Climate averages 1991–2020

Kalemie weather
in January.

A warm, wet month: the 9th warmest and the 8th driest of the year.

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

Average high 26.8°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 21.3°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 108 mm 22 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Kalemie: daytime highs average 26.8°C and nights cool to about 21.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 108 mm of rain on roughly 22 days, which makes January a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 25 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Kalima (120 km away). In January its highs average 27.7°C, 0.9°C warmer than Kalemie, with 198 mm of rain.

Among the 60 cities listed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kalemie ranks 49th of 60 for the warmest January highs and 18th of 60 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 60 cities is 28.8°C; Kalemie is 1.9°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.5°C to 27.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 108 mm to 92 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

Kalemie climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Kalemie, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	26.8°C21.3°C	21.3°C	108	21.7	12.412 h
February	27.3°C21.7°C	21.7°C	92	17.6	12.312 h
March	26.9°C21.6°C	21.6°C	148	22.7	12.112 h
April	26.2°C21.4°C	21.4°C	180	23.2	12.012 h
May	26.7°C21.6°C	21.6°C	61	10.1	11.812 h
June	27.2°C20.9°C	20.9°C	2.3	0.7	11.812 h
July	27.2°C20.3°C	20.3°C	0.8	0.2	11.812 h
August	28.6°C20.9°C	20.9°C	2.9	0.6	11.912 h
September	29.8°C21.9°C	21.9°C	11	2.6	12.112 h
October	29.0°C22.1°C	22.1°C	58	10.3	12.212 h
November	27.0°C21.4°C	21.4°C	111	18.1	12.412 h
December	26.3°C21.1°C	21.1°C	123	23.3	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.

Compare places

January in nearby cities

Distance from Kalemie

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