Tshikapa climate

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Tshikapa is warmest in July, with average highs of 33 °C, and coldest in June, when nights average 20 °C. November is the wettest month (175 mm) and July the driest (1.8 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Tshikapa averages 1,217 mm of rain and 363 days above 25 °C.

Democratic Republic of the Congo · population 634,529 · 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 June 20 °C
Driest month July 2 mm
Wettest month November 175 mm
Least cloud July 36 % cloud
Hottest on record August 37 °C
Coldest on record June 13 °C

What to expectTshikapa through the year

Tshikapa 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, 363 days a year reach 25 °C, 264 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C, in August.

Rain is strongly seasonal. November averages 175 mm against 2 mm in July — 100 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	30.2 °C	139 mm	88 %
February	30.8 °C	125 mm	87 %
March	30.7 °C	159 mm	87 %
April	30.4 °C	144 mm	81 %
May	31.7 °C	37 mm	58 %
June	32.8 °C	6 mm	37 %
July	33.5 °C	2 mm	36 %
August	33.0 °C	32 mm	51 %
September	31.6 °C	90 mm	66 %
October	30.6 °C	136 mm	79 %
November	29.7 °C	175 mm	86 %
December	29.6 °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	30.2 °C	21.6 °C	25.2 °C	35.0 °C	19.4 °C	31	18
February	30.8 °C	21.9 °C	25.6 °C	35.9 °C	19.3 °C	28	19
March	30.7 °C	21.9 °C	25.5 °C	35.8 °C	19.8 °C	31	20
April	30.4 °C	21.8 °C	25.4 °C	35.4 °C	19.3 °C	30	19
May	31.7 °C	21.4 °C	25.9 °C	35.8 °C	16.8 °C	31	26
June	32.8 °C	19.6 °C	25.8 °C	36.3 °C	12.6 °C	30	29
July	33.5 °C	19.6 °C	26.3 °C	36.8 °C	13.2 °C	31	31
August	33.0 °C	21.5 °C	26.7 °C	37.1 °C	14.8 °C	31	29
September	31.6 °C	21.7 °C	25.9 °C	36.6 °C	18.9 °C	30	24
October	30.6 °C	21.6 °C	25.2 °C	36.3 °C	19.5 °C	31	20
November	29.7 °C	21.4 °C	24.8 °C	34.8 °C	18.6 °C	30	14
December	29.6 °C	21.5 °C	24.8 °C	33.7 °C	19.5 °C	31	14

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	139 mm	20	12 h/day	88 %	84 %	7.8 km/h
February	125 mm	18	12 h/day	87 %	83 %	7.9 km/h
March	159 mm	22	12 h/day	87 %	85 %	7.8 km/h
April	144 mm	20	12 h/day	81 %	85 %	8.2 km/h
May	37 mm	6	12 h/day	58 %	76 %	9.0 km/h
June	6 mm	1	12 h/day	37 %	60 %	10 km/h
July	2 mm	0	12 h/day	36 %	52 %	10 km/h
August	32 mm	6	12 h/day	51 %	64 %	10 km/h
September	90 mm	15	12 h/day	66 %	78 %	9.6 km/h
October	136 mm	22	12 h/day	79 %	83 %	8.3 km/h
November	175 mm	24	12 h/day	86 %	86 %	7.4 km/h
December	172 mm	23	12 h/day	88 %	86 %	7.4 km/h

How Tshikapa 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
Tshikapa	33 °C	20 °C	1,217 mm	363
Chitato · Angola	33 °C	18 °C	1,442 mm	356
Dundo · Angola	34 °C	18 °C	1,437 mm	359
Kananga · Democratic Republic of the Congo	32 °C	19 °C	1,386 mm	356
Kikwit · Democratic Republic of the Congo	32 °C	20 °C	1,272 mm	363
Mwene-Ditu · Democratic Republic of the Congo	31 °C	18 °C	1,347 mm	351
Mbuji-Mayi · Democratic Republic of the Congo	33 °C	19 °C	1,239 mm	362

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Tshikapa’s climate

When is the best time to visit Tshikapa?

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 Tshikapa get?

In July, the warmest month, daily highs average 33 °C. About 264 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 37 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 20 °C in June, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Tshikapa?

November, averaging 175 mm over 24 days with rain. The driest month is July with 2 mm. The year as a whole averages 1,217 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 Tshikapa 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: -6.416°, 20.800° (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.