Bumba climate

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Bumba is warmest in February, with average highs of 33 °C, and coldest in August, when nights average 22 °C. October is the wettest month (178 mm) and January the driest (41 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Bumba averages 1,402 mm of rain and 363 days above 25 °C.

Democratic Republic of the Congo · population 154,586 · 1991–2020 normals

Temperature below 0 °C to above 30 °C Rain band height is that month’s share of the wettest month

Warmest month February 33 °C
Coldest month August 22 °C
Driest month January 41 mm
Wettest month October 178 mm
Least cloud January 69 % cloud
Hottest on record February 39 °C
Coldest on record January 18 °C

What to expectBumba through the year

Bumba changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 29 and 33 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 363 days a year reach 25 °C, 181 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C, in February.

Rain is strongly seasonal. October averages 178 mm against 41 mm in January — 4.4 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	32.3 °C	41 mm	69 %
February	32.7 °C	66 mm	72 %
March	31.6 °C	129 mm	79 %
April	30.6 °C	136 mm	81 %
May	30.1 °C	124 mm	77 %
June	29.5 °C	105 mm	76 %
July	29.1 °C	118 mm	79 %
August	28.9 °C	151 mm	81 %
September	29.1 °C	154 mm	81 %
October	28.8 °C	178 mm	84 %
November	29.1 °C	141 mm	81 %
December	30.5 °C	58 mm	70 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	32.3 °C	23.0 °C	26.9 °C	37.6 °C	18.3 °C	31	26
February	32.7 °C	23.5 °C	27.3 °C	39.4 °C	19.4 °C	28	24
March	31.6 °C	23.6 °C	26.9 °C	38.4 °C	20.9 °C	31	24
April	30.6 °C	23.5 °C	26.4 °C	36.8 °C	20.7 °C	30	19
May	30.1 °C	23.3 °C	26.1 °C	34.9 °C	21.4 °C	31	17
June	29.5 °C	22.7 °C	25.5 °C	34.1 °C	20.2 °C	30	12
July	29.1 °C	22.3 °C	25.1 °C	34.5 °C	20.2 °C	31	8
August	28.9 °C	22.2 °C	24.9 °C	32.4 °C	20.0 °C	31	7
September	29.1 °C	22.4 °C	25.0 °C	33.1 °C	20.4 °C	30	8
October	28.8 °C	22.4 °C	25.0 °C	33.4 °C	19.7 °C	31	8
November	29.1 °C	22.5 °C	25.1 °C	34.8 °C	20.6 °C	30	9
December	30.5 °C	22.8 °C	26.0 °C	34.9 °C	19.0 °C	31	19

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	41 mm	8	12 h/day	69 %	74 %	9.1 km/h
February	66 mm	11	12 h/day	72 %	75 %	9.9 km/h
March	129 mm	18	12 h/day	79 %	82 %	9.8 km/h
April	136 mm	20	12 h/day	81 %	85 %	8.7 km/h
May	124 mm	20	12 h/day	77 %	87 %	7.1 km/h
June	105 mm	19	12 h/day	76 %	87 %	7.0 km/h
July	118 mm	21	12 h/day	79 %	87 %	7.3 km/h
August	151 mm	23	12 h/day	81 %	88 %	7.6 km/h
September	154 mm	24	12 h/day	81 %	88 %	7.8 km/h
October	178 mm	25	12 h/day	84 %	89 %	7.3 km/h
November	141 mm	22	12 h/day	81 %	89 %	7.3 km/h
December	58 mm	11	12 h/day	70 %	83 %	8.2 km/h

How Bumba compares

The same four figures for nearby destinations, so the numbers above have something to be read against. Summer high is the warmest month's average high; winter low is the coldest month's average low.

Destination	Summer high	Winter low	Rain per year	Days above 25 °C
Bumba	33 °C	22 °C	1,402 mm	363
Gemena · Democratic Republic of the Congo	33 °C	21 °C	1,375 mm	363
Kisangani · Democratic Republic of the Congo	32 °C	22 °C	1,576 mm	362
Bangui · Central African Republic	35 °C	22 °C	1,180 mm	364
Bégoua · Central African Republic	35 °C	22 °C	1,324 mm	363
Mbandaka · Democratic Republic of the Congo	31 °C	23 °C	1,663 mm	364
Isiro · Democratic Republic of the Congo	32 °C	19 °C	1,679 mm	335

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Bumba.

QuestionsCommon questions about Bumba’s climate

When is the best time to visit Bumba?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. August, September, October sit closest to 20 °C on average, February is the warmest month and January the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Bumba get?

In February, the warmest month, daily highs average 33 °C. About 181 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 22 °C in August, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Bumba?

October, averaging 178 mm over 25 days with rain. The driest month is January with 41 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,402 mm.

Are these figures a forecast?

No. They are 1991–2020 climate normals: the average of thirty years, which describes what a month is usually like in Bumba rather than what any particular week will bring. Individual years can differ substantially from the normal.

Data sources and method

ERA5 / ERA5-Land reanalysis — Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), ECMWF. Copernicus Licence
Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo.com. CC BY 4.0
NOAA OISST v2.1 — NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Public domain
GeoNames — GeoNames.org. CC BY 4.0

Normal period: 1991–2020
Data point: 2.188°, 22.468° (the coordinates the reanalysis values are taken for)
Dataset version: era5-1991-2020-scores1.1
Last processed: 1 August 2026

Measured values come from ERA5 reanalysis and are reproduced unchanged. Calculated by us: monthly rankings, daylight hours, beach and comfort scores. Full formulas are on the methodology page.

Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.