Climate averages 1991–2020

Bukama weather
in January.

A hot, very wet month: the coolest and the wettest of the year.

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

Average high 28.3°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 21.4°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 267 mm 26 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Bukama: daytime highs average 28.3°C and nights cool to about 21.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 267 mm of rain on roughly 26 days, which makes January a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 36 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Kamina (108 km away). In January its highs average 26.2°C, 2.1°C cooler than Bukama, with 217 mm of rain.

Among the 60 cities listed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Bukama ranks joint 37th of 60 for the warmest January highs and 56th of 60 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 60 cities is 28.8°C; Bukama is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.6°C to 28.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 267 mm to 196 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

Bukama climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Bukama, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	28.3°C21.4°C	21.4°C	267	26.0	12.613 h
February	28.9°C21.5°C	21.5°C	196	20.6	12.412 h
March	29.3°C21.5°C	21.5°C	157	20.4	12.212 h
April	30.5°C21.5°C	21.5°C	60	11.1	11.912 h
May	32.9°C21.2°C	21.2°C	5.3	1.1	11.712 h
June	32.9°C20.0°C	20.0°C	0.1	0.1	11.612 h
July	33.0°C19.8°C	19.8°C	0	0.0	11.612 h
August	34.6°C21.3°C	21.3°C	0.7	0.3	11.812 h
September	35.0°C22.6°C	22.6°C	11	3.2	12.012 h
October	32.9°C22.7°C	22.7°C	76	15.0	12.312 h
November	30.1°C21.9°C	21.9°C	156	22.6	12.513 h
December	28.7°C21.4°C	21.4°C	229	25.1	12.613 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 Bukama

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 Bukama) is explained once on the Bukama year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.