Climate averages 1991–2020

Dolisie weather
in January.

A hot, very wet month: the 5th warmest and the 10th driest of the year.

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

Average high 28.9°C Daytime mean, January

Average low 22.3°C Night-time mean, January

Rainfall 219 mm 27 days with ≥1 mm

Daylight 12 h Sunrise to sunset, per day

January is a hot month in Dolisie: daytime highs average 28.9°C and nights cool to about 22.3°C. By daytime temperature it is the 5th warmest of the 12 months.

Expect about 219 mm of rain on roughly 27 days, which makes January a very wet month (the 10th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 20 min on an average January day.

The nearest other city in this atlas is Nkayi (69 km away). In January its highs average 30.2°C, 1.3°C warmer than Dolisie, with 135 mm of rain.

Among the 4 cities listed in the Republic of the Congo, Dolisie ranks 3rd of 4 for the warmest January highs and 4th of 4 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 4 cities is 29.2°C; Dolisie is 0.3°C cooler than that mean.

From January to February, average highs rise by 0.6°C to 29.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 219 mm to 183 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

Dolisie climate table

1991–2020

Monthly climate averages for Dolisie, 1991–2020
Month	Average highHigh / low	Average low	Rainfall mm/month	Rain days ≥1 mm/day	Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day
January, selected	28.9°C22.3°C	22.3°C	219	26.8	12.312 h
February	29.5°C22.5°C	22.5°C	183	23.5	12.212 h
March	29.8°C22.8°C	22.8°C	177	24.5	12.112 h
April	29.4°C22.8°C	22.8°C	180	23.6	12.012 h
May	28.8°C22.3°C	22.3°C	94	17.5	11.912 h
June	27.5°C19.9°C	19.9°C	5.2	1.4	11.912 h
July	27.0°C18.5°C	18.5°C	1.6	0.3	11.912 h
August	27.0°C19.0°C	19.0°C	4.6	1.2	12.012 h
September	27.9°C20.3°C	20.3°C	18	5.1	12.112 h
October	29.1°C21.9°C	21.9°C	122	21.0	12.212 h
November	28.8°C22.2°C	22.2°C	245	27.2	12.312 h
December	28.6°C22.2°C	22.2°C	258	28.1	12.412 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 Dolisie

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