Climate averages 1991–2020

Bumba weather
in March.

A hot, wet month: the 3rd warmest and the 7th driest of the year.

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

Average high 31.6°C Daytime mean, March

Average low 23.6°C Night-time mean, March

Rainfall 136 mm 19 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

March is a hot month in Bumba: daytime highs average 31.6°C and nights cool to about 23.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 136 mm of rain on roughly 19 days, which makes March a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 06 min on an average March day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Lisala (106 km away). In March its highs average 31.2°C, about as warm as Bumba, with 136 mm of rain.

Among the 60 cities listed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Bumba ranks 5th of 60 for the warmest March highs and joint 18th of 60 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 60 cities is 29.1°C; Bumba is 2.5°C warmer than that mean.

From March to April, average highs fall by 1.1°C to 30.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 136 mm to 143 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

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	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, selected	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

March 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.