Climate averages 1991–2020

Mbuji-Mayi weather
in February.

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

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

Average high 30.5°C Daytime mean, February
Average low 21.1°C Night-time mean, February
Rainfall 128 mm 19 days with ≥1 mm
Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day
Every month in Mbuji-Mayi · average highYear overview

February is a hot month in Mbuji-Mayi: daytime highs average 30.5°C and nights cool to about 21.1°C. By daytime temperature it is the 6th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 128 mm of rain on roughly 19 days, which makes February a wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 18 min on an average February day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Miabi (24 km away). In February its highs average 29.8°C, 0.6°C cooler than Mbuji-Mayi, with 128 mm of rain.

Among the 60 cities listed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mbuji-Mayi ranks joint 17th of 60 for the warmest February highs and joint 30th of 60 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 60 cities is 29.4°C; Mbuji-Mayi is 1.1°C warmer than that mean.

From February to March, average highs fall by 0.1°C to 30.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 128 mm to 179 mm.

The annual picture

February in context

30-year average
Average highAverage low°C
Average daily high and low temperatures by month The same values are available in the monthly table below. Lines show mean daily maxima and minima, not a forecast interval. 152025303540 JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Monthly rainfall

Average total · mm
Average monthly rainfall totalsEach bar is a mean monthly total over 1991–2020. Full numbers are in the table. JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec 2000

Averages 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

1991–2020
Monthly climate averages for Mbuji-Mayi, 1991–2020
MonthAverage highHigh / lowAverage lowRainfall mm/monthRain days ≥1 mm/dayDaylight hours/dayDay­light h/day
January 29.6°C20.8°C20.8°C14021.612.412 h
February, selected 30.5°C21.1°C21.1°C12819.112.312 h
March 30.4°C21.1°C21.1°C17923.512.112 h
April 30.4°C21.1°C21.1°C14420.012.012 h
May 31.6°C20.8°C20.8°C356.811.812 h
June 32.6°C19.1°C19.1°C5.91.111.812 h
July 33.3°C19.0°C19.0°C2.30.511.812 h
August 32.6°C20.5°C20.5°C326.511.912 h
September 30.7°C20.8°C20.8°C10917.112.112 h
October 29.6°C20.7°C20.7°C15924.012.212 h
November 29.3°C20.6°C20.6°C18325.612.412 h
December 29.1°C20.7°C20.7°C17023.912.512 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

February in nearby cities

Distance from Mbuji-Mayi

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 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.