Gemena climate

Name: Gemena
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Gemena is warmest in February, with average highs of 33 °C, and coldest in August, when nights average 21 °C. October is the wettest month (181 mm) and January the driest (28 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Gemena averages 1,375 mm of rain and 363 days above 25 °C.

Democratic Republic of the Congo · population 197,159 · 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 21 °C
Driest month January 28 mm
Wettest month October 181 mm
Least cloud January 65 % cloud
Hottest on record February 39 °C
Coldest on record January 17 °C

What to expectGemena through the year

Gemena changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 28 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, 175 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C, in February.

Rain is strongly seasonal. October averages 181 mm against 28 mm in January — 6.4 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	32.6 °C	28 mm	65 %
February	32.9 °C	50 mm	70 %
March	31.8 °C	129 mm	75 %
April	30.7 °C	135 mm	78 %
May	30.2 °C	118 mm	73 %
June	29.5 °C	104 mm	73 %
July	28.8 °C	125 mm	77 %
August	28.5 °C	165 mm	81 %
September	28.7 °C	161 mm	81 %
October	28.8 °C	181 mm	82 %
November	29.3 °C	136 mm	77 %
December	30.6 °C	43 mm	66 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	32.6 °C	22.1 °C	26.8 °C	37.6 °C	17.2 °C	31	28
February	32.9 °C	22.9 °C	27.3 °C	39.4 °C	18.5 °C	28	25
March	31.8 °C	23.1 °C	26.8 °C	38.8 °C	19.9 °C	31	25
April	30.7 °C	22.9 °C	26.2 °C	36.2 °C	20.6 °C	30	20
May	30.2 °C	22.7 °C	25.9 °C	35.7 °C	19.6 °C	31	17
June	29.5 °C	22.2 °C	25.3 °C	33.2 °C	19.9 °C	30	11
July	28.8 °C	21.6 °C	24.7 °C	33.2 °C	19.8 °C	31	6
August	28.5 °C	21.4 °C	24.4 °C	31.6 °C	19.5 °C	30	3
September	28.7 °C	21.6 °C	24.5 °C	32.2 °C	20.0 °C	30	4
October	28.8 °C	21.7 °C	24.6 °C	32.2 °C	20.0 °C	31	6
November	29.3 °C	21.9 °C	24.9 °C	33.0 °C	19.5 °C	30	9
December	30.6 °C	21.8 °C	25.7 °C	35.4 °C	18.1 °C	31	20

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	28 mm	5	12 h/day	65 %	65 %	10 km/h
February	50 mm	9	12 h/day	70 %	69 %	11 km/h
March	129 mm	17	12 h/day	75 %	78 %	11 km/h
April	135 mm	19	12 h/day	78 %	83 %	10 km/h
May	118 mm	19	12 h/day	73 %	84 %	8.7 km/h
June	104 mm	18	12 h/day	73 %	85 %	8.3 km/h
July	125 mm	21	12 h/day	77 %	86 %	8.3 km/h
August	165 mm	25	12 h/day	81 %	88 %	8.8 km/h
September	161 mm	24	12 h/day	81 %	88 %	8.5 km/h
October	181 mm	25	12 h/day	82 %	88 %	8.0 km/h
November	136 mm	21	12 h/day	77 %	87 %	8.4 km/h
December	43 mm	8	12 h/day	66 %	78 %	9.1 km/h

How Gemena 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
Gemena	33 °C	21 °C	1,375 mm	363
Bangui · Central African Republic	35 °C	22 °C	1,180 mm	364
Bégoua · Central African Republic	35 °C	22 °C	1,324 mm	363
Bumba · Democratic Republic of the Congo	33 °C	22 °C	1,402 mm	363
Mbandaka · Democratic Republic of the Congo	31 °C	23 °C	1,663 mm	364

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Gemena’s climate

When is the best time to visit Gemena?

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 Gemena get?

In February, the warmest month, daily highs average 33 °C. About 175 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 21 °C in August, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Gemena?

October, averaging 181 mm over 25 days with rain. The driest month is January with 28 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,375 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 Gemena 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: 3.257°, 19.772° (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.