Golfe
City in Angola: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Overview
Golfe is a city in Angola, in Luanda. About 655,796 people live in the city proper, making it the 7th largest city of Angola in our atlas.
It lies at 8.87° S, 13.26° E, about 75 m (246 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Africa/Luanda time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Golfe. Green dots: other major cities of Angola. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Golfe has a hot desert climate (Köppen BWh). The warmest month is usually Feb, with average highs near 30°C (86°F); the coolest nights come in Jul at about 19°C (67°F). Around 324 mm (13 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Apr.
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 AngolaNational dishes, street food, desserts and drinks on Intercontinental Chef.Nearby major cities
- Maianga · 3 km
- Luanda · 4 km
- Hoji ya Henda · 7 km
- Camama · 8 km
- Mulenvos · 8 km
- Kikolo · 12 km
- Viana · 13 km
- Calumbo · 36 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 2591953 (CC BY 4.0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Palácio de Ferro: Zorglub, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Museu Nacional de Antropologia in Luanda - Angola 2015: David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Pavilhão da Cidadela: NASA World Wind, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Pavilhão Anexo: NASA World Wind, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
