Climate averages 1991–2020
Gitarama weather
in September.
A warm, moderately wet month: the warmest and the 4th driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
September is a warm month in Gitarama: daytime highs average 24.2°C and nights cool to about 12.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the warmest month of the year.
Expect about 54 mm of rain on roughly 11 days, which makes September a moderately wet month (the 4th driest of the 12 months). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 06 min on an average September day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Muhanga (8 km away). In September its highs average 24.2°C, about as warm as Gitarama, with 54 mm of rain.
Among the 5 cities listed in Rwanda, Gitarama ranks joint 3rd of 5 for the warmest September highs and joint 1st of 5 for the driest September (rainfall, lowest first). The mean September high of those 5 cities is 24.9°C; Gitarama is 0.7°C cooler than that mean.
From September to October, average highs fall by 0.9°C to 23.2°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 54 mm to 115 mm.
The annual picture
September 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, selected | 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
September in nearby cities
- Muhanga in SeptemberRwanda · 8 kmHigh 24.2°C · Low 13.3°C · 54 mm rain
- Kigali in SeptemberRwanda · 36 kmHigh 25.7°C · Low 15.0°C · 54 mm rain
- Musanze in SeptemberRwanda · 65 kmHigh 23.4°C · Low 15.5°C · 114 mm rain
- Rutshuru in SeptemberDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 105 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 15.2°C · 230 mm rain
- Nyagatare in SeptemberRwanda · 107 kmHigh 27.1°C · Low 16.0°C · 65 mm rain
- Bukavu in SeptemberDemocratic Republic of the Congo · 112 kmHigh 25.9°C · Low 16.5°C · 85 mm rain
- Gitega in SeptemberBurundi · 152 kmHigh 25.5°C · Low 16.1°C · 16 mm rain
- Bujumbura in SeptemberBurundi · 152 kmHigh 27.7°C · Low 23.2°C · 6.8 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.