equatorial park cannot be chilly before dawn.
July prime	26.9°C	18.4°C	24 mm	1	The one genuinely dry window in this park's year: 18 mm in June and 24 mm in July, one rain day each. The full Aerolink schedule returns in June. July brings the coolest nights on the record at 18.4 degrees, which catches out visitors who assume an equatorial park cannot be chilly before dawn.
August	27.6°C	19.0°C	53 mm	5	The turn. Rain roughly doubles to 53 mm over five days, which is still low by this park's standards, while European holiday traffic arrives and the camps that publish a high season are all in it. Good value is harder to find than the weather would suggest.
September	28.3°C	19.7°C	103 mm	8	Rain doubles again to 103 mm over eight days and the year starts rebuilding towards its second peak. The Palearctic waders, gulls and terns begin arriving this month, which opens the best birding stretch of the year.
October	27.3°C	19.5°C	241 mm	13	The second peak, at 241 mm over 13 days and 188 mm over eight. November has the coolest afternoons of the year at 26.6 degrees. November is also the fourth of the reduced-flight months, while October keeps the full schedule despite being the wetter of the two.
November	26.6°C	19.2°C	188 mm	8	The second peak, at 241 mm over 13 days and 188 mm over eight. November has the coolest afternoons of the year at 26.6 degrees. November is also the fourth of the reduced-flight months, while October keeps the full schedule despite being the wetter of the two.
December	26.9°C	19.2°C	70 mm	4	Drying through the month to 70 mm over four days, and improving week by week. UWA counts it as a dry month. It is also the most expensive fortnight of the year at Christmas and New Year, and the camps that publish a high season all include December in it.

Climate figures are Open-Meteo climate normals, 1991 to 2020, taken at -0.25, 29.98. The wildlife column is ours, from the sources on the best time to visit page. Averages hide bad years: a dry January still happens, and so does a wet July.