Climate averages 1991–2020

Kanyama weather
in January.

A warm, very wet month: the 11th warmest and the 9th driest of the year.

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

Average high 27.4°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 19.1°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 183 mm 24 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Kanyama: daytime highs average 27.4°C and nights cool to about 19.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 183 mm of rain on roughly 24 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 9th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 30 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Gandajika (89 km away). In January its highs average 28.8°C, 1.3°C warmer than Kanyama, with 154 mm of rain.

Among the 60 cities listed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kanyama ranks joint 44th of 60 for the warmest January highs and joint 44th of 60 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 60 cities is 28.8°C; Kanyama is 1.3°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.7°C to 28.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 183 mm to 156 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

Kanyama climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Kanyama, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	27.4°C19.1°C	19.1°C	183	24.2	12.513 h
February	28.1°C19.4°C	19.4°C	156	20.7	12.312 h
March	28.4°C19.4°C	19.4°C	190	24.5	12.112 h
April	28.9°C19.4°C	19.4°C	132	18.7	11.912 h
May	30.9°C19.6°C	19.6°C	22	4.4	11.812 h
June	31.9°C19.1°C	19.1°C	1.9	0.4	11.712 h
July	32.3°C18.9°C	18.9°C	0.9	0.2	11.712 h
August	32.5°C19.5°C	19.5°C	13	3.4	11.912 h
September	30.6°C19.5°C	19.5°C	90	16.5	12.112 h
October	28.4°C19.3°C	19.3°C	168	25.1	12.312 h
November	27.5°C19.0°C	19.0°C	199	27.0	12.512 h
December	27.1°C19.0°C	19.0°C	201	26.5	12.513 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 Kanyama

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