Mwene-Ditu climate

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Mwene-Ditu is warmest in July, with average highs of 31 °C, and coldest in July, when nights average 18 °C. November is the wettest month (191 mm) and July the driest (1.4 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Mwene-Ditu averages 1,347 mm of rain and 351 days above 25 °C.

Democratic Republic of the Congo · population 189,177 · 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 31 °C
Coldest month July 18 °C
Driest month July 1 mm
Wettest month November 191 mm
Least cloud July 33 % cloud
Hottest on record September 36 °C
Coldest on record July 14 °C

What to expectMwene-Ditu through the year

Mwene-Ditu changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 31 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, 351 days a year reach 25 °C, 128 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 36 °C, in September.

Rain is strongly seasonal. November averages 191 mm against 1 mm in July — 133 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	27.7 °C	176 mm	90 %
February	28.5 °C	159 mm	88 %
March	28.5 °C	181 mm	86 %
April	28.7 °C	128 mm	76 %
May	30.1 °C	25 mm	55 %
June	30.9 °C	3 mm	38 %
July	31.4 °C	1 mm	33 %
August	30.9 °C	23 mm	48 %
September	29.4 °C	102 mm	65 %
October	28.1 °C	166 mm	81 %
November	27.7 °C	191 mm	87 %
December	27.4 °C	191 mm	90 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	27.7 °C	19.0 °C	22.5 °C	32.1 °C	16.3 °C	28	3
February	28.5 °C	19.3 °C	22.9 °C	33.6 °C	17.0 °C	27	6
March	28.5 °C	19.3 °C	23.0 °C	33.4 °C	16.7 °C	29	7
April	28.7 °C	19.3 °C	23.2 °C	32.9 °C	17.3 °C	29	6
May	30.1 °C	19.2 °C	24.1 °C	34.2 °C	15.9 °C	31	16
June	30.9 °C	18.1 °C	24.1 °C	33.8 °C	13.7 °C	30	23
July	31.4 °C	18.0 °C	24.4 °C	34.6 °C	13.5 °C	31	27
August	30.9 °C	19.0 °C	24.5 °C	35.6 °C	15.3 °C	31	22
September	29.4 °C	19.2 °C	23.4 °C	35.8 °C	16.5 °C	30	12
October	28.1 °C	19.0 °C	22.6 °C	33.4 °C	17.1 °C	29	4
November	27.7 °C	18.8 °C	22.3 °C	31.7 °C	17.1 °C	28	2
December	27.4 °C	18.9 °C	22.3 °C	32.1 °C	16.8 °C	28	1

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	176 mm	25	12 h/day	90 %	84 %	8.4 km/h
February	159 mm	22	12 h/day	88 %	83 %	8.6 km/h
March	181 mm	23	12 h/day	86 %	83 %	8.4 km/h
April	128 mm	19	12 h/day	76 %	80 %	9.4 km/h
May	25 mm	5	12 h/day	55 %	64 %	10 km/h
June	3 mm	1	12 h/day	38 %	47 %	11 km/h
July	1 mm	0	12 h/day	33 %	40 %	11 km/h
August	23 mm	5	12 h/day	48 %	57 %	11 km/h
September	102 mm	17	12 h/day	65 %	76 %	10 km/h
October	166 mm	24	12 h/day	81 %	84 %	8.9 km/h
November	191 mm	26	12 h/day	87 %	85 %	8.1 km/h
December	191 mm	26	13 h/day	90 %	85 %	8.1 km/h

How Mwene-Ditu 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
Mwene-Ditu	31 °C	18 °C	1,347 mm	351
Gandajika · Democratic Republic of the Congo	32 °C	19 °C	1,198 mm	360
Mbuji-Mayi · Democratic Republic of the Congo	33 °C	19 °C	1,239 mm	362
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
Kamina · Democratic Republic of the Congo	31 °C	17 °C	1,233 mm	337
Dundo · Angola	34 °C	18 °C	1,437 mm	359

Planning a trip? See the best time to visit Mwene-Ditu.

QuestionsCommon questions about Mwene-Ditu’s climate

When is the best time to visit Mwene-Ditu?

That depends on what you want, so the honest answer is a comparison rather than a single month. January, 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 Mwene-Ditu get?

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 31 °C. About 128 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 Mwene-Ditu?

November, averaging 191 mm over 26 days with rain. The driest month is July with 1 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,347 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 Mwene-Ditu 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: -7.009°, 23.453° (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.