Climate averages 1991–2020
Kisangani weather
in March.
A hot, wet month: the joint 2nd warmest and the joint 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a hot month in Kisangani: daytime highs average 30.7°C and nights cool to about 22.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 161 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes March 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 March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Basoko (193 km away). In March its highs average 31.4°C, 0.7°C warmer than Kisangani, with 134 mm of rain.
Among the 60 cities listed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kisangani ranks joint 12th of 60 for the warmest March highs and 32nd of 60 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 60 cities is 29.1°C; Kisangani is 1.6°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 1.0°C to 29.7°C, and monthly rainfall stays at 161 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
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, selected | 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
March in nearby cities
- Basoko in MarchDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 193 kmHigh 31.4°C · Low 23.6°C · 134 mm rain
- Babamba in MarchDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 258 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 20.4°C · 153 mm rain
- Buta in MarchDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 258 kmHigh 31.8°C · Low 22.7°C · 129 mm rain
- Bumba in MarchDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 355 kmHigh 31.6°C · Low 23.6°C · 136 mm rain
- Isiro in MarchDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 368 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 20.7°C · 146 mm rain
- Kindu in MarchDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 393 kmHigh 29.7°C · Low 22.5°C · 162 mm rain
- Lisala in MarchDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 447 kmHigh 31.2°C · Low 23.3°C · 136 mm rain
- Butembo in MarchDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 458 kmHigh 24.4°C · Low 15.0°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 Kisangani) is explained once on the Kisangani year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.