What's weather like in Harare?

Good: weather, friendly people
Not so good: electricity cuts, potholes, unemployment

Harare, which translates to, “one that never sleeps”, lives up to its name. It is a beautiful, vibrant and loud city with people from different backgrounds with the aim to do business. It is known as sunshine city and is congested with friendly people. From every corner of the busy streets, one ma identify street vendors selling anything imaginable. However, some of the roads have no street lights and traffic lights are not in a working conditions. Surprisingly, the city is not accident prone as you might think.

Harare is the capital of Zimbabwe. It is the Sunshine City because it is warm, and we experience approximately twelve hours of sunshine throughout the year. The city is quiet, with a reasonably low crime rate. The people in Harare are very welcoming and friendly.

Harare is the capital of Zimbabwe, also known as the Sunshine city. The city is clean but of late, visitors face challenges on the roads because of potholes and experience power cuts and water rationing in some residential areas. Generally, the people are friendly to visitors and most people are comfortable using the English language.

Moving to Harare would be a totally different experience, especially for someone coming from the northern hemisphere. Harare is a sunshine city, with summer temperatures around 30 degrees Celsius and winter temperatures that go a low as four (4) degrees Celsius. It hardly goes to zero. The Harare people are a jovial lot, who are very welcoming to foreigners. They have fully accepted diversity and cultural tolerance, hence the belief that we are all equal and that every life matters. There is freedom of speech and of association.

Harare is the capital of Zimbabwe with many high and low density towns. If one prefers quiet and piece then I would urge you to stay in the low density owns but If one likes noise and fun then the high density towns can be the right choice. Harare is the largest and cleanest city in Zimbabwe that why the inhabitants of Harare call it the Sunshine City.

Anyone, moving to Harare should know during summer it can be extremely hot with the temperature reaching up to 30 degrees. I would, therefore, advise anyone moving to this city to be cautious of the weather. Primarily it would be wise to carry more summer clothes than warm ones.

You will find beautiful, sunny weather and friendly faces. However, corruption is rampant, police are only out for money, in the sense you are able to bribe your way out of any situation, and the government does not care about its people. Prices in the shops fluctuate more than salaries, but Zimbabweans are known to “make a plan”.

If moving to Harare know jobs are not easily available and summers are very hot. There are a lot of restaurants and food courts for you to eat from for example Nandos, chicken inn, pizza inn and a whole lot of other places. You must especially visit lion and cheater park a game drive where you will see lions and many other interesting animals.