Maputo
Mozambique's capital on the Indian Ocean, Maputo is a port city with a walkable downtown — the Baixa — dense with restaurants, music venues, and a café scene, set against an eclectic architectural backdrop that mixes Portuguese colonial Neoclassical and Manueline styles with art deco, Bauhaus, tropical modernism, and Brutalist buildings. Landmarks include Independence Square, Maputo Fortress, and the 19th-century railway station. Wide avenues lined with jacaranda and acacia trees earned the city its nickname, City of Acacias. The city was known as Lourenço Marques until 1976.
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- Population1,254,837
- Nearest water from center 2.6 km1.6 mi
- Nearest mountain from center 36 km22 mi
Maputo: quick answers
Where is Maputo?
Maputo is in Mozambique.
How do you get to Maputo?
The nearest airport is Maputo (MPM), about 20 min away by road.
What's the weather like in Maputo?
The warmest month is February, averaging 26°C78°F across day and night; the coolest is July, at 19°C67°F. The wettest month is January, with about 128 mm5.0 in of precipitation. (Monthly averages, 1991–2020.)
What's in Maputo?
OpenStreetMap lists 8 museums, 81 restaurants and 62 places of worship within 2 km of the centre.
What's near Maputo?
Other Wandering Well picks within 60 km include Namaacha, Marracuene and Matola.