Mogadishu weather by month
The best time to visit Mogadishu is January, February and August — 77/100 in January, 30°C and 0 rainy days. The best season is the dry season, December to March (75/100 on average).
The worst month is May at 68/100 — sweltering, a little rain, clean air. See May →
Updated September 2026 · climate normals from ERA5 reanalysis
Best season: December to March (75/100 on average) · worst May (68/100)
- Days
- 30°C
- Nights
- 24°C
- Wet days
- 0
- Sun
- 11.2 h
- Humidity
- 72%
- Daylight
- 12 h
Mogadishu, month by month
Comfort score out of 100 for the kind of trip Mogadishu is best for, the average high, rainy days and hours of sun a day from the climate normals, and how busy it tends to be.
What's on in Mogadishu through the year
Festivals, natural spectacles, holidays and the seasons to watch out for — curated and sourced. The month pages carry the detail.
Crowds in Mogadishu in January
How busy the place itself is — school and mass holidays, the months an editor tagged, and how sought-after the weather makes them. Never part of the comfort score.
Busyschool holidays in 5 of the markets that fill it, one of its best months for weather(estimated)
Peak crowdsBusyShoulder seasonQuiet
Traveller notes on Mogadishu
What people who have been say about the place — the year-round notes first, then month by month.
Trip reports for Mogadishu are essentially nonexistent on the forum, and the destination currently carries a formal advisory against non-essential travel - consistent with how thin, advisory-affected destinations are documented on this site: honestly, and grounded in regional climate knowledge rather than fabricated specifics. Mogadishu sits on Somalia's Indian Ocean coast in a hot, semi-arid tropical zone, and February falls within the region's drier northeast-monsoon season, with the well-established regional pattern pointing to consistently hot days, warm humid nights, and comparatively little rainfall this time of year compared to the wetter spring and autumn monsoon transitions.
Forum coverage of Mogadishu is extremely limited, dominated by safety discussions and an active travel advisory recommending against non-essential travel, rather than granular weather detail. What little discussion exists centers on specialized tour operators (offering visa processing, airport pickup and guided visits) rather than independent trip reports. Mogadishu's coastal position on the Indian Ocean means August should bring the kind of warm, breezy conditions typical of the Somali coast at this time of year, broadly similar to the pattern posters describe for nearby Mombasa on the Kenyan coast, though the complete absence of detailed firsthand accounts makes this a regional inference rather than a confirmed local report.
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