Butembo climate

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Butembo is warmest in February, with average highs of 25 °C, and coldest in December, when nights average 14 °C. October is the wettest month (225 mm) and January the driest (56 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Butembo averages 1,754 mm of rain and 32 days above 25 °C.

Democratic Republic of the Congo · population 286,242 · 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 25 °C
Coldest month December 14 °C
Driest month January 56 mm
Wettest month October 225 mm
Least cloud January 73 % cloud
Hottest on record February 31 °C
Coldest on record September 10 °C

What to expectButembo through the year

Butembo changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 23 and 25 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 32 days a year reach 25 °C, 0 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 31 °C, in February.

Rain is strongly seasonal. October averages 225 mm against 56 mm in January — 4.0 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	23.6 °C	56 mm	73 %
February	24.6 °C	60 mm	75 %
March	24.2 °C	156 mm	81 %
April	23.5 °C	175 mm	86 %
May	23.2 °C	133 mm	79 %
June	22.7 °C	125 mm	76 %
July	22.7 °C	137 mm	74 %
August	22.7 °C	177 mm	79 %
September	23.0 °C	206 mm	82 %
October	22.7 °C	225 mm	88 %
November	22.5 °C	195 mm	86 %
December	22.6 °C	109 mm	76 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C
January	23.6 °C	14.0 °C	18.3 °C	27.7 °C	11.0 °C	4
February	24.6 °C	14.5 °C	19.0 °C	30.8 °C	10.2 °C	10
March	24.2 °C	14.8 °C	18.7 °C	29.1 °C	11.0 °C	9
April	23.5 °C	15.2 °C	18.6 °C	27.4 °C	11.2 °C	3
May	23.2 °C	15.1 °C	18.5 °C	26.0 °C	10.9 °C	1
June	22.7 °C	14.4 °C	17.9 °C	25.3 °C	11.4 °C	0
July	22.7 °C	14.0 °C	17.6 °C	26.4 °C	10.6 °C	1
August	22.7 °C	14.2 °C	17.7 °C	26.1 °C	10.5 °C	1
September	23.0 °C	14.2 °C	17.8 °C	26.9 °C	10.1 °C	1
October	22.7 °C	14.3 °C	17.8 °C	26.3 °C	10.6 °C	1
November	22.5 °C	14.2 °C	17.6 °C	25.7 °C	10.8 °C	0
December	22.6 °C	13.9 °C	17.7 °C	27.6 °C	10.8 °C	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	56 mm	9	12 h/day	73 %	74 %	9.2 km/h
February	60 mm	9	12 h/day	75 %	72 %	9.2 km/h
March	156 mm	19	12 h/day	81 %	80 %	8.1 km/h
April	175 mm	20	12 h/day	86 %	84 %	8.0 km/h
May	133 mm	17	12 h/day	79 %	83 %	8.2 km/h
June	125 mm	15	12 h/day	76 %	83 %	7.1 km/h
July	137 mm	17	12 h/day	74 %	82 %	7.2 km/h
August	177 mm	21	12 h/day	79 %	84 %	7.4 km/h
September	206 mm	22	12 h/day	82 %	85 %	7.6 km/h
October	225 mm	23	12 h/day	88 %	86 %	7.6 km/h
November	195 mm	23	12 h/day	86 %	86 %	7.5 km/h
December	109 mm	15	12 h/day	76 %	81 %	8.2 km/h

How Butembo 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
Butembo	25 °C	14 °C	1,754 mm	32
Mbarara · Uganda	27 °C	15 °C	717 mm	257
Musanze · Rwanda	24 °C	15 °C	1,637 mm	20
Bunia · Democratic Republic of the Congo	28 °C	17 °C	1,094 mm	284
Goma · Democratic Republic of the Congo	23 °C	17 °C	2,467 mm	4
Gisenyi · Rwanda	23 °C	18 °C	2,467 mm	9

Where Butembo ranks

Ranking	Position	Value
The coolest places in Africa in September	30th of 50	23 °C
The coolest places in Africa in October	32nd of 50	23 °C
Places with the best weather in Africa in January	39th of 50	90/100
Places with the best weather in Africa in February	47th of 50	89/100

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Butembo’s climate

When is the best time to visit Butembo?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. February, March, April 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 Butembo get?

In February, the warmest month, daily highs average 25 °C. About 0 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 31 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 14 °C in December, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Butembo?

October, averaging 225 mm over 23 days with rain. The driest month is January with 56 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,754 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 Butembo 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: 0.142°, 29.291° (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.