Climate averages 1991–2020

Basoko weather
in January.

A hot, moderately wet month: the 2nd warmest and the driest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 31.7°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 23.2°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 54 mm 11 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Basoko: daytime highs average 31.7°C and nights cool to about 23.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 54 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 03 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Bumba (166 km away). In January its highs average 32.3°C, 0.5°C warmer than Basoko, with 41 mm of rain.

Among the 60 cities listed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Basoko ranks 8th of 60 for the warmest January highs and 12th of 60 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 60 cities is 28.8°C; Basoko is 3.0°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.6°C to 32.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 54 mm to 79 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Basoko climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Basoko, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	31.7°C23.2°C	23.2°C	54	10.5	12.112 h
February	32.3°C23.6°C	23.6°C	79	12.4	12.112 h
March	31.4°C23.6°C	23.6°C	134	18.5	12.112 h
April	30.3°C23.5°C	23.5°C	142	20.5	12.112 h
May	29.9°C23.4°C	23.4°C	110	20.9	12.212 h
June	29.6°C22.9°C	22.9°C	92	18.9	12.212 h
July	29.4°C22.5°C	22.5°C	102	20.4	12.212 h
August	29.0°C22.4°C	22.4°C	132	23.7	12.212 h
September	29.1°C22.5°C	22.5°C	144	24.5	12.112 h
October	28.9°C22.6°C	22.6°C	172	25.8	12.112 h
November	28.8°C22.6°C	22.6°C	149	23.2	12.112 h
December	30.1°C22.9°C	22.9°C	78	14.4	12.112 h

Rainfall is the average of the 30 separate monthly totals. A rain day is a local calendar day with at least 1 mm of precipitation. Daylight is the calculated sunrise-to-sunset length, not measured sunshine.

Compare places

January in nearby cities

Distance from Basoko

Read the numbers correctly

Climate, not a promise.

These patterns help compare months. They cannot tell you the weather on a specific day of your trip.

Sources, method and limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Basoko) is explained once on the Basoko year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.