Climate averages 1991–2020

Mwene weather
in January.

A warm, very wet month: the 11th warmest and the wettest of the year.

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

Average high 27.3°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 19.2°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 223 mm 26 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Mwene: daytime highs average 27.3°C and nights cool to about 19.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 223 mm of rain on roughly 26 days, which makes January a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 37 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Tshilenge (128 km away). In January its highs average 25.9°C, 1.4°C cooler than Mwene, with 274 mm of rain.

Among the 60 cities listed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mwene ranks joint 47th of 60 for the warmest January highs and 52nd of 60 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 60 cities is 28.8°C; Mwene is 1.4°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.6°C to 27.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 223 mm to 205 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

Mwene climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Mwene, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	27.3°C19.2°C	19.2°C	223	26.2	12.613 h
February	27.9°C19.3°C	19.3°C	205	23.2	12.412 h
March	28.0°C19.4°C	19.4°C	183	24.3	12.212 h
April	28.9°C19.1°C	19.1°C	79	13.2	11.912 h
May	31.6°C18.7°C	18.7°C	3.6	0.8	11.712 h
June	31.7°C17.2°C	17.2°C	0.2	0.1	11.612 h
July	31.9°C16.8°C	16.8°C	0.1	0.0	11.612 h
August	33.5°C18.7°C	18.7°C	2.2	0.5	11.812 h
September	33.1°C20.3°C	20.3°C	27	5.7	12.012 h
October	30.5°C19.9°C	19.9°C	102	17.7	12.312 h
November	28.1°C19.3°C	19.3°C	167	23.9	12.613 h
December	27.2°C19.1°C	19.1°C	215	26.9	12.713 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 Mwene

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