Climate averages 1991–2020

Bumba 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 32.3°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 23.1°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 41 mm 8 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Bumba: daytime highs average 32.3°C and nights cool to about 23.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 41 mm of rain on roughly 8 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 00 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Lisala (106 km away). In January its highs average 31.9°C, about as warm as Bumba, with 45 mm of rain.

Among the 60 cities listed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Bumba ranks 5th of 60 for the warmest January highs and joint 8th of 60 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 60 cities is 28.8°C; Bumba is 3.5°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 32.7°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 41 mm to 70 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

Bumba climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Bumba, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	32.3°C23.1°C	23.1°C	41	8.2	12.012 h
February	32.7°C23.6°C	23.6°C	70	11.2	12.012 h
March	31.6°C23.6°C	23.6°C	136	18.5	12.112 h
April	30.5°C23.5°C	23.5°C	143	21.0	12.212 h
May	30.1°C23.4°C	23.4°C	126	21.2	12.212 h
June	29.5°C22.8°C	22.8°C	108	19.9	12.212 h
July	29.2°C22.3°C	22.3°C	119	21.7	12.212 h
August	28.9°C22.2°C	22.2°C	150	24.3	12.212 h
September	29.1°C22.4°C	22.4°C	157	24.7	12.112 h
October	28.8°C22.4°C	22.4°C	179	25.8	12.112 h
November	29.0°C22.6°C	22.6°C	145	23.0	12.012 h
December	30.5°C22.9°C	22.9°C	60	11.1	12.012 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 Bumba

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