Kalemie climate

Name: Kalemie
Address: CD

Kalemie is warmest in September, with average highs of 30 °C, and coldest in July, when nights average 20 °C. December is the wettest month (191 mm) and July the driest (1.2 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Kalemie averages 1,133 mm of rain and 344 days above 25 °C.

Democratic Republic of the Congo · population 160,961 · 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 September 30 °C
Coldest month July 20 °C
Driest month July 1 mm
Wettest month December 191 mm
Least cloud July 29 % cloud
Hottest on record February 33 °C
Coldest on record July 14 °C

What to expectKalemie through the year

Kalemie changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 27 and 30 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 344 days a year reach 25 °C, 28 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 33 °C, in February.

Rain is strongly seasonal. December averages 191 mm against 1 mm in July — 153 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	26.9 °C	176 mm	87 %
February	27.3 °C	134 mm	86 %
March	26.9 °C	167 mm	84 %
April	26.3 °C	168 mm	78 %
May	26.7 °C	59 mm	52 %
June	27.1 °C	3 mm	37 %
July	27.2 °C	1 mm	29 %
August	28.6 °C	4 mm	33 %
September	29.8 °C	12 mm	48 %
October	29.1 °C	65 mm	73 %
November	27.1 °C	152 mm	85 %
December	26.4 °C	191 mm	87 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	26.9 °C	21.1 °C	23.6 °C	30.4 °C	17.8 °C	29	0
February	27.3 °C	21.5 °C	24.1 °C	33.2 °C	18.5 °C	27	0
March	26.9 °C	21.4 °C	23.9 °C	30.5 °C	18.3 °C	28	0
April	26.3 °C	21.3 °C	23.6 °C	30.0 °C	18.8 °C	26	0
May	26.7 °C	21.4 °C	24.0 °C	29.8 °C	15.9 °C	30	0
June	27.1 °C	20.4 °C	23.8 °C	30.2 °C	14.7 °C	30	0
July	27.2 °C	19.8 °C	23.4 °C	30.7 °C	14.1 °C	30	0
August	28.6 °C	20.6 °C	24.5 °C	31.8 °C	14.8 °C	31	2
September	29.8 °C	21.6 °C	25.6 °C	32.8 °C	16.3 °C	30	14
October	29.1 °C	21.8 °C	25.1 °C	32.7 °C	17.6 °C	30	11
November	27.1 °C	21.2 °C	23.8 °C	31.4 °C	18.2 °C	27	2
December	26.4 °C	20.9 °C	23.3 °C	29.5 °C	18.5 °C	27	0

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	176 mm	24	12 h/day	87 %	83 %	9.4 km/h
February	134 mm	19	12 h/day	86 %	82 %	9.7 km/h
March	167 mm	22	12 h/day	84 %	83 %	9.7 km/h
April	168 mm	22	12 h/day	78 %	84 %	10 km/h
May	59 mm	10	12 h/day	52 %	75 %	12 km/h
June	3 mm	1	12 h/day	37 %	64 %	14 km/h
July	1 mm	0	12 h/day	29 %	59 %	14 km/h
August	4 mm	1	12 h/day	33 %	58 %	13 km/h
September	12 mm	2	12 h/day	48 %	60 %	13 km/h
October	65 mm	10	12 h/day	73 %	70 %	12 km/h
November	152 mm	19	12 h/day	85 %	80 %	11 km/h
December	191 mm	24	12 h/day	87 %	84 %	9.7 km/h

How Kalemie 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
Kalemie	30 °C	20 °C	1,133 mm	344
Kigoma · Tanzania	28 °C	22 °C	1,808 mm	333
Kasulu · Tanzania	30 °C	16 °C	1,540 mm	291
Mpanda · Tanzania	32 °C	15 °C	909 mm	346
Uvira · Democratic Republic of the Congo	28 °C	22 °C	499 mm	350
Bujumbura · Burundi	28 °C	22 °C	475 mm	344
Gitega · Burundi	26 °C	14 °C	758 mm	70

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Kalemie’s climate

When is the best time to visit Kalemie?

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

How hot does Kalemie get?

In September, the warmest month, daily highs average 30 °C. About 28 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 33 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 20 °C in July, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Kalemie?

December, averaging 191 mm over 24 days with rain. The driest month is July with 1 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,133 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 Kalemie 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: -5.947°, 29.195° (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.