Climate averages 1991–2020

Kamina weather
in March.

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

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

Average high 26.9°C Daytime mean, March

Average low 18.6°C Night-time mean, March

Rainfall 199 mm 25 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

March is a warm month in Kamina: daytime highs average 26.9°C and nights cool to about 18.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 8th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 199 mm of rain on roughly 25 days, which makes March a very wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 09 min on an average March day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Bukama (108 km away). In March its highs average 29.3°C, 2.4°C warmer than Kamina, with 157 mm of rain.

Among the 60 cities listed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kamina ranks joint 49th of 60 for the warmest March highs and 53rd of 60 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 60 cities is 29.1°C; Kamina is 2.2°C cooler than that mean.

From March to April, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 27.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 199 mm to 89 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

Kamina climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Kamina, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January	26.2°C18.3°C	18.3°C	217	26.4	12.613 h
February	26.8°C18.6°C	18.6°C	180	23.1	12.412 h
March, selected	26.9°C18.6°C	18.6°C	199	24.7	12.212 h
April	27.3°C18.7°C	18.7°C	89	13.7	11.912 h
May	29.0°C18.9°C	18.9°C	7.4	1.5	11.712 h
June	29.5°C17.8°C	17.8°C	0.4	0.1	11.612 h
July	29.8°C17.6°C	17.6°C	0.2	0.1	11.712 h
August	31.2°C19.2°C	19.2°C	3.5	0.7	11.812 h
September	30.8°C19.5°C	19.5°C	35	6.5	12.012 h
October	28.4°C19.0°C	19.0°C	123	19.8	12.312 h
November	26.7°C18.3°C	18.3°C	210	25.6	12.513 h
December	26.1°C18.2°C	18.2°C	224	27.0	12.613 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

March 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.