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Zambia

6 cities in the atlas · 4 airports with scheduled flights

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Capital: Lusaka
Currency: ZMW; Zambian Kwacha
Local time: Central Africa TimeUTC+02:00
Calling code: +260
Driving: On the left
Plugs: Type C and G

Facts

Zambia in figures

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

Capital: Lusaka
Currency: Zambian Kwacha ZMWToday's indicative rate: ZMW 10 ≈ USD 0.499Indicative, from the day's reference rates; a bank or card will charge its own.
Languages: Official: EnglishSpoken: English, Bemba, Lozi, Lunda and Nyanja
Time zones: Central Africa TimeUTC+02:00
Calling code: +260
Driving: On the left
Plugs: Type C and G230 V · 50 HzAs recorded in Wikidata.
Emergency numbers: 112fire and police911police991general emergency992ambulance993fire999general emergencyAs recorded in Wikidata. Check them locally on arrival; they are not the only safety information you need.
Population: 21,913,874 (2025, World Bank)
Area: 752,614 km²
Internet domain: .zm
Land borders: Angola Democratic Republic of the Congo Malawi Mozambique Namibia Tanzania Zimbabwe

When to go

Climate across Zambia

In March to August and November, more than half of the 5 cities with figures in Zambia 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
Lusaka	27°	27°	27°	28°	27°	26°	25°	29°	32°	34°	32°	28°
Ndola	25°	25°	26°	26°	26°	25°	25°	29°	32°	34°	31°	26°
Kitwe	26°	26°	26°	26°	26°	25°	26°	29°	33°	35°	31°	27°
Chipata	27°	27°	27°	27°	27°	26°	26°	29°	32°	34°	34°	29°
Solwezi	25°	25°	25°	25°	24°	24°	25°	28°	32°	32°	28°	25°
Cities good for going, of 5	0	1	4	5	5	5	5	5	0	0	3	0

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 Zambia 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 Zambia

All 6 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.

Smaller places with an airport · 1

Livingstone

Airports

Airports in Zambia

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

Large airports

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 Zambia

Tell us where in Zambia, 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.