Bunia climate

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Bunia is warmest in February, with average highs of 28 °C, and coldest in December, when nights average 17 °C. October is the wettest month (154 mm) and January the driest (34 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Bunia averages 1,094 mm of rain and 284 days above 25 °C.

Democratic Republic of the Congo · population 399,282 · 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 28 °C
Coldest month December 17 °C
Driest month January 34 mm
Wettest month October 154 mm
Least cloud January 64 % cloud
Hottest on record August 34 °C
Coldest on record December 13 °C

What to expectBunia through the year

Bunia changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 26 and 28 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 284 days a year reach 25 °C, 10 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 34 °C, in August.

Rain is strongly seasonal. October averages 154 mm against 34 mm in January — 4.5 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	27.4 °C	34 mm	64 %
February	28.5 °C	44 mm	67 %
March	27.6 °C	96 mm	75 %
April	26.4 °C	103 mm	82 %
May	26.2 °C	79 mm	73 %
June	25.9 °C	81 mm	69 %
July	25.7 °C	79 mm	68 %
August	25.6 °C	108 mm	72 %
September	25.9 °C	125 mm	77 %
October	25.4 °C	154 mm	86 %
November	25.2 °C	125 mm	81 %
December	26.1 °C	65 mm	68 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	27.4 °C	17.5 °C	22.2 °C	31.7 °C	13.8 °C	29	1
February	28.5 °C	18.1 °C	22.9 °C	34.3 °C	13.8 °C	27	6
March	27.6 °C	18.4 °C	22.5 °C	33.3 °C	15.4 °C	28	3
April	26.4 °C	18.4 °C	21.9 °C	32.2 °C	14.7 °C	24	0
May	26.2 °C	18.2 °C	21.8 °C	29.3 °C	15.3 °C	26	0
June	25.9 °C	17.6 °C	21.4 °C	29.4 °C	13.6 °C	23	0
July	25.7 °C	17.2 °C	21.0 °C	28.9 °C	14.4 °C	22	0
August	25.6 °C	17.2 °C	20.9 °C	34.4 °C	13.4 °C	21	0
September	25.9 °C	17.4 °C	21.1 °C	30.2 °C	14.2 °C	23	0
October	25.4 °C	17.6 °C	21.0 °C	29.3 °C	14.0 °C	19	0
November	25.2 °C	17.4 °C	20.9 °C	28.0 °C	14.4 °C	18	0
December	26.1 °C	17.1 °C	21.3 °C	29.9 °C	13.0 °C	24	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	34 mm	7	12 h/day	64 %	67 %	9.0 km/h
February	44 mm	8	12 h/day	67 %	65 %	9.7 km/h
March	96 mm	15	12 h/day	75 %	74 %	9.9 km/h
April	103 mm	17	12 h/day	82 %	80 %	9.9 km/h
May	79 mm	15	12 h/day	73 %	79 %	10 km/h
June	81 mm	15	12 h/day	69 %	76 %	9.2 km/h
July	79 mm	16	12 h/day	68 %	75 %	8.7 km/h
August	108 mm	19	12 h/day	72 %	78 %	8.5 km/h
September	125 mm	20	12 h/day	77 %	80 %	8.3 km/h
October	154 mm	24	12 h/day	86 %	82 %	8.2 km/h
November	125 mm	19	12 h/day	81 %	83 %	8.5 km/h
December	65 mm	11	12 h/day	68 %	75 %	8.8 km/h

How Bunia 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
Bunia	28 °C	17 °C	1,094 mm	284
Butembo · Democratic Republic of the Congo	25 °C	14 °C	1,754 mm	32
Mbarara · Uganda	27 °C	15 °C	717 mm	257
Gulu · Uganda	33 °C	18 °C	1,471 mm	349

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Bunia’s climate

When is the best time to visit Bunia?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. July, August, November 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 Bunia get?

In February, the warmest month, daily highs average 28 °C. About 10 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 34 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 17 °C in December, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Bunia?

October, averaging 154 mm over 24 days with rain. The driest month is January with 34 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,094 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 Bunia 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: 1.559°, 30.252° (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.