Climate averages 1991–2020
Kinshasa weather
in August.
A hot, very dry month: the 4th warmest and the 3rd driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a hot month in Kinshasa: daytime highs average 30.2°C and nights cool to about 20.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 4.7 mm of rain on roughly 1 day, which makes August a very dry month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 11 h 58 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Brazzaville (8 km away). In August its highs average 30.1°C, about as warm as Kinshasa, with 4.7 mm of rain.
Among the 60 cities listed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kinshasa ranks joint 26th of 60 for the warmest August highs and 17th of 60 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 60 cities is 29.7°C; Kinshasa is 0.5°C warmer than that mean.
From August to September, average highs rise by 1.1°C to 31.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 4.7 mm to 16 mm.
The annual picture
August 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 | 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, selected | 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
August in nearby cities
- Brazzaville in AugustRepublic of the Congo · 8 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 20.4°C · 4.7 mm rain
- Masina in AugustDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 11 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 20.3°C · 5.9 mm rain
- Inkisi in AugustDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 94 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 19.2°C · 5.7 mm rain
- Mbanza-Ngungu in AugustDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 115 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 17.2°C · 5.6 mm rain
- Kimpese in AugustDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 168 kmHigh 28.6°C · Low 19.1°C · 3.4 mm rain
- Nkayi in AugustRepublic of the Congo · 225 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 20.0°C · 2.5 mm rain
- Mbanza Kongo in AugustAngola · 246 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 17.5°C · 3.0 mm rain
- Bandundu Province in AugustDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 255 kmHigh 32.3°C · Low 23.0°C · 43 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.