Climate averages 1991–2020

Kipushi weather
in January.

A warm, very wet month: the 11th warmest and the wettest of the year.

Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.

Average high 24.9°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 17.0°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 290 mm 29 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Kipushi: daytime highs average 24.9°C and nights cool to about 17.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 290 mm of rain on roughly 29 days, which makes January a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 44 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Lubumbashi (27 km away). In January its highs average 25.5°C, 0.6°C warmer than Kipushi, with 258 mm of rain.

Among the 60 cities listed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kipushi ranks 56th of 60 for the warmest January highs and 59th of 60 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 60 cities is 28.8°C; Kipushi is 3.9°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 25.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 290 mm to 238 mm.

The annual picture

January in context

30-year average

Average highAverage low°C

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm

Averages from hourly ERA5 reanalysis data. Actual weather varies from year to year. How these numbers are calculated

Every month, side by side

Kipushi climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Kipushi, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	24.9°C17.0°C	17.0°C	290	28.8	12.713 h
February	25.1°C16.9°C	16.9°C	238	25.2	12.512 h
March	25.2°C16.8°C	16.8°C	201	24.4	12.212 h
April	25.3°C15.7°C	15.7°C	45	7.9	11.812 h
May	26.3°C14.2°C	14.2°C	2.9	0.8	11.612 h
June	25.0°C11.8°C	11.8°C	0.1	0.0	11.411 h
July	24.8°C11.2°C	11.2°C	0	0.0	11.512 h
August	27.7°C13.7°C	13.7°C	0.1	0.0	11.712 h
September	30.5°C16.7°C	16.7°C	3.0	0.8	12.012 h
October	31.0°C18.4°C	18.4°C	31	5.6	12.412 h
November	27.9°C17.6°C	17.6°C	152	20.4	12.613 h
December	25.2°C16.9°C	16.9°C	255	28.5	12.813 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

January in nearby cities

Distance from Kipushi

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 limits

How these numbers are made (what the highs, lows and rain days mean, the sources and the model cell used for Kipushi) is explained once on the Kipushi year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.