Traveling and Hotels

For that Climate Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec High(°C) 35 35 34 30 30 28 27 27 28 30 34 35 Low(°C) 25 25 23 21 21 20 18 18 21 24 25 25 Note: Many popular resorts and tourist attractions on Zanzibar and Mafia Island Marine Park close during the long rains season, and many trails in the national parks are impassable during this period. the Mango Rains, and the long rains from March to May. Tanzania has two rainy seasons: The short rains from late-October to late-December, a.k.a.

There are no discernible seasons, such as winter and summer -- only the dry and wet seasons. Climate Tanzania's weather varies from humid and hot in low lying areas, such as Dar es Salaam, to hot during the day and cool at night in Arusha. A land of geographical extremes, Tanzania houses the highest peak (Mount Kilimanjaro), the lowest point (the lake bed of Lake Tanganyika), and a portion of the largest lake (Lake Victoria, shared with Uganda and Kenya) on the African continent. The mountain ranges of the Eastern Arc and the Southern and Northern Highlands cut across the country to form part of the Great Rift Valley.

Geography A large central plateau makes up most of the mainland, at between 900 m and 1800 m. Tanzania is the largest country in East Africa, bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north; Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south.