🇦🇴 Angola · capital
Luanda
Luanda is the capital and largest city of Angola. It is Angola's primary port, and its major industrial, cultural and urban centre. Located on Angola's northern Atlantic coast, Luanda is Angola's administrative centre, its chief seaport, and also the capital of the Luanda Province. Luanda and its metropolitan area is the most populous Portuguese-speaking national capital in the world and the most populous Lusophone city outside Brazil. In 2024 the population reached more than 8.8 million inhabitants.
- Country
- 🇦🇴 Angola
- Elevation
- 77 m
- Population
- 2,776,168
- Time zone
- Africa/Luanda
- Coordinates
- -8.84, 13.23
Weather in Luanda month by month
The best months to go: Jul · Aug · Sep
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| high | 30° | 30° | 31° | 30° | 30° | 27° | 25° | 25° | 26° | 28° | 29° | 29° |
| low | 24° | 24° | 25° | 24° | 23° | 20° | 19° | 19° | 21° | 23° | 24° | 24° |
| rain | 56 mm | 53 mm | 82 mm | 120 mm | 14 mm | 1 mm | 1 mm | 2 mm | 6 mm | 20 mm | 130 mm | 91 mm |
2019–2023 average (ERA5, Open-Meteo). Monthly rainfall total.
How far Luanda is from other cities in Angola
- Maianga1 km✈ 45 min · 🚗 1 min
- Mulenvos11 km✈ 46 min · 🚗 11 min
- Kikolo13 km✈ 46 min · 🚗 13 min
- Viana17 km✈ 46 min · 🚗 17 min
Photo from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) · Data from GeoNames, Open-Meteo.