Climate averages 1991–2020

Kasongo weather
in January.

A hot, 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 28.2°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 20.7°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 178 mm 22 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Kasongo: daytime highs average 28.2°C and nights cool to about 20.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 9th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 178 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 21 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Kongolo (113 km away). In January its highs average 28.7°C, about as warm as Kasongo, with 192 mm of rain.

Among the 60 cities listed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kasongo ranks joint 39th of 60 for the warmest January highs and 42nd of 60 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 60 cities is 28.8°C; Kasongo is 0.5°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.7°C to 28.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 178 mm to 157 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

Kasongo climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Kasongo, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	28.2°C20.7°C	20.7°C	178	22.3	12.312 h
February	28.9°C21.1°C	21.1°C	157	18.2	12.312 h
March	28.8°C21.2°C	21.2°C	194	21.7	12.112 h
April	28.8°C21.2°C	21.2°C	165	20.9	12.012 h
May	29.9°C21.1°C	21.1°C	64	11.5	11.912 h
June	31.3°C20.6°C	20.6°C	14	3.4	11.912 h
July	32.3°C20.5°C	20.5°C	8.8	2.2	11.912 h
August	31.2°C21.0°C	21.0°C	43	8.8	12.012 h
September	29.6°C21.0°C	21.0°C	106	17.7	12.112 h
October	28.1°C20.7°C	20.7°C	206	25.0	12.212 h
November	27.5°C20.5°C	20.5°C	245	25.7	12.312 h
December	27.6°C20.5°C	20.5°C	209	25.2	12.412 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 Kasongo

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