Blantyre
City in Malawi: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Blantyre City: SMuyila, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Blantyre is a city in Malawi, in Southern Region. About 902,588 people live in the city proper, making it the 2nd largest city of Malawi in our atlas.
It lies at 15.78° S, 35.01° E, about 1,041 m (3,415 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Africa/Blantyre time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Blantyre. Green dots: other major cities of Malawi. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Blantyre has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). The warmest month is usually Oct, with average highs near 35°C (96°F); the coolest nights come in Jul at about 13°C (55°F). Around 1,175 mm (46 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Jan.
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 MalawiNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Zomba · 55 km
- Liwonde · 83 km
- Mangochi · 148 km
- Salima · 230 km
- Lilongwe · 240 km
- Kasungu · 346 km
- Mzuzu · 491 km
- Karonga · 660 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 931755 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q188693 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Blantyre City: SMuyila, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)