Matadi climate

Name: Matadi
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Matadi is warmest in March, with average highs of 31 °C, and coldest in July, when nights average 18 °C. April is the wettest month (185 mm) and July the driest (2.0 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Matadi averages 1,065 mm of rain and 359 days above 25 °C.

Democratic Republic of the Congo · population 425,662 · 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 March 31 °C
Coldest month July 18 °C
Driest month July 2 mm
Wettest month April 185 mm
Least cloud July 65 % cloud
Hottest on record January 36 °C
Coldest on record July 14 °C

What to expectMatadi through the year

Matadi has a clear annual cycle: average daily highs run from 27 °C in July to 31 °C in March, a swing of 4.1 °C in mean temperature across the year.

Counted across a normal year, 359 days a year reach 25 °C, 120 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 36 °C, in January.

Rain is strongly seasonal. April averages 185 mm against 2 mm in July — 91 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	29.7 °C	146 mm	88 %
February	30.3 °C	122 mm	88 %
March	30.6 °C	135 mm	87 %
April	30.1 °C	185 mm	88 %
May	29.2 °C	67 mm	78 %
June	27.9 °C	3 mm	65 %
July	27.3 °C	2 mm	65 %
August	26.9 °C	5 mm	73 %
September	27.9 °C	13 mm	80 %
October	29.4 °C	63 mm	85 %
November	29.8 °C	152 mm	86 %
December	29.5 °C	172 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	29.7 °C	22.9 °C	25.5 °C	36.4 °C	20.1 °C	31	12
February	30.3 °C	23.2 °C	25.9 °C	34.7 °C	20.2 °C	28	17
March	30.6 °C	23.5 °C	26.2 °C	35.9 °C	20.3 °C	31	22
April	30.1 °C	23.5 °C	25.9 °C	34.7 °C	19.9 °C	30	17
May	29.2 °C	22.8 °C	25.3 °C	33.4 °C	18.5 °C	31	8
June	27.9 °C	20.0 °C	23.3 °C	32.2 °C	15.5 °C	29	3
July	27.3 °C	18.4 °C	22.2 °C	32.0 °C	14.2 °C	28	2
August	26.9 °C	18.8 °C	22.4 °C	32.2 °C	14.7 °C	28	1
September	27.9 °C	20.3 °C	23.6 °C	33.7 °C	17.4 °C	30	3
October	29.4 °C	22.1 °C	25.0 °C	34.7 °C	19.3 °C	31	10
November	29.8 °C	22.8 °C	25.4 °C	33.7 °C	18.8 °C	30	14
December	29.5 °C	22.8 °C	25.3 °C	33.1 °C	19.5 °C	31	11

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	146 mm	20	12 h/day	88 %	86 %	9.8 km/h
February	122 mm	18	12 h/day	88 %	86 %	10 km/h
March	135 mm	18	12 h/day	87 %	86 %	9.9 km/h
April	185 mm	21	12 h/day	88 %	88 %	8.9 km/h
May	67 mm	11	12 h/day	78 %	86 %	8.8 km/h
June	3 mm	0	12 h/day	65 %	81 %	9.8 km/h
July	2 mm	0	12 h/day	65 %	78 %	11 km/h
August	5 mm	1	12 h/day	73 %	79 %	11 km/h
September	13 mm	3	12 h/day	80 %	79 %	11 km/h
October	63 mm	11	12 h/day	85 %	80 %	11 km/h
November	152 mm	22	12 h/day	86 %	85 %	10 km/h
December	172 mm	22	12 h/day	88 %	87 %	9.6 km/h

How Matadi 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
Matadi	31 °C	18 °C	1,065 mm	359
Boma · Democratic Republic of the Congo	31 °C	19 °C	1,150 mm	363
Soyo · Angola	29 °C	20 °C	780 mm	266
Cabinda · Angola	29 °C	20 °C	1,267 mm	298
Pointe-Noire · Republic of the Congo	29 °C	20 °C	1,446 mm	327
Uíge · Angola	30 °C	16 °C	1,921 mm	345
Kinshasa · Democratic Republic of the Congo	31 °C	20 °C	1,074 mm	365

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Matadi’s climate

When is the best time to visit Matadi?

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, March is the warmest month and July the driest. The month-by-month table above has the full picture.

How hot does Matadi get?

In March, the warmest month, daily highs average 31 °C. About 120 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 18 °C in July, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Matadi?

April, averaging 185 mm over 21 days with rain. The driest month is July with 2 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,065 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 Matadi 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
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.