Climate averages 1991–2020
Mbuji-Mayi weather
in January.
A hot, wet month: the joint 9th warmest and the 7th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a hot month in Mbuji-Mayi: daytime highs average 29.6°C and nights cool to about 20.8°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 9th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 140 mm of rain on roughly 22 days, which makes January a wet month (the 7th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 26 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Miabi (24 km away). In January its highs average 28.9°C, 0.6°C cooler than Mbuji-Mayi, with 140 mm of rain.
Among the 60 cities listed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mbuji-Mayi ranks joint 20th of 60 for the warmest January highs and joint 30th of 60 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 60 cities is 28.8°C; Mbuji-Mayi is 0.8°C warmer than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.9°C to 30.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 140 mm to 128 mm.
The annual picture
January 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, selected | 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 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Miabi in JanuaryDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 24 kmHigh 28.9°C · Low 19.9°C · 140 mm rain
- Gandajika in JanuaryDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 79 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 19.8°C · 154 mm rain
- Mwene-Ditu in JanuaryDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 98 kmHigh 27.7°C · Low 19.0°C · 179 mm rain
- Kabinda in JanuaryDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 99 kmHigh 27.9°C · Low 19.4°C · 194 mm rain
- Kananga in JanuaryDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 132 kmHigh 28.8°C · Low 20.6°C · 131 mm rain
- Kanyama in JanuaryDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 167 kmHigh 27.4°C · Low 19.1°C · 183 mm rain
- Mweka in JanuaryDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 266 kmHigh 28.6°C · Low 21.2°C · 143 mm rain
- Lodja in JanuaryDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 291 kmHigh 29.8°C · Low 21.6°C · 112 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.