Beira
City in Mozambique: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Beira center 2000: SSgt Robert Talenti, USAF, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Beira is a city in Mozambique, in Sofala. About 687,764 people live in the city proper, making it the 4th largest city of Mozambique in our atlas.
It lies at 19.84° S, 34.84° E, about 6 m (20 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Africa/Maputo time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Beira. Green dots: other major cities of Mozambique. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Beira has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). The warmest month is usually Jan, with average highs near 29°C (85°F); the coolest nights come in Jul at about 20°C (68°F). Around 895 mm (35 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Dec.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
Landmarks and places to see
Popular sights within a few kilometres of the city centre, ranked by how widely they are documented on Wikipedia.
What to eat in MozambiqueNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Chimoio · 163 km
- Quelimane · 306 km
- Mocuba · 402 km
- Tete · 430 km
- Gurúè · 535 km
- Nampula · 699 km
- Maputo · 719 km
- Matola · 723 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 1052373 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q211563 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Beira center 2000: SSgt Robert Talenti, USAF, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)