Kindu climate

Name: Kindu
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Kindu is warmest in July, with average highs of 30 °C, and coldest in July, when nights average 22 °C. November is the wettest month (206 mm) and July the driest (32 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Kindu averages 1,570 mm of rain and 359 days above 25 °C.

Democratic Republic of the Congo · population 234,651 · 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 30 °C
Coldest month July 22 °C
Driest month July 32 mm
Wettest month November 206 mm
Least cloud July 59 % cloud
Hottest on record February 37 °C
Coldest on record June 19 °C

What to expectKindu through the year

Kindu changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 30 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, 359 days a year reach 25 °C, 138 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C, in February.

Rain is strongly seasonal. November averages 206 mm against 32 mm in July — 6.5 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	29.3 °C	143 mm	87 %
February	30.0 °C	127 mm	87 %
March	29.7 °C	155 mm	87 %
April	29.1 °C	160 mm	88 %
May	29.2 °C	107 mm	79 %
June	29.7 °C	40 mm	67 %
July	30.4 °C	32 mm	59 %
August	30.1 °C	71 mm	68 %
September	29.3 °C	138 mm	78 %
October	28.8 °C	205 mm	86 %
November	28.3 °C	206 mm	88 %
December	28.4 °C	186 mm	89 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	29.3 °C	22.0 °C	25.0 °C	34.2 °C	19.5 °C	30	12
February	30.0 °C	22.4 °C	25.4 °C	36.9 °C	20.5 °C	28	14
March	29.7 °C	22.4 °C	25.4 °C	35.8 °C	20.3 °C	31	14
April	29.1 °C	22.5 °C	25.1 °C	35.4 °C	20.7 °C	29	10
May	29.2 °C	22.4 °C	25.1 °C	34.0 °C	20.5 °C	30	10
June	29.7 °C	21.9 °C	25.2 °C	35.3 °C	18.9 °C	30	13
July	30.4 °C	21.6 °C	25.4 °C	35.9 °C	18.9 °C	31	19
August	30.1 °C	21.8 °C	25.2 °C	35.9 °C	19.5 °C	31	16
September	29.3 °C	21.8 °C	24.8 °C	34.6 °C	20.3 °C	30	11
October	28.8 °C	21.7 °C	24.5 °C	34.5 °C	20.1 °C	30	8
November	28.3 °C	21.7 °C	24.4 °C	32.4 °C	20.0 °C	29	6
December	28.4 °C	21.8 °C	24.4 °C	32.2 °C	19.4 °C	30	5

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	143 mm	20	12 h/day	87 %	87 %	7.6 km/h
February	127 mm	18	12 h/day	87 %	87 %	8.1 km/h
March	155 mm	21	12 h/day	87 %	88 %	7.9 km/h
April	160 mm	21	12 h/day	88 %	90 %	7.2 km/h
May	107 mm	17	12 h/day	79 %	89 %	7.2 km/h
June	40 mm	8	12 h/day	67 %	84 %	8.3 km/h
July	32 mm	6	12 h/day	59 %	78 %	9.3 km/h
August	71 mm	13	12 h/day	68 %	82 %	9.5 km/h
September	138 mm	21	12 h/day	78 %	86 %	8.8 km/h
October	205 mm	25	12 h/day	86 %	89 %	7.9 km/h
November	206 mm	25	12 h/day	88 %	90 %	7.0 km/h
December	186 mm	24	12 h/day	89 %	90 %	6.9 km/h

How Kindu 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
Kindu	30 °C	22 °C	1,570 mm	359
Bukavu · Democratic Republic of the Congo	26 °C	16 °C	1,961 mm	109
Uvira · Democratic Republic of the Congo	28 °C	22 °C	499 mm	350
Bujumbura · Burundi	28 °C	22 °C	475 mm	344
Kabinda · Democratic Republic of the Congo	32 °C	19 °C	1,571 mm	352
Kisangani · Democratic Republic of the Congo	32 °C	22 °C	1,576 mm	362
Goma · Democratic Republic of the Congo	23 °C	17 °C	2,467 mm	4

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Kindu’s climate

When is the best time to visit Kindu?

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 Kindu get?

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 30 °C. About 138 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 22 °C in July, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Kindu?

November, averaging 206 mm over 25 days with rain. The driest month is July with 32 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,570 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 Kindu 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: -2.944°, 25.922° (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.