Climate averages 1991–2020

Kabalo weather
in January.

A hot, wet month: the 10th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.

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

Average high 29.0°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 21.4°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 165 mm 21 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Kabalo: daytime highs average 29.0°C and nights cool to about 21.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 10th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 165 mm of rain on roughly 21 days, which makes January a wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 26 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Kongolo (75 km away). In January its highs average 28.7°C, about as warm as Kabalo, with 192 mm of rain.

Among the 60 cities listed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kabalo ranks 27th of 60 for the warmest January highs and 40th of 60 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 60 cities is 28.8°C; Kabalo is 0.3°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.8°C to 29.8°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 165 mm to 138 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

Kabalo climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Kabalo, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	29.0°C21.4°C	21.4°C	165	21.0	12.412 h
February	29.8°C21.7°C	21.7°C	138	18.5	12.312 h
March	29.9°C21.8°C	21.8°C	166	20.8	12.112 h
April	30.5°C21.8°C	21.8°C	129	18.5	12.012 h
May	32.8°C22.0°C	22.0°C	26	5.9	11.812 h
June	34.3°C21.6°C	21.6°C	2.6	0.5	11.812 h
July	34.7°C21.4°C	21.4°C	0.6	0.1	11.812 h
August	34.5°C22.2°C	22.2°C	12	2.2	11.912 h
September	32.7°C22.4°C	22.4°C	50	8.9	12.112 h
October	30.3°C21.8°C	21.8°C	138	19.7	12.212 h
November	28.9°C21.3°C	21.3°C	199	23.8	12.412 h
December	28.6°C21.2°C	21.2°C	192	24.1	12.512 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.

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January in nearby cities

Distance from Kabalo

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