Climate averages 1991–2020

Kanyama weather
in March.

A hot, very wet month: the joint 7th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.

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

Average high 28.4°C Daytime mean, March

Average low 19.4°C Night-time mean, March

Rainfall 190 mm 25 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

March is a hot month in Kanyama: daytime highs average 28.4°C and nights cool to about 19.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 7th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 190 mm of rain on roughly 25 days, which makes March a very wet month (the 10th 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 Gandajika (89 km away). In March its highs average 29.5°C, 1.2°C warmer than Kanyama, with 168 mm of rain.

Among the 60 cities listed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kanyama ranks 44th of 60 for the warmest March highs and 50th of 60 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 60 cities is 29.1°C; Kanyama is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.

From March to April, average highs rise by 0.5°C to 28.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 190 mm to 132 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

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	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, selected	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

March 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.