July is summer time in Cape Verde. The average daily temperature is around 28 degrees Celsius. This means that you can enjoy fine weather in July on the Cape Verde islands. It is consistently warm and there is (almost) no rain. Cape Verde is even one of the 20 driest countries in the world. Cape Verde consists of nine inhabited islands, namely Sal, Boa Vista, São Nicolau, São Vicente, Santo Antão, Santiago, Maio, Fogo and Brava. The ever-present and cooling trade winds on the archipelago ensure that it can be pleasant in Cape Verde despite the high temperature.

What kind of weather can you expect in Cape Verde in July? Below you will find the averages of the most important meteorological variables. These are the average daytime maximum, the sea temperature and the days of rain, as the climate table gives them. The weather data for the month of July is based on historical weather data and does not provide an actual weather forecast for Cape Verde.

In short

  • Temperatures 28.1°C
  • Warm and dry, slightly more humidity
  • Calm winds
  • Sea temperature 24.5°C
  • Rain remains very unlikely

Temperature in July

The average daytime maximum in July is 28.1 degrees Celsius. Summer is well under way, and the nights stay balmy.

Maximum temperature in July - Cape Verde

Maximum temperature — day by day within the month

Rain in July

July still stands at 0 days of rain in the climate table, although it leads into the wettest part of the year.

Rain in July - Cape Verde

Rainfall — day by day within the month

Wind in July

In July the harmattan dominates over the north-east trade wind. It brings dry air from the Sahara and sometimes sand and dust; such dust winds are usually short-lived. The climate table carries no wind values.

The weather in Cape Verde in other months

Data accounting

Every figure on this page comes from the climate table on Cape Verde climate and weather: measuring station Sal, Amílcar Cabral airport (Espargos), reference period the 1991–2020 climate normal. A day of rain is a day with at least 1 millimetre of rainfall. Those values hold for Sal and for the flat eastern islands. The other islands have no measuring series of their own, so we give no figures island by island. On the mountainous islands such as Santo Antão and Fogo it is cooler and wetter at altitude.

The graph above shows something different from the table: how the month runs day by day, taken from the historical daily reports of weather station 85940 over 2012 to 2018. That series is not a climate normal and is not the source of any figure in the text; it is there to show whether a month runs flat or erratic.