Climate averages 1991–2020
Miabi weather
in March.
A hot, wet month: the joint 5th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
March is a hot month in Miabi: daytime highs average 29.8°C and nights cool to about 20.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 179 mm of rain on roughly 24 days, which makes March a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 08 min on an average March day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Mbuji-Mayi (24 km away). In March its highs average 30.4°C, 0.6°C warmer than Miabi, with 179 mm of rain.
Among the 60 cities listed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Miabi ranks joint 25th of 60 for the warmest March highs and joint 45th of 60 for the driest March (rainfall, lowest first). The mean March high of those 60 cities is 29.1°C; Miabi is 0.7°C warmer than that mean.
From March to April, average highs fall by 0.1°C to 29.7°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 179 mm to 144 mm.
The annual picture
March 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
Miabi climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 28.9°C19.9°C | 19.9°C | 140 | 21.6 | 12.412 h |
| February | 29.8°C20.2°C | 20.2°C | 128 | 19.1 | 12.312 h |
| March, selected | 29.8°C20.3°C | 20.3°C | 179 | 23.5 | 12.112 h |
| April | 29.7°C20.3°C | 20.3°C | 144 | 20.0 | 12.012 h |
| May | 30.5°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 35 | 6.8 | 11.812 h |
| June | 31.2°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 5.9 | 1.1 | 11.812 h |
| July | 31.9°C18.6°C | 18.6°C | 2.3 | 0.5 | 11.812 h |
| August | 31.4°C19.8°C | 19.8°C | 32 | 6.5 | 11.912 h |
| September | 29.8°C20.1°C | 20.1°C | 109 | 17.1 | 12.112 h |
| October | 29.0°C19.8°C | 19.8°C | 159 | 24.0 | 12.212 h |
| November | 28.7°C19.7°C | 19.7°C | 183 | 25.6 | 12.412 h |
| December | 28.5°C19.7°C | 19.7°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
March in nearby cities
- Mbuji-Mayi in MarchDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 24 kmHigh 30.4°C · Low 21.1°C · 179 mm rain
- Gandajika in MarchDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 85 kmHigh 29.5°C · Low 20.1°C · 168 mm rain
- Mwene-Ditu in MarchDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 88 kmHigh 28.5°C · Low 19.3°C · 186 mm rain
- Kananga in MarchDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 114 kmHigh 29.3°C · Low 21.0°C · 176 mm rain
- Kabinda in MarchDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 121 kmHigh 28.7°C · Low 19.7°C · 201 mm rain
- Kanyama in MarchDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 168 kmHigh 28.4°C · Low 19.4°C · 190 mm rain
- Mweka in MarchDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 254 kmHigh 29.0°C · Low 21.5°C · 168 mm rain
- Tshikapa in MarchDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 287 kmHigh 30.6°C · Low 22.0°C · 163 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 Miabi) is explained once on the Miabi year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Mbuji-Mayi lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.