Climate averages 1991–2020
Bulungu weather
in November.
A hot, very wet month: the coolest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
November is a hot month in Bulungu: daytime highs average 29.8°C and nights cool to about 21.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 195 mm of rain on roughly 25 days, which makes November a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 19 min on an average November day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Kikwit (60 km away). In November its highs average 29.1°C, 0.6°C cooler than Bulungu, with 178 mm of rain.
Among the 60 cities listed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Bulungu ranks joint 4th of 60 for the warmest November highs and 43rd of 60 for the driest November (rainfall, lowest first). The mean November high of those 60 cities is 28.1°C; Bulungu is 1.7°C warmer than that mean.
From November to December, average highs rise by 0.1°C to 29.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 195 mm to 169 mm.
The annual picture
November 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 | 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, selected | 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
November in nearby cities
- Kikwit in NovemberDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 60 kmHigh 29.1°C · Low 21.0°C · 178 mm rain
- Idiofa in NovemberDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 119 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 19.9°C · 185 mm rain
- Bandundu Province in NovemberDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 192 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 22.6°C · 186 mm rain
- Ilebo in NovemberDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 221 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 21.9°C · 158 mm rain
- Tshikapa in NovemberDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 320 kmHigh 29.6°C · Low 21.5°C · 177 mm rain
- Mweka in NovemberDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 329 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 20.9°C · 182 mm rain
- Masina in NovemberDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 357 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 22.4°C · 188 mm rain
- Kinshasa in NovemberDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 366 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 22.3°C · 183 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.