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Angola

23 cities in the atlas · 14 airports with scheduled flights

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Capital: Luanda
Currency: AOA; Angolan Kwanza
Local time: West Africa TimeUTC+01:00
Calling code: +244
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type C

Facts

Angola in figures

From named datasets: GeoNames, CLDR, the World Bank and Wikidata. Each is credited at the foot of the page.

Capital: Luanda
Currency: Angolan Kwanza AOAToday's indicative rate: AOA 100 ≈ USD 0.108Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
Languages: Official: PortugueseSpoken: Portuguese
Time zones: West Africa TimeUTC+01:00
Calling code: +244
Driving: On the right
Plugs: Type C220 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
Emergency numbers: 113police115fire116ambulanceAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
Population: 39,040,039 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 1,246,700 km²
Internet domain: .ao
Land borders: Democratic Republic of the Congo Namibia Republic of the Congo Zambia

When to go

Climate across Angola

In January to December, more than half of the 15 cities with figures in Angola have a mean high between 18°C and 32°C and under 150 mm of rain.

Mild to warm and dry
Mild to warm, humid or showery
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The main cities, month by month
City	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
Luanda	29°	30°	30°	29°	29°	27°	25°	25°	26°	28°	29°	29°
Huambo	24°	25°	25°	25°	25°	24°	25°	28°	30°	29°	25°	24°
Cabinda	30°	30°	30°	30°	29°	29°	29°	29°	31°	31°	30°	29°
Benguela	27°	28°	28°	29°	28°	25°	23°	22°	23°	25°	27°	27°
Lubango	27°	27°	26°	27°	27°	26°	26°	29°	32°	32°	30°	28°
Lobito	29°	30°	29°	31°	31°	29°	28°	28°	29°	30°	29°	29°
Malanje	27°	28°	28°	28°	31°	31°	31°	32°	33°	30°	27°	27°
Cuíto	25°	25°	25°	25°	26°	25°	25°	28°	31°	30°	26°	25°
Uíge	27°	28°	28°	28°	29°	30°	31°	31°	31°	29°	27°	27°
Saurimo	27°	27°	27°	28°	30°	30°	31°	33°	34°	31°	28°	27°
Cities good for going, of 15	13	13	9	14	15	15	15	13	12	14	8	11

Mean daily highs, modelled for an area about 50 km across: NASA POWER climatology, 2001–2020. A cell's swatch says what the month is like (key above).

On the map

Where Angola is

The dashed box is the extent of the country's main landmass, from Natural Earth; outlying islands fall outside it. The dots are the cities with pages of their own.

Land borders

Cities

Cities in Angola

All 23 places in the atlas: capitals, cities of 300,000 people or more, the places its airports serve, and the ones we have written guides to.

Airports

Airports in Angola

Airports with scheduled flights and an IATA code, from OurAirports.

Large airports

Medium airports · 12

Visas and entry

Entry rules depend on your passport and change often, so this page does not state them. Check the destination government's official immigration website, or ask our visa desk to check your case for you.

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Plan it

Plan a trip to Angola

Tell us where in Angola, when and who is travelling, and a person puts the flights, the stays and the rest into one quote.

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Sources for this page

All sources and licences

GeoNames — Place data © GeoNames (geonames.org), CC BY 4.0.
OurAirports — Airport data from OurAirports (ourairports.com), public domain.
NASA POWER (Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources), Climatology API v2 — These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program.
Wikidata — Facts from Wikidata (wikidata.org), CC0.
Wikimedia Commons — Each photograph's author and licence are printed beside it.
Unicode CLDR 48.2.2 (cldr-json) — Unicode CLDR data, © Unicode, Inc., Unicode License v3.
Natural Earth v5.1.2, 1:10m admin-0 map units — Made with Natural Earth. Licence: Public domain
World Bank, World Development Indicators: Population, total (SP.POP.TOTL) — Population: World Bank, World Development Indicators (SP.POP.TOTL), CC BY 4.0.