Climate averages 1991–2020

Gemena weather
in January.

A hot, fairly dry month: the 2nd warmest and the driest of the year.

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

Average high 32.6°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 22.2°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 27 mm 6 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Gemena: daytime highs average 32.6°C and nights cool to about 22.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 27 mm of rain on roughly 6 days, which makes January a fairly dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 57 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Binga (127 km away). In January its highs average 32.2°C, about as warm as Gemena, with 41 mm of rain.

Among the 60 cities listed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gemena ranks 4th of 60 for the warmest January highs and 3rd of 60 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 60 cities is 28.8°C; Gemena is 3.9°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 33.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 27 mm to 51 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

Gemena climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Gemena, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	32.6°C22.2°C	22.2°C	27	5.7	12.012 h
February	33.0°C23.1°C	23.1°C	51	8.6	12.012 h
March	31.8°C23.2°C	23.2°C	132	17.2	12.112 h
April	30.6°C23.0°C	23.0°C	138	18.9	12.212 h
May	30.2°C22.8°C	22.8°C	114	18.9	12.312 h
June	29.6°C22.2°C	22.2°C	95	18.1	12.312 h
July	28.9°C21.6°C	21.6°C	123	21.3	12.312 h
August	28.5°C21.5°C	21.5°C	162	24.8	12.212 h
September	28.8°C21.6°C	21.6°C	159	23.5	12.112 h
October	28.8°C21.7°C	21.7°C	182	25.4	12.012 h
November	29.3°C22.0°C	22.0°C	138	21.2	12.012 h
December	30.7°C21.9°C	21.9°C	44	8.5	11.912 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 Gemena

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