Gandajika climate

Name: Gandajika
Address: CD

Gandajika is warmest in July, with average highs of 32 °C, and coldest in July, when nights average 19 °C. December is the wettest month (178 mm) and July the driest (0.9 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Gandajika averages 1,198 mm of rain and 360 days above 25 °C.

Democratic Republic of the Congo · population 208,051 · 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 July 32 °C
Coldest month July 19 °C
Driest month July 1 mm
Wettest month December 178 mm
Least cloud July 34 % cloud
Hottest on record September 37 °C
Coldest on record June 13 °C

What to expectGandajika through the year

Gandajika changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 32 and 32 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 360 days a year reach 25 °C, 199 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C, in September.

Rain is strongly seasonal. December averages 178 mm against 1 mm in July — 192 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	28.8 °C	152 mm	89 %
February	29.6 °C	137 mm	87 %
March	29.6 °C	163 mm	86 %
April	29.7 °C	122 mm	76 %
May	31.1 °C	27 mm	55 %
June	31.8 °C	3 mm	39 %
July	32.3 °C	1 mm	34 %
August	32.1 °C	18 mm	47 %
September	30.6 °C	85 mm	65 %
October	29.2 °C	137 mm	80 %
November	28.8 °C	175 mm	86 %
December	28.5 °C	178 mm	89 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	28.8 °C	19.8 °C	23.5 °C	33.0 °C	16.7 °C	30	8
February	29.6 °C	20.1 °C	23.9 °C	34.5 °C	17.2 °C	28	13
March	29.6 °C	20.1 °C	24.0 °C	34.5 °C	18.0 °C	31	14
April	29.7 °C	20.1 °C	24.1 °C	34.8 °C	17.7 °C	29	15
May	31.1 °C	19.8 °C	24.9 °C	34.8 °C	16.0 °C	31	24
June	31.8 °C	18.6 °C	24.9 °C	35.2 °C	13.3 °C	30	27
July	32.3 °C	18.5 °C	25.2 °C	35.4 °C	13.5 °C	31	29
August	32.1 °C	19.7 °C	25.4 °C	36.0 °C	14.8 °C	31	28
September	30.6 °C	20.1 °C	24.4 °C	36.5 °C	17.5 °C	30	19
October	29.2 °C	19.8 °C	23.7 °C	34.9 °C	17.6 °C	30	10
November	28.8 °C	19.6 °C	23.3 °C	32.6 °C	17.8 °C	29	6
December	28.5 °C	19.7 °C	23.2 °C	32.0 °C	17.4 °C	30	5

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	152 mm	22	12 h/day	89 %	83 %	8.0 km/h
February	137 mm	19	12 h/day	87 %	82 %	8.2 km/h
March	163 mm	21	12 h/day	86 %	83 %	8.2 km/h
April	122 mm	18	12 h/day	76 %	80 %	9.0 km/h
May	27 mm	5	12 h/day	55 %	66 %	9.8 km/h
June	3 mm	1	12 h/day	39 %	49 %	10 km/h
July	1 mm	0	12 h/day	34 %	42 %	10 km/h
August	18 mm	4	12 h/day	47 %	57 %	10 km/h
September	85 mm	15	12 h/day	65 %	75 %	10 km/h
October	137 mm	22	12 h/day	80 %	82 %	8.8 km/h
November	175 mm	25	12 h/day	86 %	84 %	8.0 km/h
December	178 mm	24	13 h/day	89 %	84 %	7.8 km/h

How Gandajika 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
Gandajika	32 °C	19 °C	1,198 mm	360
Mwene-Ditu · Democratic Republic of the Congo	31 °C	18 °C	1,347 mm	351
Mbuji-Mayi · Democratic Republic of the Congo	33 °C	19 °C	1,239 mm	362
Kabinda · Democratic Republic of the Congo	32 °C	19 °C	1,571 mm	352
Kananga · Democratic Republic of the Congo	32 °C	19 °C	1,386 mm	356
Kamina · Democratic Republic of the Congo	31 °C	17 °C	1,233 mm	337
Tshikapa · Democratic Republic of the Congo	33 °C	20 °C	1,217 mm	363

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Gandajika’s climate

When is the best time to visit Gandajika?

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

How hot does Gandajika get?

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 32 °C. About 199 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 19 °C in July, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Gandajika?

December, averaging 178 mm over 24 days with rain. The driest month is July with 1 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,198 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 Gandajika 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: -6.745°, 23.953° (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.