Website in: English | Español | Français | Italiano | Português

Translation Services » Maps Home » B

Choose the first letter to select required country:

Botswana - Maps of the World

The annual climate ranges from months of dry temperate weather during winter to days or weeks of sub-tropical humidity interspersed with drier hot weather during summer. In summer (which lasts from October to March) temperatures rise to above 34 C (93 F) in the extreme north and south-west. In winter (which lasts from April to September), there is frequent frost at night and temperatures may fall below 2 C (37 F) during the day, but skies are usually cloudless and sunny. Summer is heralded by a windy season, carrying dust from the Kalahari, from about late August to early October.

Annual rainfall, brought by winds from the Indian Ocean, averages 460 mm (18 in), including a range from 640 mm (25 in) in the extreme north-east to less than 130 mm (5 in) in the extreme south-west. The rains are almost entirely limited to summer downpours between December and April, which also mark the season for plowing and planting. Cyclical droughts, lasting up to five or six years in every two decades, can limit or eliminate harvests and reduce livestock to starvation.