Climate averages 1991–2020
Gitarama weather
in August.
A warm, fairly dry month: the 2nd warmest and the 3rd driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
August is a warm month in Gitarama: daytime highs average 24.0°C and nights cool to about 13.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the 2nd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 25 mm of rain on roughly 5 days, which makes August a fairly dry month (the 3rd driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 03 min on an average August day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Muhanga (8 km away). In August its highs average 24.1°C, about as warm as Gitarama, with 25 mm of rain.
Among the 5 cities listed in Rwanda, Gitarama ranks 4th of 5 for the warmest August highs and joint 2nd of 5 for the driest August (rainfall, lowest first). The mean August high of those 5 cities is 25.1°C; Gitarama is 1.1°C cooler than that mean.
From August to September, average highs rise by 0.2°C to 24.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 25 mm to 54 mm.
The annual picture
August 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 | 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, selected | 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
August in nearby cities
- Muhanga in AugustRwanda · 8 kmHigh 24.1°C · Low 14.3°C · 25 mm rain
- Kigali in AugustRwanda · 36 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 15.4°C · 24 mm rain
- Musanze in AugustRwanda · 65 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 15.8°C · 67 mm rain
- Rutshuru in AugustDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 105 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 15.5°C · 160 mm rain
- Nyagatare in AugustRwanda · 107 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 16.4°C · 36 mm rain
- Bukavu in AugustDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 112 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 16.0°C · 26 mm rain
- Gitega in AugustBurundi · 152 kmHigh 24.9°C · Low 15.5°C · 5.9 mm rain
- Bujumbura in AugustBurundi · 152 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 22.7°C · 3.5 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.