Mbuji-Mayi climate

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Mbuji-Mayi is warmest in July, with average highs of 33 °C, and coldest in July, when nights average 19 °C. November is the wettest month (174 mm) and July the driest (2.4 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Mbuji-Mayi averages 1,239 mm of rain and 362 days above 25 °C.

Democratic Republic of the Congo · population 2,101,332 · 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 33 °C
Coldest month July 19 °C
Driest month July 2 mm
Wettest month November 174 mm
Least cloud July 37 % cloud
Hottest on record September 38 °C
Coldest on record June 13 °C

What to expectMbuji-Mayi through the year

Mbuji-Mayi changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 33 and 33 °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, 233 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °C, in September.

Rain is strongly seasonal. November averages 174 mm against 2 mm in July — 73 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	29.6 °C	136 mm	88 %
February	30.4 °C	126 mm	87 %
March	30.4 °C	172 mm	85 %
April	30.4 °C	133 mm	79 %
May	31.7 °C	35 mm	59 %
June	32.6 °C	6 mm	42 %
July	33.2 °C	2 mm	37 %
August	32.5 °C	29 mm	51 %
September	30.7 °C	104 mm	68 %
October	29.7 °C	155 mm	81 %
November	29.3 °C	174 mm	87 %
December	29.2 °C	166 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	29.6 °C	20.8 °C	24.4 °C	33.9 °C	17.4 °C	30	14
February	30.4 °C	21.0 °C	24.9 °C	36.1 °C	18.3 °C	28	18
March	30.4 °C	21.1 °C	24.9 °C	36.0 °C	18.8 °C	31	19
April	30.4 °C	21.0 °C	24.9 °C	35.8 °C	17.6 °C	30	19
May	31.7 °C	20.7 °C	25.5 °C	36.5 °C	16.5 °C	31	25
June	32.6 °C	19.1 °C	25.5 °C	36.5 °C	13.4 °C	30	27
July	33.2 °C	18.9 °C	25.8 °C	36.6 °C	15.1 °C	31	30
August	32.5 °C	20.4 °C	25.9 °C	37.4 °C	15.1 °C	31	28
September	30.7 °C	20.7 °C	24.9 °C	37.6 °C	17.8 °C	30	19
October	29.7 °C	20.6 °C	24.3 °C	35.7 °C	18.3 °C	31	13
November	29.3 °C	20.6 °C	24.1 °C	33.6 °C	18.8 °C	30	11
December	29.2 °C	20.6 °C	24.1 °C	33.3 °C	18.4 °C	30	10

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	136 mm	21	12 h/day	88 %	83 %	8.4 km/h
February	126 mm	19	12 h/day	87 %	82 %	8.6 km/h
March	172 mm	23	12 h/day	85 %	83 %	8.2 km/h
April	133 mm	20	12 h/day	79 %	83 %	8.9 km/h
May	35 mm	6	12 h/day	59 %	73 %	9.3 km/h
June	6 mm	1	12 h/day	42 %	57 %	9.5 km/h
July	2 mm	1	12 h/day	37 %	48 %	9.8 km/h
August	29 mm	6	12 h/day	51 %	63 %	9.8 km/h
September	104 mm	16	12 h/day	68 %	79 %	9.4 km/h
October	155 mm	23	12 h/day	81 %	84 %	8.6 km/h
November	174 mm	25	12 h/day	87 %	85 %	8.1 km/h
December	166 mm	24	12 h/day	88 %	85 %	8.1 km/h

How Mbuji-Mayi 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
Mbuji-Mayi	33 °C	19 °C	1,239 mm	362
Gandajika · Democratic Republic of the Congo	32 °C	19 °C	1,198 mm	360
Mwene-Ditu · Democratic Republic of the Congo	31 °C	18 °C	1,347 mm	351
Kabinda · Democratic Republic of the Congo	32 °C	19 °C	1,571 mm	352
Kananga · Democratic Republic of the Congo	32 °C	19 °C	1,386 mm	356
Tshikapa · Democratic Republic of the Congo	33 °C	20 °C	1,217 mm	363
Kamina · Democratic Republic of the Congo	31 °C	17 °C	1,233 mm	337

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Mbuji-Mayi.

QuestionsCommon questions about Mbuji-Mayi’s climate

When is the best time to visit Mbuji-Mayi?

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 Mbuji-Mayi get?

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 33 °C. About 233 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 38 °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 Mbuji-Mayi?

November, averaging 174 mm over 25 days with rain. The driest month is July with 2 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,239 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 Mbuji-Mayi 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: -6.136°, 23.590° (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.