Climate averages 1991–2020
Kampala weather
in April.
A warm, very wet month: the joint 8th warmest and the wettest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
April is a warm month in Kampala: daytime highs average 23.7°C and nights cool to about 18.9°C. By daytime temperature it is the joint 8th warmest of the 12 months.
Expect about 220 mm of rain on roughly 28 days, which makes April a very wet month (the wettest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 07 min on an average April day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Nansana (8 km away). In April its highs average 24.2°C, about as warm as Kampala, with 220 mm of rain.
Among the 21 cities listed in Uganda, Kampala ranks 21st of 21 for the warmest April highs and joint 12th of 21 for the driest April (rainfall, lowest first). The mean April high of those 21 cities is 25.6°C; Kampala is 1.9°C cooler than that mean.
From April to May, average highs fall by 0.2°C to 23.5°C, and monthly rainfall falls from 220 mm to 188 mm.
The annual picture
April 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
Kampala climate table
| Month | Average highHigh / low | Average low | Rainfall mm/month | Rain days ≥1 mm/day | Daylight hours/dayDaylight h/day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 24.9°C18.4°C | 18.4°C | 108 | 19.6 | 12.112 h |
| February | 25.5°C19.0°C | 19.0°C | 104 | 18.6 | 12.112 h |
| March | 24.8°C19.1°C | 19.1°C | 165 | 25.1 | 12.112 h |
| April, selected | 23.7°C18.9°C | 18.9°C | 220 | 27.7 | 12.112 h |
| May | 23.5°C18.5°C | 18.5°C | 188 | 27.8 | 12.112 h |
| June | 23.5°C17.9°C | 17.9°C | 115 | 22.5 | 12.112 h |
| July | 23.4°C17.5°C | 17.5°C | 83 | 17.7 | 12.112 h |
| August | 23.8°C17.6°C | 17.6°C | 109 | 22.7 | 12.112 h |
| September | 24.2°C18.0°C | 18.0°C | 121 | 25.0 | 12.112 h |
| October | 23.9°C18.2°C | 18.2°C | 154 | 27.7 | 12.112 h |
| November | 23.7°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 179 | 26.8 | 12.112 h |
| December | 24.1°C18.1°C | 18.1°C | 133 | 23.9 | 12.112 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
April in nearby cities
- Nansana in AprilUganda · 8 kmHigh 24.2°C · Low 17.9°C · 220 mm rain
- Kyengera in AprilUganda · 9 kmHigh 24.2°C · Low 18.9°C · 220 mm rain
- Kira in AprilUganda · 11 kmHigh 24.4°C · Low 18.4°C · 235 mm rain
- Kajansi in AprilUganda · 12 kmHigh 24.1°C · Low 19.7°C · 220 mm rain
- Mukono in AprilUganda · 20 kmHigh 24.6°C · Low 18.3°C · 244 mm rain
- Katabi in AprilUganda · 29 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 20.1°C · 250 mm rain
- Lugazi in AprilUganda · 40 kmHigh 24.7°C · Low 18.3°C · 266 mm rain
- Mityana in AprilUganda · 63 kmHigh 24.7°C · Low 17.8°C · 183 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 Kampala) is explained once on the Kampala year overview and on the Sources, method and limits page.
Nansana, Kyengera and Kajansi lie in the same rainfall cell, so their rainfall figures are identical to these; temperatures differ because they come from smaller 0.1° cells.