Climate averages 1991–2020

Inkisi weather
in March.

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

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

Average high 29.8°C Daytime mean, March

Average low 21.9°C Night-time mean, March

Rainfall 128 mm 20 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

March is a hot month in Inkisi: daytime highs average 29.8°C and nights cool to about 21.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.

Expect about 128 mm of rain on roughly 20 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 Mbanza-Ngungu (26 km away). In March its highs average 28.2°C, 1.6°C cooler than Inkisi, with 147 mm of rain.

Among the 60 cities listed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Inkisi ranks joint 25th of 60 for the warmest March highs and 9th of 60 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 60 cities is 29.1°C; Inkisi is 0.7°C warmer than that mean.

From March to April, average highs fall by 0.5°C to 29.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 128 mm to 174 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

Inkisi climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Inkisi, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	28.8°C21.4°C	21.4°C	134	22.2	12.412 h
February	29.5°C21.8°C	21.8°C	100	17.4	12.312 h
March, selected	29.8°C21.9°C	21.9°C	128	19.8	12.112 h
April	29.3°C21.6°C	21.6°C	174	24.3	12.012 h
May	29.0°C21.4°C	21.4°C	82	15.3	11.912 h
June	28.8°C19.7°C	19.7°C	3.8	0.9	11.812 h
July	29.0°C18.7°C	18.7°C	0.7	0.1	11.912 h
August	28.9°C19.2°C	19.2°C	5.7	1.4	11.912 h
September	29.7°C20.4°C	20.4°C	21	6.1	12.112 h
October	29.6°C21.3°C	21.3°C	116	18.9	12.212 h
November	28.6°C21.2°C	21.2°C	203	25.2	12.312 h
December	28.5°C21.1°C	21.1°C	179	25.6	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 Inkisi

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