Climate averages 1991–2020
Gitarama weather
in April.
A warm, wet month: the 11th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a warm month in Gitarama: daytime highs average 22.2°C and nights cool to about 12.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 11th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 135 mm of rain on roughly 25 days, which makes April a wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 04 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Muhanga (8 km away). In April its highs average 22.4°C, about as warm as Gitarama, with 135 mm of rain.
Among the 5 cities listed in Rwanda, Gitarama ranks 5th of 5 for the warmest April highs and joint 2nd of 5 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 5 cities is 23.4°C; Gitarama is 1.1°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs fall by 0.3°C to 22.0°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 135 mm to 78 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
Gitarama climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 23.2°C12.4°C | 12.4°C | 134 | 20.0 | 12.212 h |
| February | 23.9°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 119 | 18.9 | 12.212 h |
| March | 23.4°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 121 | 20.9 | 12.112 h |
| April, selected | 22.2°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 135 | 24.5 | 12.112 h |
| May | 22.0°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 78 | 17.2 | 12.012 h |
| June | 22.4°C12.7°C | 12.7°C | 17 | 4.4 | 12.012 h |
| July | 23.1°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 6.5 | 1.7 | 12.012 h |
| August | 24.0°C13.4°C | 13.4°C | 25 | 5.2 | 12.012 h |
| September | 24.2°C12.9°C | 12.9°C | 54 | 10.6 | 12.112 h |
| October | 23.2°C12.6°C | 12.6°C | 115 | 18.8 | 12.212 h |
| November | 22.4°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 123 | 21.4 | 12.212 h |
| December | 22.6°C12.0°C | 12.0°C | 117 | 19.1 | 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
- Muhanga in AprilRwanda · 8 kmHigh 22.4°C · Low 13.7°C · 135 mm rain
- Kigali in AprilRwanda · 36 kmHigh 24.0°C · Low 15.0°C · 137 mm rain
- Musanze in AprilRwanda · 65 kmHigh 22.3°C · Low 15.1°C · 200 mm rain
- Rutshuru in AprilDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 105 kmHigh 25.6°C · Low 15.9°C · 217 mm rain
- Nyagatare in AprilRwanda · 107 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 16.3°C · 123 mm rain
- Bukavu in AprilDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 112 kmHigh 24.3°C · Low 16.2°C · 202 mm rain
- Gitega in AprilBurundi · 152 kmHigh 21.9°C · Low 14.6°C · 123 mm rain
- Bujumbura in AprilBurundi · 152 kmHigh 26.6°C · Low 22.5°C · 115 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 Gitarama) is explained once on the Gitarama year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Muhanga lies in the same rainfall cell, so its rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.