🇨🇻 Cabo Verde · capital
Praia
Praia is the capital and largest city of Cape Verde. Located on the southern coast of Santiago island within the Sotavento Islands group, the city is the seat of the Praia Municipality. Praia is the political, economic and cultural center of Cape Verde.
- Country
- 🇨🇻 Cabo Verde
- Elevation
- 23 m
- Population
- 137,868
- Time zone
- Atlantic/Cape_Verde
- Coordinates
- 14.93, -23.51
Weather in Praia month by month
The best months to go: Jan · Feb · Mar
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| high | 26° | 25° | 25° | 27° | 27° | 28° | 29° | 29° | 29° | 30° | 29° | 27° |
| low | 21° | 20° | 20° | 20° | 21° | 22° | 23° | 24° | 24° | 24° | 23° | 21° |
| rain | 4 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 0 mm | 3 mm | 10 mm | 100 mm | 87 mm | 16 mm | 0 mm | 5 mm |
2019–2023 average (ERA5, Open-Meteo). Monthly rainfall total.
How far Praia is from other cities in Cabo Verde
- Assomada26 km✈ 47 min · 🚗 26 min
- Espargos212 km✈ 1 h · 🚗 3 h 32 min
- Mindelo268 km✈ 1 h 5 min · 🚗 4 h 28 min
Photo from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) · Data from GeoNames, Open-Meteo.