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Tanzania, month by month

Where in Tanzania is at its best each month, and where to skip. Each verdict comes from the place's stated best season and the closures, weather warnings and festivals Tourisma has for it: in the middle of the season is a great month, its first or last month a good one; a weather warning (monsoon seas, smoke) moves a month down, a closure (a park shut, the boats stopped) moves it down to mixed at most, and a shut place is better avoided.

Tanzania in January

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Dar es Salaam, Northern Serengeti, Nyerere National Park, Ruaha National Park, Tarangire.

Can fall this month

Christmas and New Year peak

Tanzania in February

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Dar es Salaam, Northern Serengeti, Nyerere National Park, Ruaha National Park, Tarangire.

Can fall this month

Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr (dates shift yearly)
Sauti za Busara music festival
Kilimanjaro Marathon

Tanzania in March

At their best

No place is in the middle of its season this month.

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Arusha, Dar es Salaam, Lake Manyara, Northern Serengeti, Nyerere National Park, Paje & Jambiani, Ruaha National Park, Stone Town, Tarangire.

Can fall this month

Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr (dates shift yearly)
Kilimanjaro Marathon

Tanzania in April

At their best

No place is in the middle of its season this month.

Mixed: Arusha, Dar es Salaam, Moshi, Paje & Jambiani.

Better avoided

Lake Manyara · Long Rains: Muddy Tracks, Some Camps Closed
Mafia Island · closed
Mount Kilimanjaro · Kilimanjaro's Wettest Months
Ngorongoro Crater · Long Rains: Muddy Tracks, Some Camps Closed
Northern Serengeti · closed
Nungwi & Kendwa · Zanzibar Long Rains
Nyerere National Park · closed
Ruaha National Park · closed
Serengeti · Long Rains: Muddy Tracks, Some Camps Closed
Stone Town · Zanzibar Long Rains
Tarangire · Long Rains: Muddy Tracks, Some Camps Closed

Tanzania in May

At their best

No place is in the middle of its season this month.

Mixed: Arusha, Dar es Salaam, Moshi, Paje & Jambiani.

Better avoided

Lake Manyara · Long Rains: Muddy Tracks, Some Camps Closed
Mafia Island · closed
Mount Kilimanjaro · Kilimanjaro's Wettest Months
Ngorongoro Crater · Long Rains: Muddy Tracks, Some Camps Closed
Northern Serengeti · closed
Nungwi & Kendwa · Zanzibar Long Rains
Nyerere National Park · closed
Ruaha National Park · closed
Serengeti · Long Rains: Muddy Tracks, Some Camps Closed
Stone Town · Zanzibar Long Rains
Tarangire · Long Rains: Muddy Tracks, Some Camps Closed

Tanzania in June

At their best

No place is in the middle of its season this month.

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Mafia Island, Northern Serengeti.

Can fall this month

Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF)
Dar es Salaam International Trade Fair (Saba Saba)

Tanzania in July

At their best

Good, at the edge of the season

Northern Serengeti

Mixed: Mafia Island.

Can fall this month

Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF)
Mwaka Kogwa (Shirazi New Year), Makunduchi
Dar es Salaam International Trade Fair (Saba Saba)

Tanzania in August

At their best

Mixed: Mafia Island.

Tanzania in September

At their best

Mixed: Mafia Island.

Tanzania in October

At their best

No place is in the middle of its season this month.

Good, at the edge of the season

Tanzania in November

At their best

Mafia Island

Mixed: Arusha, Dar es Salaam, Lake Manyara, Moshi, Mount Kilimanjaro, Ngorongoro Crater, Northern Serengeti, Nungwi & Kendwa, Nyerere National Park, Paje & Jambiani, Ruaha National Park, Serengeti, Stone Town, Tarangire.

Tanzania in December

At their best

Mafia Island

Good, at the edge of the season

Mixed: Dar es Salaam, Moshi, Mount Kilimanjaro, Northern Serengeti, Nyerere National Park, Ruaha National Park, Serengeti, Tarangire.

Can fall this month

Christmas and New Year peak

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