Weather in Lubumbashi, month by month

Warmest month
October, 25.7
Coldest month
June, 16.7
Wettest month
December, 268 mm
Year
2001-2020
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Across the 2001-2020 normals, the warmest month in Lubumbashi is October at 25.7 degrees and the coldest is June at 16.7, a swing of 9 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 December, about 268 mm, and lightest in June at roughly 1 mm. Over a full year the cell above Lubumbashi collects around 1,120 mm.

The months whose average sits between 15 and 24 degrees are January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, November and December. 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 January at 84 percent, and the windiest month is September at 2.3 metres per second. Both are monthly means from the same twenty year series as the temperatures.

Rainfall is not spread evenly: 97 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 -11.66, 27.48, covering Lubumbashi 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 Lubumbashi, month by month

MonthMean temperatureRainfallHumidity
January21.1252 mm84%
February21.2200 mm84%
March21.2176 mm84%
April20.156 mm81%
May18.44 mm73%
June16.71 mm65%
July16.81 mm58%
August19.71 mm47%
September23.43 mm38%
October25.729 mm44%
November23.8131 mm66%
December21.6268 mm82%

Questions

What is the warmest month in Lubumbashi?

October, on the 2001-2020 monthly averages.

What is the coldest month in Lubumbashi?

June, on the same twenty year series.

When does it rain most in Lubumbashi?

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

Weather in Mbuji-Mayi, month by month

Same data, same method, different place.

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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))