Kananga climate

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Kananga is warmest in July, with average highs of 32 °C, and coldest in June, when nights average 19 °C. November is the wettest month (184 mm) and July the driest (6.2 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Kananga averages 1,386 mm of rain and 356 days above 25 °C.

Democratic Republic of the Congo · population 1,247,168 · 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 June 19 °C
Driest month July 6 mm
Wettest month November 184 mm
Least cloud July 40 % cloud
Hottest on record August 37 °C
Coldest on record June 14 °C

What to expectKananga through the year

Kananga changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 31 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, 356 days a year reach 25 °C, 155 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C, in August.

Rain is strongly seasonal. November averages 184 mm against 6 mm in July — 30 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	132 mm	88 %
February	29.5 °C	126 mm	87 %
March	29.4 °C	171 mm	86 %
April	29.2 °C	175 mm	82 %
May	30.0 °C	62 mm	63 %
June	31.1 °C	10 mm	44 %
July	32.0 °C	6 mm	40 %
August	30.9 °C	51 mm	55 %
September	29.4 °C	131 mm	72 %
October	28.7 °C	179 mm	83 %
November	28.2 °C	184 mm	87 %
December	28.3 °C	159 mm	88 %

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	20.6 °C	23.9 °C	33.8 °C	17.5 °C	30	9
February	29.5 °C	20.8 °C	24.4 °C	35.1 °C	18.5 °C	28	12
March	29.4 °C	20.9 °C	24.3 °C	35.6 °C	18.9 °C	30	12
April	29.2 °C	20.9 °C	24.2 °C	34.3 °C	18.5 °C	29	11
May	30.0 °C	20.7 °C	24.6 °C	34.6 °C	17.8 °C	31	16
June	31.1 °C	19.2 °C	24.7 °C	35.4 °C	14.1 °C	30	22
July	32.0 °C	19.3 °C	25.2 °C	36.0 °C	15.6 °C	31	26
August	30.9 °C	20.4 °C	25.0 °C	36.6 °C	16.2 °C	31	21
September	29.4 °C	20.6 °C	24.1 °C	35.5 °C	18.7 °C	30	11
October	28.7 °C	20.4 °C	23.7 °C	34.1 °C	18.0 °C	30	7
November	28.2 °C	20.3 °C	23.5 °C	32.9 °C	17.8 °C	28	5
December	28.3 °C	20.4 °C	23.5 °C	32.9 °C	18.4 °C	30	4

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	132 mm	20	12 h/day	88 %	86 %	8.2 km/h
February	126 mm	18	12 h/day	87 %	85 %	8.6 km/h
March	171 mm	22	12 h/day	86 %	86 %	8.3 km/h
April	175 mm	22	12 h/day	82 %	87 %	8.2 km/h
May	62 mm	11	12 h/day	63 %	81 %	8.2 km/h
June	10 mm	2	12 h/day	44 %	65 %	9.4 km/h
July	6 mm	1	12 h/day	40 %	56 %	9.9 km/h
August	51 mm	10	12 h/day	55 %	71 %	9.6 km/h
September	131 mm	19	12 h/day	72 %	83 %	9.2 km/h
October	179 mm	24	12 h/day	83 %	87 %	8.3 km/h
November	184 mm	25	12 h/day	87 %	88 %	7.8 km/h
December	159 mm	22	12 h/day	88 %	88 %	7.9 km/h

How Kananga 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
Kananga	32 °C	19 °C	1,386 mm	356
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
Tshikapa · Democratic Republic of the Congo	33 °C	20 °C	1,217 mm	363
Gandajika · Democratic Republic of the Congo	32 °C	19 °C	1,198 mm	360
Kabinda · Democratic Republic of the Congo	32 °C	19 °C	1,571 mm	352
Dundo · Angola	34 °C	18 °C	1,437 mm	359

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Kananga’s climate

When is the best time to visit Kananga?

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 Kananga get?

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 32 °C. About 155 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 June, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Kananga?

November, averaging 184 mm over 25 days with rain. The driest month is July with 6 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,386 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 Kananga 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: -5.896°, 22.417° (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.