Month by month
Nyerere in February
February is the wetter half of the green season, with more rain than January and less than March, sitting at the point where the short rains are shading into the long ones. It is also the last full month before the first camps close their doors for the season, which makes timing matter here in a way January does not ask of you.
If you only want the answer
February is the wettest of the two green months, birding at its best, and the last full month before Kiba Point and Sand Rivers Selous close for the rains.
Heavier rain, same river advantage
The thirty-year average for February runs to 99 mm of rain across 13 days, days reaching 32.3°C and nights at 23.4°C, noticeably wetter than January and a clear step toward March's peak. The Rufiji and the lakes stay high through it, so the boat program loses nothing: if the sky closes in, the water is still the most reliable way to find game.
Birding remains at its best through this month too, the same rating January carries, though February's heavier rain thickens the bush further and pushes more mammal activity away from the vehicle tracks and toward the floodplain margins.
The last month for two camps
Kiba Point and Sand Rivers Selous both run their season from June through February, which makes this their closing month. If either is on your list, February is the final window before they shut for the rains, reopening only once the dry season resumes.
Everywhere else that will eventually close, Beho Beho, Roho ya Selous, Siwandu, Lake Manze, is still fully open through February. The wave of closures is a March event, not a February one.
Booking around a closing date
If you specifically want Kiba Point or Sand Rivers Selous, book their February dates directly and early: a camp's final month of the season tends to fill from repeat guests trying to catch the last of it before the rains, even at a quiet destination like this one.
The tip for everyone else: treat February as your last chance at green-season boat safaris before the water gets genuinely hard to reach by road, since March brings the rain that starts closing tracks rather than just soaking them.