Uvira climate

Name: Uvira
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Uvira is warmest in September, with average highs of 28 °C, and coldest in January, when nights average 22 °C. December is the wettest month (85 mm) and July the driest (2.4 mm). Figures are 1991–2020 climate normals.

Across a full year Uvira averages 499 mm of rain and 350 days above 25 °C.

Democratic Republic of the Congo · population 407,092 · 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 28 °C
Coldest month January 22 °C
Driest month July 2 mm
Wettest month December 85 mm
Least cloud July 54 % cloud
Hottest on record February 34 °C
Coldest on record July 17 °C

What to expectUvira through the year

Uvira changes little through the year. Average daily highs stay between 27 and 28 °C, so no month stands out as a season in the way it would further from the equator.

Counted across a normal year, 350 days a year reach 25 °C, 7 of them reach 30 °C. The warmest reading in the 1991–2020 record is 34 °C, in February.

Rain is strongly seasonal. December averages 85 mm against 2 mm in July — 35 times as much. Planning around the dry months matters more here than planning around temperature.

Month by month

Month	Avg high	Rainfall	Cloud
January	27.4 °C	60 mm	81 %
February	27.9 °C	47 mm	81 %
March	27.7 °C	58 mm	81 %
April	27.0 °C	83 mm	83 %
May	27.0 °C	67 mm	70 %
June	26.8 °C	12 mm	60 %
July	26.6 °C	2 mm	54 %
August	27.3 °C	3 mm	57 %
September	28.3 °C	8 mm	64 %
October	27.9 °C	30 mm	81 %
November	27.1 °C	45 mm	86 %
December	27.0 °C	85 mm	83 %

Temperature month by month

Month	Avg high	Avg low	Mean	Record high	Record low	Days above 25 °C	Days above 30 °C
January	27.4 °C	22.4 °C	24.8 °C	33.0 °C	19.2 °C	29	1
February	27.9 °C	22.8 °C	25.2 °C	34.4 °C	19.1 °C	27	1
March	27.7 °C	23.0 °C	25.3 °C	32.3 °C	18.8 °C	30	1
April	27.0 °C	22.8 °C	24.8 °C	29.9 °C	19.1 °C	28	0
May	27.0 °C	22.7 °C	24.8 °C	29.6 °C	17.4 °C	30	0
June	26.8 °C	22.6 °C	24.6 °C	29.5 °C	17.3 °C	29	0
July	26.6 °C	22.5 °C	24.5 °C	29.2 °C	16.5 °C	29	0
August	27.3 °C	22.9 °C	25.2 °C	30.2 °C	17.6 °C	31	0
September	28.3 °C	23.6 °C	25.9 °C	32.7 °C	19.2 °C	30	2
October	27.9 °C	23.3 °C	25.6 °C	31.7 °C	18.8 °C	30	1
November	27.1 °C	22.7 °C	24.9 °C	30.9 °C	19.0 °C	28	0
December	27.0 °C	22.4 °C	24.6 °C	31.3 °C	19.0 °C	28	1

Rain, sun and wind month by month

Month	Rainfall	Wet days	Daylight	Cloud cover	Humidity	Wind
January	60 mm	9	12 h/day	81 %	69 %	9.8 km/h
February	47 mm	7	12 h/day	81 %	67 %	10 km/h
March	58 mm	7	12 h/day	81 %	66 %	10 km/h
April	83 mm	8	12 h/day	83 %	67 %	10 km/h
May	67 mm	6	12 h/day	70 %	66 %	11 km/h
June	12 mm	2	12 h/day	60 %	63 %	13 km/h
July	2 mm	1	12 h/day	54 %	60 %	14 km/h
August	3 mm	1	12 h/day	57 %	58 %	14 km/h
September	8 mm	1	12 h/day	64 %	57 %	14 km/h
October	30 mm	5	12 h/day	81 %	60 %	13 km/h
November	45 mm	6	12 h/day	86 %	65 %	11 km/h
December	85 mm	9	12 h/day	83 %	68 %	10 km/h

How Uvira 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
Uvira	28 °C	22 °C	499 mm	350
Bujumbura · Burundi	28 °C	22 °C	475 mm	344
Gitega · Burundi	26 °C	14 °C	758 mm	70
Bukavu · Democratic Republic of the Congo	26 °C	16 °C	1,961 mm	109
Kasulu · Tanzania	30 °C	16 °C	1,540 mm	291
Kigoma · Tanzania	28 °C	22 °C	1,808 mm	333
Gisenyi · Rwanda	23 °C	18 °C	2,467 mm	9

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

QuestionsCommon questions about Uvira’s climate

When is the best time to visit Uvira?

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

In September, the warmest month, daily highs average 28 °C. About 7 days a year pass 30 °C. The highest value in the 1991–2020 record is 34 °C.

How cold does it get in winter?

Nights average 22 °C in January, the coldest month. Freezing nights are not part of a normal year here.

Which month is wettest in Uvira?

December, averaging 85 mm over 9 days with rain. The driest month is July with 2 mm. The year as a whole averages 499 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 Uvira 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: -3.395°, 29.138° (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.