Climate averages 1991–2020

Kolwezi weather
in January.

A warm, very wet month: the coolest and the wettest of the year.

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

Average high 23.6°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 17.0°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 222 mm 27 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Kolwezi: daytime highs average 23.6°C and nights cool to about 17.0°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 222 mm of rain on roughly 27 days, which makes January a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 40 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Kambove (125 km away). In January its highs average 24.7°C, 1.2°C warmer than Kolwezi, with 261 mm of rain.

Among the 60 cities listed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kolwezi ranks 60th of 60 for the warmest January highs and 51st of 60 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 60 cities is 28.8°C; Kolwezi is 5.2°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.5°C to 24.1°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 222 mm to 186 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

Kolwezi climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Kolwezi, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	23.6°C17.0°C	17.0°C	222	27.4	12.713 h
February	24.1°C17.1°C	17.1°C	186	23.6	12.512 h
March	24.5°C17.0°C	17.0°C	164	24.5	12.212 h
April	25.0°C16.6°C	16.6°C	44	9.6	11.912 h
May	26.2°C15.7°C	15.7°C	2.7	0.8	11.612 h
June	25.5°C13.8°C	13.8°C	0.1	0.0	11.512 h
July	25.6°C13.3°C	13.3°C	0	0.0	11.612 h
August	27.9°C15.6°C	15.6°C	0.3	0.1	11.812 h
September	29.6°C17.7°C	17.7°C	9.6	2.0	12.012 h
October	28.4°C18.0°C	18.0°C	61	12.0	12.312 h
November	25.3°C17.2°C	17.2°C	158	24.2	12.613 h
December	23.9°C16.9°C	16.9°C	195	27.3	12.713 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 Kolwezi

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 Kolwezi) is explained once on the Kolwezi year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.