Climate averages 1991–2020
Kitengela weather
in April.
A warm, wet month: the joint 5th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a warm month in Kitengela: daytime highs average 24.5°C and nights cool to about 16.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 132 mm of rain on roughly 21 days, which makes April a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 05 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Mlolongo (9 km away). In April its highs average 24.4°C, about as warm as Kitengela, with 132 mm of rain.
Among the 37 cities listed in Kenya, Kitengela ranks 21st of 37 for the warmest April highs and joint 18th of 37 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 37 cities is 26.3°C; Kitengela is 1.8°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs fall by 1.0°C to 23.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 132 mm to 80 mm.
The annual picture
April 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
Kitengela climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 25.4°C15.1°C | 15.1°C | 41 | 7.7 | 12.212 h |
| February | 26.7°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 36 | 6.5 | 12.212 h |
| March | 26.3°C16.3°C | 16.3°C | 72 | 13.3 | 12.112 h |
| April, selected | 24.5°C16.4°C | 16.4°C | 132 | 21.3 | 12.112 h |
| May | 23.4°C15.5°C | 15.5°C | 80 | 15.6 | 12.112 h |
| June | 22.5°C14.1°C | 14.1°C | 31 | 6.7 | 12.012 h |
| July | 22.0°C13.0°C | 13.0°C | 11 | 2.7 | 12.012 h |
| August | 22.6°C13.3°C | 13.3°C | 15 | 3.0 | 12.112 h |
| September | 24.5°C13.9°C | 13.9°C | 11 | 2.2 | 12.112 h |
| October | 25.3°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 37 | 8.6 | 12.112 h |
| November | 23.4°C15.6°C | 15.6°C | 114 | 21.3 | 12.212 h |
| December | 23.7°C15.2°C | 15.2°C | 69 | 15.1 | 12.212 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
April in nearby cities
- Mlolongo in AprilKenya · 9 kmHigh 24.4°C · Low 16.1°C · 132 mm rain
- Ongata Rongai in AprilKenya · 24 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 15.7°C · 100 mm rain
- Nairobi in AprilKenya · 27 kmHigh 24.4°C · Low 15.8°C · 114 mm rain
- Ngong in AprilKenya · 35 kmHigh 23.6°C · Low 14.9°C · 114 mm rain
- Ruiru in AprilKenya · 37 kmHigh 24.3°C · Low 15.7°C · 120 mm rain
- Karuri (Kiambu County), Kenya in AprilKenya · 40 kmHigh 22.6°C · Low 14.3°C · 114 mm rain
- Kikuyu in AprilKenya · 42 kmHigh 22.3°C · Low 13.9°C · 114 mm rain
- Thika in AprilKenya · 51 kmHigh 24.4°C · Low 15.9°C · 179 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 Kitengela) is explained once on the Kitengela year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Mlolongo lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.