Masina climate

Name: Masina
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Masina is warmest in September, with average highs of 31 °C, and coldest in July, when nights average 19 °C. November is the wettest month (196 mm) and July the driest (0.8 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Masina averages 1,197 mm of rain and 365 days above 25 °C.

Democratic Republic of the Congo · population 485,167 · 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 31 °C
Coldest month July 19 °C
Driest month July 1 mm
Wettest month November 196 mm
Least cloud July 52 % cloud
Hottest on record March 36 °C
Coldest on record June 16 °C

What to expectMasina through the year

Masina changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 30 and 31 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 365 days a year reach 25 °C, 165 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 36 °C, in March.

Rain is strongly seasonal. November averages 196 mm against 1 mm in July — 251 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	29.4 °C	123 mm	85 %
February	30.1 °C	109 mm	85 %
March	30.4 °C	134 mm	85 %
April	29.9 °C	193 mm	83 %
May	29.6 °C	100 mm	71 %
June	29.4 °C	6 mm	52 %
July	29.8 °C	1 mm	52 %
August	30.2 °C	9 mm	63 %
September	31.3 °C	23 mm	69 %
October	30.6 °C	133 mm	77 %
November	29.2 °C	196 mm	82 %
December	29.0 °C	169 mm	85 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	29.4 °C	22.5 °C	25.6 °C	33.4 °C	20.5 °C	31	9
February	30.1 °C	22.8 °C	26.0 °C	34.9 °C	20.5 °C	28	15
March	30.4 °C	23.0 °C	26.3 °C	35.7 °C	20.0 °C	31	18
April	29.9 °C	23.0 °C	25.9 °C	33.3 °C	20.6 °C	30	14
May	29.6 °C	22.6 °C	25.7 °C	33.9 °C	20.1 °C	31	11
June	29.4 °C	20.4 °C	24.7 °C	33.4 °C	15.6 °C	30	10
July	29.8 °C	19.5 °C	24.4 °C	34.2 °C	15.8 °C	31	15
August	30.2 °C	20.3 °C	25.0 °C	33.9 °C	16.7 °C	31	17
September	31.3 °C	21.6 °C	26.1 °C	35.2 °C	18.6 °C	30	23
October	30.6 °C	22.5 °C	26.0 °C	35.4 °C	19.2 °C	31	20
November	29.2 °C	22.3 °C	25.3 °C	33.0 °C	20.4 °C	30	7
December	29.0 °C	22.4 °C	25.3 °C	31.7 °C	20.3 °C	31	5

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	123 mm	20	12 h/day	85 %	85 %	7.9 km/h
February	109 mm	17	12 h/day	85 %	83 %	8.5 km/h
March	134 mm	20	12 h/day	85 %	83 %	8.3 km/h
April	193 mm	23	12 h/day	83 %	86 %	7.5 km/h
May	100 mm	17	12 h/day	71 %	85 %	7.4 km/h
June	6 mm	1	12 h/day	52 %	77 %	8.9 km/h
July	1 mm	0	12 h/day	52 %	71 %	10 km/h
August	9 mm	2	12 h/day	63 %	69 %	11 km/h
September	23 mm	6	12 h/day	69 %	69 %	11 km/h
October	133 mm	21	12 h/day	77 %	77 %	9.2 km/h
November	196 mm	26	12 h/day	82 %	85 %	7.7 km/h
December	169 mm	25	12 h/day	85 %	86 %	7.4 km/h

How Masina 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
Masina	31 °C	19 °C	1,197 mm	365
Kinshasa · Democratic Republic of the Congo	31 °C	20 °C	1,074 mm	365
Bandundu Province · Democratic Republic of the Congo	32 °C	23 °C	1,362 mm	365
Matadi · Democratic Republic of the Congo	31 °C	18 °C	1,065 mm	359
Boma · Democratic Republic of the Congo	31 °C	19 °C	1,150 mm	363
Uíge · Angola	30 °C	16 °C	1,921 mm	345
Cabinda · Angola	29 °C	20 °C	1,267 mm	298

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Masina’s climate

When is the best time to visit Masina?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. June, July, August 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 Masina get?

In September, the warmest month, daily highs average 31 °C. About 165 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 36 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 19 °C in July, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Masina?

November, averaging 196 mm over 26 days with rain. The driest month is July with 1 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,197 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 Masina 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: -4.384°, 15.391° (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.