Kabinda climate

Name: Kabinda
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Kabinda is warmest in July, with average highs of 32 °C, and coldest in July, when nights average 19 °C. November is the wettest month (224 mm) and July the driest (3.5 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Kabinda averages 1,571 mm of rain and 352 days above 25 °C.

Democratic Republic of the Congo · population 219,396 · 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 4 mm
Wettest month November 224 mm
Least cloud July 39 % cloud
Hottest on record August 36 °C
Coldest on record June 14 °C

What to expectKabinda through the year

Kabinda 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, 352 days a year reach 25 °C, 128 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 36 °C, in August.

Rain is strongly seasonal. November averages 224 mm against 4 mm in July — 64 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	27.9 °C	190 mm	89 %
February	28.8 °C	172 mm	88 %
March	28.9 °C	194 mm	86 %
April	28.9 °C	154 mm	78 %
May	30.2 °C	42 mm	58 %
June	31.1 °C	7 mm	44 %
July	31.6 °C	4 mm	39 %
August	30.8 °C	40 mm	51 %
September	28.9 °C	127 mm	68 %
October	27.9 °C	204 mm	82 %
November	27.7 °C	224 mm	87 %
December	27.6 °C	213 mm	90 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	27.9 °C	19.4 °C	22.8 °C	32.2 °C	15.7 °C	28	4
February	28.8 °C	19.7 °C	23.3 °C	34.4 °C	17.6 °C	27	7
March	28.9 °C	19.7 °C	23.3 °C	34.1 °C	17.9 °C	30	9
April	28.9 °C	19.8 °C	23.5 °C	34.0 °C	17.4 °C	29	8
May	30.2 °C	19.8 °C	24.4 °C	33.9 °C	17.1 °C	31	17
June	31.1 °C	18.9 °C	24.5 °C	34.2 °C	14.1 °C	30	23
July	31.6 °C	18.8 °C	24.8 °C	35.0 °C	14.9 °C	31	26
August	30.8 °C	19.5 °C	24.5 °C	35.7 °C	15.4 °C	31	20
September	28.9 °C	19.6 °C	23.3 °C	35.3 °C	16.9 °C	29	8
October	27.9 °C	19.3 °C	22.7 °C	33.0 °C	16.9 °C	29	3
November	27.7 °C	19.2 °C	22.5 °C	31.8 °C	17.3 °C	28	1
December	27.6 °C	19.2 °C	22.5 °C	31.3 °C	17.0 °C	29	1

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	190 mm	24	12 h/day	89 %	85 %	8.1 km/h
February	172 mm	21	12 h/day	88 %	84 %	8.4 km/h
March	194 mm	24	12 h/day	86 %	84 %	8.4 km/h
April	154 mm	20	12 h/day	78 %	82 %	9.4 km/h
May	42 mm	7	12 h/day	58 %	69 %	10 km/h
June	7 mm	1	12 h/day	44 %	53 %	11 km/h
July	4 mm	1	12 h/day	39 %	45 %	11 km/h
August	40 mm	8	12 h/day	51 %	63 %	11 km/h
September	127 mm	19	12 h/day	68 %	80 %	9.9 km/h
October	204 mm	26	12 h/day	82 %	85 %	8.9 km/h
November	224 mm	27	12 h/day	87 %	86 %	8.1 km/h
December	213 mm	26	12 h/day	90 %	86 %	7.9 km/h

How Kabinda 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
Kabinda	32 °C	19 °C	1,571 mm	352
Gandajika · Democratic Republic of the Congo	32 °C	19 °C	1,198 mm	360
Mbuji-Mayi · Democratic Republic of the Congo	33 °C	19 °C	1,239 mm	362
Mwene-Ditu · Democratic Republic of the Congo	31 °C	18 °C	1,347 mm	351
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
Kindu · Democratic Republic of the Congo	30 °C	22 °C	1,570 mm	359

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Kabinda’s climate

When is the best time to visit Kabinda?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. October, 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 Kabinda get?

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 32 °C. About 128 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 36 °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 Kabinda?

November, averaging 224 mm over 27 days with rain. The driest month is July with 4 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,571 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 Kabinda 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: -6.138°, 24.482° (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.