What Is The Climate Of East Africa?

The climate of East Africa is generally characterised by warm temperatures. The conditions are desert like with hardly any rainfall and dry spells that seem to last forever. Only in some inland high altitude locations do winter temperatures fall enough to resemble European summers. The coast however is generally cooler or at least slightly more pleasant due to sea breezes.

On the whole there is a consistency of temperatures with certain countries enjoying some rainfall during April in May and intermittently between July and November.

The countries of Africa include Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Comoros, Mauritius, Seychelles, Mozambique, Madagascar, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Zambia. The last five are sometimes included as part of South Africa and the First two as North Africa.

Another worrying development for East Africa is that the cutting down of a large number of forests and climate change due to global warming is making the weather more severe.