The best time to travel to climb Kilimanjaro/Mount Meru is during the dry season – from December to mid March, and from late June to October. The best months are January, February, July, August, September and October.

Generally the following seems quite common: From mid december to mid of march you will get a dry but also very cold season (On the mountain!). That in specific means, snow is most likely your companion, but at least on the peak. The advantage of this season is obvious: less travelers.

The rain season starts very rough during March and continues over April, from time to time till mid of may. We know people who got their best experience traveling to Mount Meru during the German Pentecost holidays, which was from mid of may till end of may. Our guests were the only ones on the mountain, the only guests on the peak, and the only guests in the cottages. THIS cannot be more private than anything else. So it’s definitely worth thinking about it.

The dry and “warm” season on the mountains starts then from June with their peak of the season in August and September and runs till October. You can expect around 5 degrees on the top of Africa, snow also because of the glacier, but the paths were free to go and without snow at all. This time means one slice of clothes less than in Q1 of a year.

November is another month with rain. So we would not suggest book tours during this time of a season. It’s possible but not really recommended.

In the following graphik you can see pictures from our guides during the whole year, so you can get a nice impression. No guarantee (for sure), but nice to get an idea of the weather. We also recommend taking a look into our realtime ”Picture of the day” rubric, where our guides show the weather on the TOP of Africa on a daily basis.