Climate averages 1991–2020
Kampala weather
in July.
A warm, moderately wet month: the coolest and the driest of the year.
Long-term climate patterns, not a forecast for a particular trip.
July is a warm month in Kampala: daytime highs average 23.4°C and nights cool to about 17.5°C. By daytime temperature it is the coolest month of the year.
Expect about 83 mm of rain on roughly 18 days, which makes July a moderately wet month (the driest month of the year). Daylight, from sunrise to sunset, lasts about 12 h 08 min on an average July day.
The nearest other city in this atlas is Nansana (8 km away). In July its highs average 23.9°C, about as warm as Kampala, with 83 mm of rain.
Among the 21 cities listed in Uganda, Kampala ranks joint 20th of 21 for the warmest July highs and joint 8th of 21 for the driest July (rainfall, lowest first). The mean July high of those 21 cities is 25.0°C; Kampala is 1.6°C cooler than that mean.
From July to August, average highs rise by 0.4°C to 23.8°C, and monthly rainfall rises from 83 mm to 109 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
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 | 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, selected | 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
July in nearby cities
- Nansana in JulyUganda · 8 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 16.2°C · 83 mm rain
- Kyengera in JulyUganda · 9 kmHigh 23.9°C · Low 17.4°C · 83 mm rain
- Kira in JulyUganda · 11 kmHigh 24.2°C · Low 16.6°C · 133 mm rain
- Kajansi in JulyUganda · 12 kmHigh 23.8°C · Low 18.3°C · 83 mm rain
- Mukono in JulyUganda · 20 kmHigh 24.2°C · Low 16.5°C · 118 mm rain
- Katabi in JulyUganda · 29 kmHigh 23.4°C · Low 19.0°C · 78 mm rain
- Lugazi in JulyUganda · 40 kmHigh 24.2°C · Low 16.5°C · 132 mm rain
- Mityana in JulyUganda · 63 kmHigh 24.7°C · Low 16.6°C · 72 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.