Addo Elephant National Park

South Africa

Drive through dense thickets to spot massive herds of elephants gathering around the waterholes of the Eastern Cape.

Warmest month is January at 30°C on average. Coolest is July at 22°C. Driest reading falls in May with 3 rain days.

Six lead datapoints

MonthAvg highSwingRain days
January30°±6°4
February30°±6°7
March29°±7°5
April26°±7°5
May25°±6°3
June23°±5°3
July22°±6°4
August22°±6°3
September23°±6°5
October25°±7°4
November26°±6°4
December28°±6°4

What to do

  • Self-drive the park's loop roads to find roaming elephants
  • Join a guided night drive to spot nocturnal predators
  • Look for the flightless dung beetles endemic to the area

How we know this

Values are the average of the last ten calendar years of daily readings from Visual Crossing, snapped to the destination cluster. Swing is the p10 to p90 range of daily highs, halved for the ± figure. Rain days count any day with at least 1 mm of precipitation.