Safari Intelligence
Not brochure claims — scores computed from three years of rainfall and temperature at each park, matched against the safaris that actually go there.
Great Migration Tracker
1.5 million wildebeest, moving in a continuous loop through the Serengeti–Mara ecosystem.
The vanguard reaches the Mara River. First crossings, depending entirely on the rains.
Itinerary generator
It scores every park for your month, then builds a route — weighing each park's quality against the hours it costs to drive there — allocates nights, and prices it against 29 of our own published safaris.
Ranked by dryness and heat — the two things that decide whether you actually see animals.
Scored by averaging every park on the route for this month.
Species Intelligence
Conservation status from the IUCN Red List, with the assessment year — so you can check us. Where a reliable population estimate doesn't exist, we say so rather than invent one.
Down from roughly 33,000 in 2006 — about a 30% fall in under two decades. The Serengeti–Ngorongoro ecosystem holds one of the largest remaining populations.
IUCN split the African elephant into two species in 2021 and uplisted the savanna elephant to Endangered. Sites still calling it "Vulnerable" are quoting an assessment that no longer stands.
Least Concern globally — but the migratory population is an ecological phenomenon, not a species-level safety net. Its survival depends on the corridor staying open.
The Serengeti–Mara landscape holds one of the world's most important populations. Cheetah need open country and lose kills to lions and hyena, so they favour the short-grass plains.
No reliable continent-wide population estimate exists — they are nocturnal, solitary and superbly cryptic. Any site quoting you a precise leopard count is guessing.
Critically Endangered, but slowly recovering from a low of about 2,400 in the 1990s — one of conservation's genuine, hard-won wins. The Ngorongoro Crater is among the most reliable places to see one.
Downlisted from Critically Endangered to Endangered in 2018 after the population passed a thousand. Numbers are rising — the only great ape of which that is true.
The Mahale and Gombe populations are among the most-studied wild chimpanzees on earth, thanks to research that has run continuously for over sixty years.
The whole year
| Destination | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Serengeti National Park | 52 | 90 | 56 | 25 | 78 | 100 | 100 | 95 | 84 | 83 | 35 | 37 |
Hiking & Trekking Intelligence
Kilimanjaro Region
Mount Kilimanjaro is a large dormant volcano in Tanzania. It is the highest mountain in Africa and the highest free-standing mountain above sea level in the world, at 5,895 m (19,341 ft) above sea level and… Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Every score on this page is computed, not asserted. For each park we pull three years of daily rainfall and temperature from the Open-Meteo historical archive, average it by month, and score each month relative to that park's own driest and wettest months — because 80mm is a dry month in a rainforest and a wet one in a semi-desert.
Dryness carries 75% of the weight and heat 25%. The reasoning is mechanical rather than mystical: as surface water dries up, animals concentrate around what's left, and thinning vegetation means you can see them. We show the underlying millimetres next to every score so you can disagree with our weighting and still use the data.
Peak elevations come from Wikidata; summit conditions are modelled at the true summit height. Acclimatisation estimates apply standard altitude-medicine guidance to that height. Where we have no data — summit success rates, migration river-crossing dates — we say so instead of guessing.
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