Climate averages 1991–2020

Kamina weather
in April.

A warm, moderately wet month: the 7th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.

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

Average high 27.3°C Daytime mean, April
Average low 18.7°C Night-time mean, April
Rainfall 89 mm 14 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Kamina · average highYear overview

April is a warm month in Kamina: daytime highs average 27.3°C and nights cool to about 18.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 89 mm of rain on roughly 14 days, which makes April a moderately wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 55 min on an average April day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Bukama (108 km away). In April its highs average 30.5°C, 3.3°C warmer than Kamina, with 60 mm of rain.

Among the 60 cities listed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kamina ranks 47th of 60 for the warmest April highs and 8th of 60 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 60 cities is 28.7°C; Kamina is 1.5°C cooler than that mean.

From April to May, average highs rise by 1.8°C to 29.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 89 mm to 7.4 mm.

The annual picture

April in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 1520253035 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 2500

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Kamina climate table

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Kamina, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 26.2°C18.3°C18.3°C21726.412.613 h
February 26.8°C18.6°C18.6°C18023.112.412 h
March 26.9°C18.6°C18.6°C19924.712.212 h
April, selected 27.3°C18.7°C18.7°C8913.711.912 h
May 29.0°C18.9°C18.9°C7.41.511.712 h
June 29.5°C17.8°C17.8°C0.40.111.612 h
July 29.8°C17.6°C17.6°C0.20.111.712 h
August 31.2°C19.2°C19.2°C3.50.711.812 h
September 30.8°C19.5°C19.5°C356.512.012 h
October 28.4°C19.0°C19.0°C12319.812.312 h
November 26.7°C18.3°C18.3°C21025.612.513 h
December 26.1°C18.2°C18.2°C22427.012.613 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

April in nearby cities

Distance from Kamina

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