Kisangani climate

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Kisangani is warmest in February, with average highs of 32 °C, and coldest in August, when nights average 22 °C. October is the wettest month (187 mm) and January the driest (70 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Kisangani averages 1,576 mm of rain and 362 days above 25 °C.

Democratic Republic of the Congo · population 1,181,788 · 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 February 32 °C
Coldest month August 22 °C
Driest month January 70 mm
Wettest month October 187 mm
Least cloud January 78 % cloud
Hottest on record February 39 °C
Coldest on record January 19 °C

What to expectKisangani through the year

Kisangani changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 29 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, 362 days a year reach 25 °C, 138 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C, in February.

Rain is strongly seasonal. October averages 187 mm against 70 mm in January — 2.7 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	30.8 °C	70 mm	78 %
February	31.6 °C	89 mm	79 %
March	30.8 °C	157 mm	84 %
April	29.8 °C	153 mm	86 %
May	29.4 °C	124 mm	83 %
June	29.2 °C	96 mm	83 %
July	29.0 °C	101 mm	81 %
August	28.7 °C	143 mm	83 %
September	28.7 °C	167 mm	85 %
October	28.7 °C	187 mm	88 %
November	28.5 °C	183 mm	87 %
December	29.4 °C	106 mm	82 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	30.8 °C	22.3 °C	25.8 °C	36.7 °C	19.4 °C	31	19
February	31.6 °C	22.7 °C	26.4 °C	38.5 °C	19.4 °C	28	20
March	30.8 °C	22.8 °C	26.0 °C	37.7 °C	20.4 °C	31	20
April	29.8 °C	22.7 °C	25.5 °C	37.1 °C	20.9 °C	30	14
May	29.4 °C	22.7 °C	25.3 °C	34.8 °C	20.7 °C	31	11
June	29.2 °C	22.2 °C	24.9 °C	34.6 °C	20.5 °C	30	9
July	29.0 °C	21.8 °C	24.6 °C	34.2 °C	19.9 °C	31	8
August	28.7 °C	21.7 °C	24.4 °C	33.7 °C	19.7 °C	31	6
September	28.7 °C	21.8 °C	24.5 °C	33.2 °C	20.4 °C	29	6
October	28.7 °C	21.9 °C	24.5 °C	33.1 °C	20.2 °C	30	7
November	28.5 °C	21.9 °C	24.4 °C	33.8 °C	20.3 °C	29	6
December	29.4 °C	22.1 °C	25.0 °C	34.4 °C	19.8 °C	31	12

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	70 mm	13	12 h/day	78 %	82 %	9.0 km/h
February	89 mm	14	12 h/day	79 %	81 %	9.6 km/h
March	157 mm	19	12 h/day	84 %	86 %	9.0 km/h
April	153 mm	21	12 h/day	86 %	89 %	7.5 km/h
May	124 mm	21	12 h/day	83 %	90 %	6.4 km/h
June	96 mm	19	12 h/day	83 %	89 %	6.4 km/h
July	101 mm	19	12 h/day	81 %	89 %	7.0 km/h
August	143 mm	24	12 h/day	83 %	90 %	7.2 km/h
September	167 mm	25	12 h/day	85 %	90 %	7.2 km/h
October	187 mm	26	12 h/day	88 %	90 %	7.1 km/h
November	183 mm	24	12 h/day	87 %	91 %	7.0 km/h
December	106 mm	18	12 h/day	82 %	88 %	8.1 km/h

How Kisangani 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
Kisangani	32 °C	22 °C	1,576 mm	362
Bumba · Democratic Republic of the Congo	33 °C	22 °C	1,402 mm	363
Isiro · Democratic Republic of the Congo	32 °C	19 °C	1,679 mm	335
Kindu · Democratic Republic of the Congo	30 °C	22 °C	1,570 mm	359
Butembo · Democratic Republic of the Congo	25 °C	14 °C	1,754 mm	32
Goma · Democratic Republic of the Congo	23 °C	17 °C	2,467 mm	4
Gisenyi · Rwanda	23 °C	18 °C	2,467 mm	9

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Kisangani’s climate

When is the best time to visit Kisangani?

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

How hot does Kisangani get?

In February, the warmest month, daily highs average 32 °C. About 138 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 39 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 22 °C in August, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Kisangani?

October, averaging 187 mm over 26 days with rain. The driest month is January with 70 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,576 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 Kisangani 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: 0.515°, 25.191° (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.