Climate averages 1991–2020
Kinshasa weather
in November.
A hot, very wet month: the 11th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
November is a hot month in Kinshasa: daytime highs average 29.0°C and nights cool to about 22.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 183 mm of rain on roughly 25 days, which makes November a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 18 min on an average November day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Brazzaville (8 km away). In November its highs average 29.0°C, about as warm as Kinshasa, with 183 mm of rain.
Among the 60 cities listed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kinshasa ranks joint 17th of 60 for the warmest November highs and joint 34th of 60 for the driest November (rainfall, lowest first). The mean November high of those 60 cities is 28.1°C; Kinshasa is 1.0°C warmer than that mean.
From November to December, average highs fall by 0.2°C to 28.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 183 mm to 156 mm.
The annual picture
November 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 | 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, selected | 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
November in nearby cities
- Brazzaville in NovemberRepublic of the Congo · 8 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 22.3°C · 183 mm rain
- Masina in NovemberDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 11 kmHigh 29.2°C · Low 22.4°C · 188 mm rain
- Inkisi in NovemberDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 94 kmHigh 28.6°C · Low 21.2°C · 203 mm rain
- Mbanza-Ngungu in NovemberDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 115 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 19.8°C · 222 mm rain
- Kimpese in NovemberDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 168 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 22.0°C · 179 mm rain
- Nkayi in NovemberRepublic of the Congo · 225 kmHigh 30.2°C · Low 22.6°C · 158 mm rain
- Mbanza Kongo in NovemberAngola · 246 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 20.8°C · 207 mm rain
- Bandundu Province in NovemberDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 255 kmHigh 29.4°C · Low 22.6°C · 186 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.