Climate averages 1991–2020
Gitarama weather
in October.
A warm, wet month: the joint 5th warmest and the 6th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
October is a warm month in Gitarama: daytime highs average 23.2°C and nights cool to about 12.6°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 5th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 115 mm of rain on roughly 19 days, which makes October a wet month (the 6th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 09 min on an average October day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Muhanga (8 km away). In October its highs average 23.3°C, about as warm as Gitarama, with 115 mm of rain.
Among the 5 cities listed in Rwanda, Gitarama ranks 4th of 5 for the warmest October highs and joint 2nd of 5 for the driest October (rainfall, lowest first). The mean October high of those 5 cities is 24.1°C; Gitarama is 0.9°C cooler than that mean.
From October to November, average highs fall by 0.9°C to 22.4°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 115 mm to 123 mm.
The annual picture
October 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 | 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, selected | 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
October in nearby cities
- Muhanga in OctoberRwanda · 8 kmHigh 23.3°C · Low 12.9°C · 115 mm rain
- Kigali in OctoberRwanda · 36 kmHigh 24.9°C · Low 14.7°C · 117 mm rain
- Musanze in OctoberRwanda · 65 kmHigh 22.8°C · Low 15.1°C · 201 mm rain
- Rutshuru in OctoberDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 105 kmHigh 25.2°C · Low 15.1°C · 305 mm rain
- Nyagatare in OctoberRwanda · 107 kmHigh 26.3°C · Low 15.8°C · 108 mm rain
- Bukavu in OctoberDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 112 kmHigh 24.7°C · Low 16.4°C · 239 mm rain
- Gitega in OctoberBurundi · 152 kmHigh 24.2°C · Low 15.6°C · 67 mm rain
- Bujumbura in OctoberBurundi · 152 kmHigh 27.3°C · Low 22.9°C · 28 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.