Climate averages 1991–2020
Kisangani weather
in January.
A hot, moderately wet month: the joint 2nd warmest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a hot month in Kisangani: daytime highs average 30.7°C and nights cool to about 22.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 70 mm of rain on roughly 13 days, which makes January a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 06 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Basoko (193 km away). In January its highs average 31.7°C, 1.0°C warmer than Kisangani, with 54 mm of rain.
Among the 60 cities listed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kisangani ranks 12th of 60 for the warmest January highs and 13th of 60 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 60 cities is 28.8°C; Kisangani is 2.0°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.8°C to 31.5°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 70 mm to 91 mm.
The annual picture
January 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, selected | 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 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Basoko in JanuaryDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 193 kmHigh 31.7°C · Low 23.2°C · 54 mm rain
- Babamba in JanuaryDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 258 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 20.0°C · 76 mm rain
- Buta in JanuaryDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 258 kmHigh 32.8°C · Low 21.7°C · 33 mm rain
- Bumba in JanuaryDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 355 kmHigh 32.3°C · Low 23.1°C · 41 mm rain
- Isiro in JanuaryDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 368 kmHigh 31.1°C · Low 19.9°C · 37 mm rain
- Kindu in JanuaryDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 393 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 22.1°C · 145 mm rain
- Lisala in JanuaryDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 447 kmHigh 31.9°C · Low 22.8°C · 45 mm rain
- Butembo in JanuaryDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 458 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 14.2°C · 53 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.