Climate averages 1991–2020
Gitarama weather
in February.
A warm, wet month: the 3rd warmest and the 8th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
February is a warm month in Gitarama: daytime highs average 23.9°C and nights cool to about 12.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the 3rd warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 119 mm of rain on roughly 19 days, which makes February a wet month (the 8th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 11 min on an average February day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Muhanga (8 km away). In February its highs average 23.7°C, about as warm as Gitarama, with 119 mm of rain.
Among the 5 cities listed in Rwanda, Gitarama ranks 3rd of 5 for the warmest February highs and joint 3rd of 5 for the driest February (rainfall, lowest first). The mean February high of those 5 cities is 24.9°C; Gitarama is 1.0°C cooler than that mean.
From February to March, average highs fall by 0.4°C to 23.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 119 mm to 121 mm.
The annual picture
February 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, selected | 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 | 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
February in nearby cities
- Muhanga in FebruaryRwanda · 8 kmHigh 23.7°C · Low 13.0°C · 119 mm rain
- Kigali in FebruaryRwanda · 36 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 14.8°C · 79 mm rain
- Musanze in FebruaryRwanda · 65 kmHigh 23.5°C · Low 15.7°C · 168 mm rain
- Rutshuru in FebruaryDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 105 kmHigh 26.9°C · Low 15.7°C · 125 mm rain
- Nyagatare in FebruaryRwanda · 107 kmHigh 27.8°C · Low 16.6°C · 51 mm rain
- Bukavu in FebruaryDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 112 kmHigh 24.7°C · Low 16.2°C · 229 mm rain
- Gitega in FebruaryBurundi · 152 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 14.9°C · 77 mm rain
- Bujumbura in FebruaryBurundi · 152 kmHigh 27.5°C · Low 22.6°C · 92 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.