Climate averages 1991–2020
Kinshasa weather
in February.
A hot, wet month: the 5th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a hot month in Kinshasa: daytime highs average 30.0°C and nights cool to about 22.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 103 mm of rain on roughly 16 days, which makes February a wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 15 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Brazzaville (8 km away). In February its highs average 30.0°C, about as warm as Kinshasa, with 103 mm of rain.
Among the 60 cities listed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kinshasa ranks joint 24th of 60 for the warmest February highs and joint 19th of 60 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 60 cities is 29.4°C; Kinshasa is 0.7°C warmer than that mean.
From February to March, average highs rise by 0.3°C to 30.3°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 103 mm to 109 mm.
The annual picture
February 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, selected | 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 | 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
February in nearby cities
- Brazzaville in FebruaryRepublic of the Congo · 8 kmHigh 30.0°C · Low 22.8°C · 103 mm rain
- Masina in FebruaryDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 11 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 22.9°C · 103 mm rain
- Inkisi in FebruaryDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 94 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 21.8°C · 100 mm rain
- Mbanza-Ngungu in FebruaryDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 115 kmHigh 27.9°C · Low 20.3°C · 115 mm rain
- Kimpese in FebruaryDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 168 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 22.4°C · 104 mm rain
- Nkayi in FebruaryRepublic of the Congo · 225 kmHigh 30.8°C · Low 22.9°C · 120 mm rain
- Mbanza Kongo in FebruaryAngola · 246 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 21.1°C · 127 mm rain
- Bandundu Province in FebruaryDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 255 kmHigh 30.7°C · Low 23.2°C · 133 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.