Climate averages 1991–2020
Mbuji-Mayi weather
in December.
A hot, wet month: the coolest and the 10th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
December is a hot month in Mbuji-Mayi: daytime highs average 29.1°C and nights cool to about 20.7°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 170 mm of rain on roughly 24 days, which makes December a wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 28 min on an average December day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Miabi (24 km away). In December its highs average 28.5°C, 0.6°C cooler than Mbuji-Mayi, with 170 mm of rain.
Among the 60 cities listed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mbuji-Mayi ranks joint 19th of 60 for the warmest December highs and joint 28th of 60 for the driest December (rainfall, lowest first). The mean December high of those 60 cities is 28.1°C; Mbuji-Mayi is 1.1°C warmer than that mean.
From December to January, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 29.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 170 mm to 140 mm.
The annual picture
December 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
Mbuji-Mayi climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29.6°C20.8°C | 20.8°C | 140 | 21.6 | 12.412 h |
| February | 30.5°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 128 | 19.1 | 12.312 h |
| March | 30.4°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 179 | 23.5 | 12.112 h |
| April | 30.4°C21.1°C | 21.1°C | 144 | 20.0 | 12.012 h |
| May | 31.6°C20.8°C | 20.8°C | 35 | 6.8 | 11.812 h |
| June | 32.6°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 5.9 | 1.1 | 11.812 h |
| July | 33.3°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 2.3 | 0.5 | 11.812 h |
| August | 32.6°C20.5°C | 20.5°C | 32 | 6.5 | 11.912 h |
| September | 30.7°C20.8°C | 20.8°C | 109 | 17.1 | 12.112 h |
| October | 29.6°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 159 | 24.0 | 12.212 h |
| November | 29.3°C20.6°C | 20.6°C | 183 | 25.6 | 12.412 h |
| December, selected | 29.1°C20.7°C | 20.7°C | 170 | 23.9 | 12.512 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
December in nearby cities
- Miabi in DecemberDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 24 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 19.7°C · 170 mm rain
- Gandajika in DecemberDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 79 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 19.6°C · 177 mm rain
- Mwene-Ditu in DecemberDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 98 kmHigh 27.4°C · Low 18.8°C · 192 mm rain
- Kabinda in DecemberDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 99 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 19.2°C · 218 mm rain
- Kananga in DecemberDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 132 kmHigh 28.3°C · Low 20.5°C · 159 mm rain
- Kanyama in DecemberDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 167 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 19.0°C · 201 mm rain
- Mweka in DecemberDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 266 kmHigh 28.0°C · Low 21.0°C · 170 mm rain
- Lodja in DecemberDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 291 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 21.4°C · 132 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 Mbuji-Mayi) is explained once on the Mbuji-Mayi year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Miabi lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.