Climate averages 1991–2020
Gitarama weather
in January.
A warm, wet month: the joint 5th warmest and the 11th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
January is a warm month in Gitarama: daytime highs average 23.2°C and nights cool to about 12.4°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 134 mm of rain on roughly 20 days, which makes January a wet month (the 11th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 13 min on an average January day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Muhanga (8 km away). In January its highs average 23.2°C, about as warm as Gitarama, with 134 mm of rain.
Among the 5 cities listed in Rwanda, Gitarama ranks joint 3rd of 5 for the warmest January highs and joint 3rd of 5 for the driest January (rainfall, lowest first). The mean January high of those 5 cities is 24.2°C; Gitarama is 1.0°C cooler than that mean.
From January to February, average highs rise by 0.6°C to 23.9°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 134 mm to 119 mm.
The annual picture
January 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, selected | 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 | 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
January in nearby cities
- Muhanga in JanuaryRwanda · 8 kmHigh 23.2°C · Low 12.7°C · 134 mm rain
- Kigali in JanuaryRwanda · 36 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 14.5°C · 77 mm rain
- Musanze in JanuaryRwanda · 65 kmHigh 22.9°C · Low 15.3°C · 186 mm rain
- Rutshuru in JanuaryDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 105 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 15.3°C · 121 mm rain
- Nyagatare in JanuaryRwanda · 107 kmHigh 26.8°C · Low 16.0°C · 49 mm rain
- Bukavu in JanuaryDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 112 kmHigh 24.2°C · Low 16.1°C · 302 mm rain
- Gitega in JanuaryBurundi · 152 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 14.7°C · 85 mm rain
- Bujumbura in JanuaryBurundi · 152 kmHigh 27.0°C · Low 22.2°C · 147 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.