Climate averages 1991–2020
Gitarama weather
in July.
A warm, very dry month: the 7th warmest and the driest of the year. Meets the pleasant-weather rule
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
July is a warm month in Gitarama: daytime highs average 23.1°C and nights cool to about 12.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the 7th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 6.5 mm of rain on roughly 2 days, which makes July a very dry month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 01 min on an average July day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Muhanga (8 km away). In July its highs average 23.4°C, about as warm as Gitarama, with 6.5 mm of rain.
Among the 5 cities listed in Rwanda, Gitarama ranks 5th of 5 for the warmest July highs and joint 2nd of 5 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 5 cities is 24.5°C; Gitarama is 1.4°C cooler than that mean.
From July to August, average highs rise by 0.9°C to 24.0°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 6.5 mm to 25 mm.
The annual picture
July 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, selected | 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
July in nearby cities
- Muhanga in JulyRwanda · 8 kmHigh 23.4°C · Low 14.5°C · 6.5 mm rain
- Kigali in JulyRwanda · 36 kmHigh 25.2°C · Low 15.1°C · 4.4 mm rain
- Musanze in JulyRwanda · 65 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 15.8°C · 19 mm rain
- Rutshuru in JulyDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 105 kmHigh 26.4°C · Low 15.3°C · 55 mm rain
- Nyagatare in JulyRwanda · 107 kmHigh 27.4°C · Low 16.0°C · 7.9 mm rain
- Bukavu in JulyDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 112 kmHigh 25.0°C · Low 15.4°C · 8.9 mm rain
- Gitega in JulyBurundi · 152 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 14.3°C · 1.0 mm rain
- Bujumbura in JulyBurundi · 152 kmHigh 26.2°C · Low 22.3°C · 3.8 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.