Weather in Kinshasa, month by month

Warmest month
September, 25.7
Coldest month
July, 23.6
Wettest month
November, 317 mm
Year
2001-2020
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Across the 2001-2020 normals, the warmest month in Kinshasa is September at 25.7 degrees and the coldest is July at 23.6, a swing of 2.2 degrees over the year. Those are monthly averages for the model cell the city sits in, not readings from a weather station in it.

Rain is heaviest in November, about 317 mm, and lightest in July at roughly 4 mm. Over a full year the cell above Kinshasa collects around 1,910 mm.

The months whose average sits between 15 and 24 degrees are June and July. That band is this page's own definition of mild and is stated so you can disagree with it rather than guess at it.

Humidity peaks in April at 83 percent, and the windiest month is August at 2 metres per second. Both are monthly means from the same twenty year series as the temperatures.

Rainfall is not spread evenly: 75 per cent of the year total falls in November, December, January, February, March and April.

Every figure here comes from one NASA POWER grid cell, at -4.33, 15.31, covering Kinshasa on the 2001-2020 climatology. One cell, one period and one provider for every month, which is what makes the twelve rows comparable with each other.

The source publishes a monthly mean and, separately, the highest and lowest values it recorded in twenty years. Those extremes are not a typical afternoon or a typical night, so nothing here is quoted as one. This page does not say what the daytime high usually is, because this source cannot say it.

Normals are not a forecast. They describe what twenty years averaged to, and any single year can sit well outside them. They also describe a model grid cell of roughly fifty kilometres rather than a weather station, so a coastal city and the sea beside it share one figure.

Weather in Kinshasa, month by month

MonthMean temperatureRainfallHumidity
January24.9184 mm82%
February25.2186 mm82%
March25.3229 mm83%
April25.3236 mm83%
May25155 mm83%
June23.816 mm78%
July23.64 mm75%
August24.721 mm71%
September25.778 mm71%
October25.4207 mm78%
November24.7317 mm83%
December24.6276 mm83%

Questions

What is the warmest month in Kinshasa?

September, on the 2001-2020 monthly averages.

What is the coldest month in Kinshasa?

July, on the same twenty year series.

When does it rain most in Kinshasa?

November carries the highest monthly total in the 2001-2020 normals.

Weather in Kisangani, month by month

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Sources

  • NASA POWER, https://power.larc.nasa.gov/api/temporal/climatology/point (CC BY 4.0; 'There are no restrictions on the use, access, and/or download of data from the NASA POWER Project' (AWS Open Data Registry entry))