Climate averages 1991–2020

Weather in Kenya.

ClimaNote covers 37 cities in Kenya, starting with Nairobi, Kakamega and Mombasa. Open a city for charts and a table of all 12 months, or open a month for a side-by-side comparison of cities in the atlas.

Across these cities the yearly average high ranges from 20.5°C in Kitale to 34.0°C in Mandera (tied with Lodwar), and yearly rainfall from 227 mm in Garissa to 2,236 mm in Busia. The hottest city-month is February in Mandera, with an average high of 36.7°C, and the coolest is July in Limuru, at 17.8°C. By single month, the most rain falls in August in Eldoret, with 304 mm, and the least in June in Mandera, with under 1 mm (tied with August in Mandera).

February is the warmest month in 28 cities, March in 7 and September in 1 (in 1 other city two or more months tie); July is the coolest in 32 cities, November in 3 and December in 1 (in 1 other city two or more months tie). April is the wettest month in 20 cities, May in 7, November in 7, August in 2 and October in 1; February is the driest in 18 cities, July in 12 and September in 3 (in 4 other cities two or more months tie). Of these cities, 1 has a month with under 1 mm of rain and 1 has a month with more than 300 mm of rain; none has a month with an average high below 2.0°C.