Best time to visit Serengeti
The month-by-month edit — when Serengeti actually opens up, when to avoid it, and how crowds and hotel rates move through the year.
The short answer
When Serengeti is at its best
The Serengeti is the largest, deepest, most consequential safari ecosystem in Africa — 30,000 square kilometres of grassland, woodland, and kopje, supporting 1.5 million wildebeest on a permanent migration loop and the highest big-cat density on the continent. The single most important planning insight is that the Serengeti is too big to base in one place — the wildebeest move continuously, and your camp must be in the right region for the month you visit. Get the geography wrong and you'll have a beautiful trip with no migration; get it right and the experience is unmatched anywhere on earth.
Month by month
The Serengeti calendar
Average daytime high, rain days, crowd pressure (1–5) and hotel-rate index (1–5). Verified against climate-data.org and our hotel-rate tracking.
| Month | Avg high | Rain days | Crowd | Rate idx |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 29°C | 6 d | ||
| Feb | 29°C | 6 d | ||
| Mar | 29°C | 12 d | ||
| Apr | 27°C | 16 d | ||
| May | 26°C | 12 d | ||
| Jun | 25°C | 4 d | ||
| Jul | 25°C | 3 d | ||
| Aug | 26°C | 3 d | ||
| Sep | 28°C | 3 d | ||
| Oct | 29°C | 5 d | ||
| Nov | 28°C | 10 d | ||
| Dec | 28°C | 9 d |
Sources: Numbeo cost-of-living — Serengeti · climate-data.org — Serengeti