Climate averages 1991–2020
Bulungu weather
in April.
A hot, wet month: the joint 9th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a hot month in Bulungu: daytime highs average 30.3°C and nights cool to about 22.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 164 mm of rain on roughly 23 days, which makes April a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 01 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kikwit (60 km away). In April its highs average 29.7°C, 0.6°C cooler than Bulungu, with 166 mm of rain.
Among the 60 cities listed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Bulungu ranks joint 10th of 60 for the warmest April highs and 41st of 60 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 60 cities is 28.7°C; Bulungu is 1.6°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs rise by 0.3°C to 30.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 164 mm to 85 mm.
The annual picture
April in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Bulungu climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 30.6°C22.1°C | 22.1°C | 142 | 22.0 | 12.412 h |
| February | 31.2°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 137 | 18.5 | 12.312 h |
| March | 31.0°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 156 | 22.8 | 12.112 h |
| April, selected | 30.3°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 164 | 23.0 | 12.012 h |
| May | 30.7°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 85 | 15.3 | 11.912 h |
| June | 32.1°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 18 | 4.2 | 11.912 h |
| July | 33.1°C21.6°C | 21.6°C | 9.0 | 2.6 | 11.912 h |
| August | 32.7°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 46 | 10.5 | 12.012 h |
| September | 31.5°C22.0°C | 22.0°C | 116 | 20.5 | 12.112 h |
| October | 30.3°C21.8°C | 21.8°C | 192 | 25.9 | 12.212 h |
| November | 29.8°C21.8°C | 21.8°C | 195 | 25.4 | 12.312 h |
| December | 29.9°C21.9°C | 21.9°C | 169 | 24.8 | 12.412 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
April in nearby cities
- Kikwit in AprilDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 60 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 21.5°C · 166 mm rain
- Idiofa in AprilDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 119 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 20.5°C · 157 mm rain
- Bandundu Province in AprilDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 192 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 23.2°C · 167 mm rain
- Ilebo in AprilDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 221 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 22.5°C · 138 mm rain
- Tshikapa in AprilDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 320 kmHigh 30.4°C · Low 21.9°C · 153 mm rain
- Mweka in AprilDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 329 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 21.5°C · 163 mm rain
- Masina in AprilDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 357 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 23.1°C · 186 mm rain
- Kinshasa in AprilDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 366 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 23.0°C · 140 mm rain
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 limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Bulungu) is explained once on the Bulungu year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.