Best time to visit Uganda
Equatorial Uganda has a blissfully springlike climate – a 25°C average with cooling night time breezes.![]()
June, July, August and September are the best time to visit Uganda. These peak months are generally dry (although rain can fall at any time). Book well in advance if tracking gorillas, as permits sell out months in advance. Really, though, this is a year-round destination. Uganda sits squarely on the equator so there are no true seasons, plus an average altitude of around 1,000m tempers the heat. March-May and October-November see the highest rainfall, but gorillas are still lurking in the mist – although trekking to find them will be slippery and slower. Accommodation and gorilla permits can be much cheaper at this time.
Uganda month by month
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See the incredible primates of the African jungle
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Uganda Weather Chart
MIN °C
MAX °C
RAIN (mm)
JAN
16
29
67
FEB
16
29
75
MAR
17
28
141
APR
17
28
194
MAY
17
27
172
JUN
16
27
83
JUL
15
26
64
AUG
16
27
86
SEP
16
27
94
OCT
16
28
129
NOV
16
28
163
DEC
16
28
101
Our top Uganda Holiday
Uganda highlights tour
Queen Elizabeth, Bwindi & Murchison Falls National Parks
From
£5195
12 days
ex flights
Tailor made:
This trip can be tailor made throughout the year to suit your requirements
This trip can be tailor made throughout the year to suit your requirements
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Jackson Araali, from our leading Uganda holidays supplier Primate World Safaris:
“The best time to travel in the year would be between the months of January and February then June to September. The weather is perfect, dry Season with little or no rainfall. Wildlife viewing is better when game is more concentrated around water sources and tracking gorillas and chimpanzees is much easier when the ground is dry.”
“The best time to travel in the year would be between the months of January and February then June to September. The weather is perfect, dry Season with little or no rainfall. Wildlife viewing is better when game is more concentrated around water sources and tracking gorillas and chimpanzees is much easier when the ground is dry.”
Paul Callcutt, from our supplier Natural World Safaris:
“March, April, May is a heavier rainy season, but having said that, I was there in May this year in the Kyambura Gorge doing chimpanzee trekking, and there was no one there except me and some guides because most tourists don’t come until the end of May when, traditionally, the rain stops. People do work in ‘calendars’ but of course weather doesn’t work like that. I think there is a lot to be said of going in the last few days of what is supposedly the wet season, because when I was there it was perfectly dry and there was nobody there.”
“March, April, May is a heavier rainy season, but having said that, I was there in May this year in the Kyambura Gorge doing chimpanzee trekking, and there was no one there except me and some guides because most tourists don’t come until the end of May when, traditionally, the rain stops. People do work in ‘calendars’ but of course weather doesn’t work like that. I think there is a lot to be said of going in the last few days of what is supposedly the wet season, because when I was there it was perfectly dry and there was nobody there.”
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