Climate averages 1991–2020

Tshilenge weather
in January.

A warm, very wet month: the coolest and the 11th driest of the year.

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

Average high 25.9°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 18.2°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 274 mm 29 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 13 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a warm month in Tshilenge: daytime highs average 25.9°C and nights cool to about 18.2°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.

Expect about 274 mm of rain on roughly 29 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 41 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Mwene (128 km away). In January its highs average 27.3°C, 1.4°C warmer than Tshilenge, with 223 mm of rain.

Among the 60 cities listed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tshilenge ranks joint 51st of 60 for the warmest January highs and 58th of 60 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 60 cities is 28.8°C; Tshilenge is 2.8°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.6°C to 26.6°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 274 mm to 245 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

Tshilenge climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Tshilenge, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	25.9°C18.2°C	18.2°C	274	28.8	12.713 h
February	26.6°C18.3°C	18.3°C	245	25.3	12.512 h
March	26.9°C18.2°C	18.2°C	261	28.1	12.212 h
April	27.9°C18.1°C	18.1°C	103	14.9	11.912 h
May	29.5°C17.6°C	17.6°C	2.9	0.9	11.612 h
June	29.1°C15.8°C	15.8°C	0.2	0.1	11.511 h
July	29.4°C15.5°C	15.5°C	0	0.0	11.512 h
August	31.9°C17.8°C	17.8°C	1.1	0.3	11.812 h
September	32.3°C19.3°C	19.3°C	24	5.3	12.012 h
October	29.9°C18.9°C	18.9°C	112	19.7	12.312 h
November	27.2°C18.3°C	18.3°C	233	27.3	12.613 h
December	26.0°C18.2°C	18.2°C	286	29.2	12.813 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 Tshilenge

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