Month by month
Matusadona in November
November is two months in one: hot and dry at the start, broken by the first storms later on, with green-season rates from the first of the month at some lodges.
If you only want the answer
November is a gamble that often pays: good viewing until the rains arrive, green-season prices from 1 November at Changa, and dramatic skies. Stay flexible on dates.
Weather
Heat before the storms, then rain returning through the month on the model normals. The information pack starts its wet season in November, the management plan in December.
On the thirty-year model normals November averages 30.1°C by day and 21.2°C at night, with 134 mm of rain over 15 wet days.
Game
Good while the bush stays dry; once rain falls, animals begin to disperse from the lakeshore.
Rates
Changa's green season starts on 1 November at $440 per person per night international. Bumi Hills lists $850 for November 2026.
The lake
Check the Zambezi River Authority's current Lake Kariba reading before you go: on 22 September 2026 the lake stood at 481.13 m, 40.89% of usable storage, far higher than a year earlier, and the level shapes the lakeshore grassland where most of the game is. We have no sourced month-by-month lake cycle, so we do not predict one.