Africa

Southern Africa

5 countries and territories in Southern Africa.

Photo: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

On the map

The countries of Southern Africa

Countries

The countries of Southern Africa

Countries of Southern Africa: capital, currency, plugs, driving side and calling code
Country	Capital	Currency	Plugs	Driving	Calling code
Botswana	Gaborone	BWP	D G	Left	+267
Eswatini	Mbabane	SZL	D	Left	+268
Lesotho	Maseru	LSL	D	Left	+266
Namibia	Windhoek	NAD	D	Left	+264
South Africa	Pretoria	ZAR	C D N	Left	+27

When to go

The capitals' weather, month by month

Each country's capital as GeoNames records it (or its largest city where the capital has no figures), mean daily high by month.

Mild to warm and dry
Mild to warm, humid or showery
Hot
Cool
Wet
Cold

Mean daily high in each capital by month, with what the month is like
Country	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
BotswanaGaborone	33°	32°	31°	28°	25°	22°	21°	26°	30°	33°	33°	33°
EswatiniMbabane	29°	29°	28°	26°	25°	22°	22°	25°	28°	29°	29°	30°
LesothoMaseru	28°	27°	25°	21°	17°	14°	14°	17°	22°	25°	26°	28°
NamibiaWindhoek	32°	30°	28°	26°	23°	21°	21°	24°	29°	31°	32°	32°
South AfricaPretoria	31°	31°	30°	27°	24°	21°	21°	25°	29°	31°	31°	31°

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).

Cities