Climate averages 1991–2020
Kisangani weather
in April.
A hot, wet month: the 4th warmest and the joint 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a hot month in Kisangani: daytime highs average 29.7°C and nights cool to about 22.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the 4th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 161 mm of rain on roughly 21 days, which makes April a wet month (the joint 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 07 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Basoko (193 km away). In April its highs average 30.3°C, 0.6°C warmer than Kisangani, with 142 mm of rain.
Among the 60 cities listed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kisangani ranks joint 25th of 60 for the warmest April highs and 38th of 60 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 60 cities is 28.7°C; Kisangani is 1.0°C warmer than that mean.
From April to May, average highs fall by 0.4°C to 29.3°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 161 mm to 122 mm.
The annual picture
April 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
Kisangani climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 30.7°C22.4°C | 22.4°C | 70 | 12.8 | 12.112 h |
| February | 31.5°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 91 | 14.1 | 12.112 h |
| March | 30.7°C22.8°C | 22.8°C | 161 | 19.7 | 12.112 h |
| April, selected | 29.7°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 161 | 21.3 | 12.112 h |
| May | 29.3°C22.7°C | 22.7°C | 122 | 21.7 | 12.112 h |
| June | 29.0°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 96 | 19.0 | 12.112 h |
| July | 28.9°C21.8°C | 21.8°C | 96 | 19.4 | 12.112 h |
| August | 28.7°C21.7°C | 21.7°C | 138 | 23.7 | 12.112 h |
| September | 28.7°C21.8°C | 21.8°C | 165 | 24.5 | 12.112 h |
| October | 28.6°C21.9°C | 21.9°C | 186 | 26.3 | 12.112 h |
| November | 28.5°C21.9°C | 21.9°C | 182 | 24.4 | 12.112 h |
| December | 29.4°C22.2°C | 22.2°C | 107 | 18.8 | 12.112 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
April in nearby cities
- Basoko in AprilDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 193 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 23.5°C · 142 mm rain
- Babamba in AprilDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 258 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 20.4°C · 182 mm rain
- Buta in AprilDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 258 kmHigh 30.3°C · Low 22.5°C · 143 mm rain
- Bumba in AprilDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 355 kmHigh 30.5°C · Low 23.5°C · 143 mm rain
- Isiro in AprilDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 368 kmHigh 28.1°C · Low 20.6°C · 188 mm rain
- Kindu in AprilDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 393 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 22.6°C · 166 mm rain
- Lisala in AprilDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 447 kmHigh 30.1°C · Low 23.2°C · 142 mm rain
- Butembo in AprilDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 458 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 15.4°C · 180 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 Kisangani) is explained once on the Kisangani year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.