🇧🇼 Botswana · capital
Gaborone
Gaborone is the capital and largest city of Botswana. It was formerly spelled as Gaberones during the colonial era, a name occasionally used in older English texts and maps. With a population of 246,325 based on the 2022 census, about 10% of the total population of Botswana. Its metropolitan area is home to 534,842 inhabitants at the 2022 census.
- Country
- 🇧🇼 Botswana
- Elevation
- 1,007 m
- Population
- 246,325
- Time zone
- Africa/Gaborone
- Coordinates
- -24.66, 25.91
Weather in Gaborone month by month
The best months to go: May · Jun · Aug
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| high | 30° | 29° | 28° | 26° | 24° | 21° | 21° | 25° | 30° | 32° | 32° | 31° |
| low | 19° | 19° | 17° | 14° | 10° | 7° | 7° | 9° | 14° | 17° | 19° | 19° |
| rain | 100 mm | 72 mm | 19 mm | 43 mm | 9 mm | 2 mm | 3 mm | 1 mm | 1 mm | 13 mm | 37 mm | 109 mm |
2019–2023 average (ERA5, Open-Meteo). Monthly rainfall total.
How far Gaborone is from other cities in Botswana
- Mogoditshane5 km✈ 45 min · 🚗 5 min
- Molepolole50 km✈ 49 min · 🚗 50 min
- Francistown421 km✈ 1 h 16 min · 🚗 7 h 1 min
- Maun579 km✈ 1 h 27 min · 🚗 9 h 39 min
Photo from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) · Data from GeoNames, Open-Meteo.