Climate averages 1991–2020
Kinshasa weather
in March.
A hot, wet month: the 3rd warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a hot month in Kinshasa: daytime highs average 30.3°C and nights cool to about 23.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 109 mm of rain on roughly 18 days, which makes March a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 08 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Brazzaville (8 km away). In March its highs average 30.3°C, about as warm as Kinshasa, with 109 mm of rain.
Among the 60 cities listed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kinshasa ranks 21st of 60 for the warmest March highs and 7th of 60 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 60 cities is 29.1°C; Kinshasa is 1.2°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 0.5°C to 29.9°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 109 mm to 140 mm.
The annual picture
March 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, selected | 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
March in nearby cities
- Brazzaville in MarchRepublic of the Congo · 8 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 23.0°C · 109 mm rain
- Masina in MarchDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 11 kmHigh 30.4°C · Low 23.1°C · 125 mm rain
- Inkisi in MarchDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 94 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 21.9°C · 128 mm rain
- Mbanza-Ngungu in MarchDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 115 kmHigh 28.2°C · Low 20.4°C · 147 mm rain
- Kimpese in MarchDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 168 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 22.6°C · 130 mm rain
- Nkayi in MarchRepublic of the Congo · 225 kmHigh 31.0°C · Low 23.1°C · 125 mm rain
- Mbanza Kongo in MarchAngola · 246 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 21.3°C · 152 mm rain
- Bandundu Province in MarchDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 255 kmHigh 30.8°C · Low 23.4°C · 154 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.