Climate averages 1991–2020

Lodja weather
in January.

A hot, wet month: the joint 6th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.

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

Average high 29.8°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 21.6°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 112 mm 18 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Lodja: daytime highs average 29.8°C and nights cool to about 21.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 6th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 112 mm of rain on roughly 18 days, which makes January a wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 18 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Kindu (266 km away). In January its highs average 29.3°C, 0.5°C cooler than Lodja, with 145 mm of rain.

Among the 60 cities listed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Lodja ranks 18th of 60 for the warmest January highs and 19th of 60 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 60 cities is 28.8°C; Lodja is 1.0°C warmer than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.7°C to 30.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 112 mm to 104 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

Lodja climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Lodja, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	29.8°C21.6°C	21.6°C	112	18.3	12.312 h
February	30.5°C21.9°C	21.9°C	104	17.1	12.212 h
March	30.2°C21.9°C	21.9°C	131	20.6	12.112 h
April	29.4°C22.0°C	22.0°C	140	21.6	12.012 h
May	29.8°C21.9°C	21.9°C	85	16.2	12.012 h
June	30.7°C21.1°C	21.1°C	29	6.6	11.912 h
July	31.6°C20.9°C	20.9°C	24	5.2	11.912 h
August	30.5°C21.4°C	21.4°C	73	14.8	12.012 h
September	29.7°C21.3°C	21.3°C	117	21.3	12.112 h
October	29.4°C21.3°C	21.3°C	146	24.3	12.212 h
November	28.9°C21.3°C	21.3°C	148	23.6	12.312 h
December	28.9°C21.4°C	21.4°C	132	21.4	12.312 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 Lodja

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