Climate averages 1991–2020
Kinshasa weather
in April.
A hot, wet month: the joint 6th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a hot month in Kinshasa: daytime highs average 29.9°C and nights cool to about 23.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 6th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 140 mm of rain on roughly 21 days, which makes April a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 01 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Brazzaville (8 km away). In April its highs average 29.8°C, about as warm as Kinshasa, with 140 mm of rain.
Among the 60 cities listed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kinshasa ranks joint 20th of 60 for the warmest April highs and joint 24th of 60 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 60 cities is 28.7°C; Kinshasa is 1.2°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs fall by 0.2°C to 29.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 140 mm to 73 mm.
The annual picture
April in context
Monthly rainfall
Average total · mmAverages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated
Every month, side by side
Kinshasa climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29.4°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 116 | 20.9 | 12.312 h |
| February | 30.0°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 103 | 15.8 | 12.212 h |
| March | 30.3°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 109 | 17.9 | 12.112 h |
| April, selected | 29.9°C23.0°C | 23.0°C | 140 | 21.2 | 12.012 h |
| May | 29.7°C22.6°C | 22.6°C | 73 | 14.5 | 11.912 h |
| June | 29.7°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 4.0 | 1.2 | 11.912 h |
| July | 29.9°C19.8°C | 19.8°C | 0.6 | 0.2 | 11.912 h |
| August | 30.2°C20.4°C | 20.4°C | 4.7 | 1.0 | 12.012 h |
| September | 31.2°C21.7°C | 21.7°C | 16 | 5.0 | 12.112 h |
| October | 30.4°C22.5°C | 22.5°C | 112 | 18.7 | 12.212 h |
| November | 29.0°C22.3°C | 22.3°C | 183 | 25.0 | 12.312 h |
| December | 28.9°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 156 | 24.9 | 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
April in nearby cities
- Brazzaville in AprilRepublic of the Congo · 8 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 23.0°C · 140 mm rain
- Masina in AprilDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 11 kmHigh 29.9°C · Low 23.1°C · 186 mm rain
- Inkisi in AprilDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 94 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 21.6°C · 174 mm rain
- Mbanza-Ngungu in AprilDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 115 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 20.2°C · 201 mm rain
- Kimpese in AprilDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 168 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 22.4°C · 176 mm rain
- Nkayi in AprilRepublic of the Congo · 225 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 23.0°C · 150 mm rain
- Mbanza Kongo in AprilAngola · 246 kmHigh 28.6°C · Low 21.2°C · 229 mm rain
- Bandundu Province in AprilDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 255 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 23.2°C · 167 mm rain
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 limitsHow these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Kinshasa) is explained once on the Kinshasa year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Brazzaville lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures come from the same 0.1° cell and differ only by the elevation adjustment.