Kikwit climate

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Kikwit is warmest in July, with average highs of 32 °C, and coldest in June, when nights average 20 °C. November is the wettest month (177 mm) and July the driest (7.5 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Kikwit averages 1,272 mm of rain and 363 days above 25 °C.

Democratic Republic of the Congo · population 509,367 · 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 20 °C
Driest month July 8 mm
Wettest month November 177 mm
Least cloud July 44 % cloud
Hottest on record July 37 °C
Coldest on record June 15 °C

What to expectKikwit through the year

Kikwit 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, 363 days a year reach 25 °C, 225 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C, in July.

Rain is strongly seasonal. November averages 177 mm against 8 mm in July — 24 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	29.9 °C	115 mm	85 %
February	30.6 °C	112 mm	85 %
March	30.6 °C	133 mm	85 %
April	29.9 °C	160 mm	83 %
May	30.3 °C	82 mm	68 %
June	31.5 °C	13 mm	47 %
July	32.5 °C	8 mm	44 %
August	32.1 °C	45 mm	57 %
September	31.1 °C	110 mm	68 %
October	29.9 °C	168 mm	79 %
November	29.2 °C	177 mm	84 %
December	29.3 °C	151 mm	86 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	29.9 °C	21.3 °C	25.0 °C	34.3 °C	18.6 °C	31	16
February	30.6 °C	21.6 °C	25.5 °C	34.8 °C	18.9 °C	28	19
March	30.6 °C	21.7 °C	25.4 °C	35.6 °C	18.9 °C	31	20
April	29.9 °C	21.5 °C	25.0 °C	36.2 °C	19.3 °C	30	15
May	30.3 °C	21.4 °C	25.2 °C	35.5 °C	18.5 °C	31	17
June	31.5 °C	20.4 °C	25.5 °C	36.3 °C	14.7 °C	30	24
July	32.5 °C	20.5 °C	26.1 °C	36.9 °C	15.2 °C	31	30
August	32.1 °C	21.4 °C	26.2 °C	36.6 °C	18.1 °C	31	27
September	31.1 °C	21.3 °C	25.5 °C	36.2 °C	19.5 °C	30	21
October	29.9 °C	21.1 °C	24.8 °C	35.1 °C	19.1 °C	31	15
November	29.2 °C	21.0 °C	24.5 °C	33.8 °C	19.0 °C	30	11
December	29.3 °C	21.1 °C	24.5 °C	33.1 °C	19.0 °C	31	11

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	115 mm	19	12 h/day	85 %	84 %	7.2 km/h
February	112 mm	17	12 h/day	85 %	83 %	7.7 km/h
March	133 mm	20	12 h/day	85 %	85 %	7.5 km/h
April	160 mm	23	12 h/day	83 %	87 %	7.4 km/h
May	82 mm	15	12 h/day	68 %	84 %	7.0 km/h
June	13 mm	3	12 h/day	47 %	71 %	7.8 km/h
July	8 mm	2	12 h/day	44 %	61 %	8.7 km/h
August	45 mm	10	12 h/day	57 %	68 %	8.8 km/h
September	110 mm	19	12 h/day	68 %	79 %	8.4 km/h
October	168 mm	25	12 h/day	79 %	85 %	7.6 km/h
November	177 mm	25	12 h/day	84 %	87 %	6.8 km/h
December	151 mm	23	12 h/day	86 %	86 %	6.9 km/h

How Kikwit 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
Kikwit	32 °C	20 °C	1,272 mm	363
Bandundu Province · Democratic Republic of the Congo	32 °C	23 °C	1,362 mm	365
Tshikapa · Democratic Republic of the Congo	33 °C	20 °C	1,217 mm	363
Chitato · Angola	33 °C	18 °C	1,442 mm	356
Dundo · Angola	34 °C	18 °C	1,437 mm	359
Masina · Democratic Republic of the Congo	31 °C	19 °C	1,197 mm	365
Kinshasa · Democratic Republic of the Congo	31 °C	20 °C	1,074 mm	365

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Kikwit’s climate

When is the best time to visit Kikwit?

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 Kikwit get?

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 32 °C. About 225 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 20 °C in June, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Kikwit?

November, averaging 177 mm over 25 days with rain. The driest month is July with 8 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,272 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 Kikwit 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: -5.041°, 18.816° (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.