Climate averages 1991–2020

Bulungu weather
in March.

A hot, wet month: the 6th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.

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

Average high 31.0°C Daytime mean, March

Average low 22.5°C Night-time mean, March

Rainfall 156 mm 23 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

March is a hot month in Bulungu: daytime highs average 31.0°C and nights cool to about 22.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 156 mm of rain on roughly 23 days, which makes March a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 08 min on an average March day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Kikwit (60 km away). In March its highs average 30.4°C, 0.6°C cooler than Bulungu, with 133 mm of rain.

Among the 60 cities listed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Bulungu ranks 9th of 60 for the warmest March highs and joint 28th of 60 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 60 cities is 29.1°C; Bulungu is 1.9°C warmer than that mean.

From March to April, average highs fall by 0.7°C to 30.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 156 mm to 164 mm.

The annual picture

March 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

Bulungu climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Bulungu, 1991–2020
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, selected	31.0°C22.5°C	22.5°C	156	22.8	12.112 h
April	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

March in nearby cities

Distance from Bulungu

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