Climate averages 1991–2020
Gitarama weather
in May.
A warm, moderately wet month: the coolest and the 5th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
May is a warm month in Gitarama: daytime highs average 22.0°C and nights cool to about 12.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 78 mm of rain on roughly 17 days, which makes May a moderately wet month (the 5th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 01 min on an average May day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Muhanga (8 km away). In May its highs average 22.2°C, about as warm as Gitarama, with 78 mm of rain.
Among the 5 cities listed in Rwanda, Gitarama ranks 5th of 5 for the warmest May highs and joint 1st of 5 for the driest May (rainfall, lowest first). The mean May high of those 5 cities is 23.2°C; Gitarama is 1.2°C cooler than that mean.
From May to June, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 22.4°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 78 mm to 17 mm.
The annual picture
May 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, selected | 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
May in nearby cities
- Muhanga in MayRwanda · 8 kmHigh 22.2°C · Low 14.2°C · 78 mm rain
- Kigali in MayRwanda · 36 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 14.9°C · 83 mm rain
- Musanze in MayRwanda · 65 kmHigh 22.1°C · Low 15.4°C · 118 mm rain
- Rutshuru in MayDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 105 kmHigh 25.6°C · Low 16.1°C · 139 mm rain
- Nyagatare in MayRwanda · 107 kmHigh 25.8°C · Low 16.2°C · 79 mm rain
- Bukavu in MayDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 112 kmHigh 24.3°C · Low 16.0°C · 93 mm rain
- Gitega in MayBurundi · 152 kmHigh 22.1°C · Low 14.6°C · 45 mm rain
- Bujumbura in MayBurundi · 152 kmHigh 26.7°C · Low 22.5°C · 53 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.