Better Weather for Every Zimbabwean — and How You Can Help

If you farm, trade, travel or just hang washing on the line, you already know the problem: the weather forecast you get is usually for somewhere else. It's modelled far away, it doesn't know our hills and valleys, and it doesn't speak to our seasons — Masika, Chirimo, Zhizha, Munakamwe.

Mukoko weather was built to fix that, here, for us.

Free, local, and actually useful

Mukoko weather gives you real-time forecasts, seven-day outlooks and frost and dry-spell alerts for over a thousand places across Zimbabwe — and it's free, with no ads. Open it, pick your area, and Shamwari, our weather assistant, gives you a straight answer instead of a wall of numbers: plant this week, or wait?

It's built for how we actually connect — light on data, quick on a cheap Android phone, and grounded in our own geography and seasons rather than a generic global template.

Now we're going deeper — into the ground

Here's the part you can be part of. The reason forecasts across Africa are so often wrong is that there are barely any real weather stations feeding them — fewer in the whole continent than in a single European country. So we're putting our own stations in our own fields.

They're small, solar-powered weather stations that sit on a farm or at a school and measure what's really happening — then feed that back so the forecast for your whole area gets sharper. Every station added makes Mukoko weather better for everyone around it.

Host a station in your community

We're looking for the first people and places to host one. If you have a farm, a school, a cooperative or a patch of ground and you want better weather for your community, we'd love to hear from you. For smallholders and community sites, hosting is free.

Sign up to host a weather station →

Weather should be a public good — accurate, local, and free for every Zimbabwean. Help us build it.

Ndiri nekuti tiri — I am because we are.