Mbuji-Mayi, Democratic Republic of the Congo Climate
The warmest month is August, with an average high of 34°C; the coldest is June, with an average low of 18°C. A normal year brings 1322 mm of precipitation.
Temperature through the year
The normal daily high and low and the record for every date at Mbuji-Mayi, since 1980. The line marks today.
- Normal low
- Normal high
- Record high
- Record low
Normals for Sep 27
- Normal high
- 31°C
- Normal low
- 22°C
- Chance of a wet day
- 62%
- Daylight
- 12 h 08 min
Month by month
Averages for 1991-2020. Wet days have at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis. Each month links to its own page.
| Month | Avg high | Avg low | Record high | Record low | Precipitation | Wet days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 29°C | 21°C | 35°C (2013) | 19°C (1983) | 158 mm | 21.7 |
| February | 29°C | 21°C | 34°C (2020) | 19°C (1988) | 158 mm | 19.8 |
| March | 30°C | 22°C | 33°C (2020) | 18°C (2017) | 161 mm | 21.7 |
| April | 29°C | 21°C | 34°C (2011) | 20°C (1988) | 120 mm | 18.0 |
| May | 31°C | 20°C | 36°C (2014) | 20°C (1981) | 37 mm | 9.3 |
| June | 32°C | 18°C | 35°C (1981) | 17°C (2016) | 9 mm | 3.0 |
| July | 33°C | 18°C | 34°C (2010) | 17°C (1981) | 6 mm | 3.1 |
| August | 34°C | 21°C | 36°C (2021) | 19°C (2016) | 50 mm | 9.3 |
| September | 32°C | 22°C | 34°C (2018) | 18°C (2016) | 111 mm | 18.0 |
| October | 30°C | 21°C | 37°C (2018) | 18°C (1982) | 146 mm | 21.7 |
| November | 28°C | 21°C | 33°C (2018) | 21°C (1982) | 192 mm | 21.0 |
| December | 28°C | 21°C | 32°C (2019) | 20°C (2012) | 174 mm | 24.8 |
| Year | 30°C | 21°C | 1322 mm | 191 |
Precipitation
Rain and melted snow together. The chance of a wet day is the share of days with at least 1 mm of precipitation in the reanalysis.
1322 mm in a normal year, most in November.
Chance of a wet day
- Chance of a wet day
Humidity and comfort
NASA POWER reanalysis, 1991-2020, for the grid cell around Mbuji-Mayi.
The muggiest month is November, when 99 percent of days are muggy or worse, with a mean dew point of 18°C or more.
| Month | Dew point | Humidity | Dry | Comfortable | Humid | Muggy | Oppressive | Miserable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 21°C | 79% | 0% | 0% | 4% | 65% | 32% | 0% |
| February | 21°C | 77% | 0% | 0% | 5% | 57% | 38% | 0% |
| March | 21°C | 78% | 0% | 0% | 2% | 45% | 52% | 0% |
| April | 21°C | 80% | 0% | 0% | 4% | 39% | 57% | 0% |
| May | 19°C | 70% | 2% | 11% | 22% | 49% | 16% | 0% |
| June | 14°C | 54% | 40% | 32% | 18% | 10% | 0% | 0% |
| July | 11°C | 44% | 70% | 22% | 8% | 1% | 0% | 0% |
| August | 14°C | 48% | 37% | 24% | 24% | 15% | 0% | 0% |
| September | 19°C | 66% | 3% | 6% | 20% | 66% | 5% | 0% |
| October | 20°C | 77% | 0% | 0% | 5% | 65% | 29% | 0% |
| November | 21°C | 81% | 0% | 0% | 1% | 53% | 46% | 0% |
| December | 21°C | 81% | 0% | 0% | 4% | 56% | 40% | 0% |
Comfort is judged by the day's mean dew point: dry below 13°C, comfortable to 16°C, humid to 18°C, muggy to 21°C, oppressive to 24°C, miserable above.
Clouds
Average share of the sky covered, from satellite (CERES and GEWEX SRB) by way of NASA POWER, 1991-2020.
The clearest month is June, with the sky 45 percent covered on average; the cloudiest is December, at 84 percent.
Wind
The mean wind speed over the whole day, from the MERRA-2 reanalysis by way of NASA POWER. Gusts run well above it.
The windiest month is July, averaging 10.8 km/h at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.
Daylight and sunshine
The longest day is Jan 2, with 12 h 29 min of daylight; the shortest is Jun 8, with 11 h 46 min.
- Day length
Solar energy
Average daily sunshine reaching the ground on a flat surface, in kilowatt-hours per square meter, clouds included.
Month pages
The weather in Mbuji-Mayi in each month, day by day.
What this means
A normal is the average of the thirty years 1991 to 2020, the period the World Meteorological Organization and NOAA use for comparison. It is an average, not a forecast: most days depart from it, and some by a long way.
A record is the highest or lowest value on the date in every year the station has reported, back to 1980. It rests on one station, so a neighbor a few miles away can hold different ones.
Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine come from a reanalysis: a weather model run over the past with every observation fed in, averaged over a grid cell about 50 km across. It is consistent everywhere on Earth; it smooths local detail such as a lake shore or a valley.
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Sources
Records: NOAA GHCN-Daily, station CGM00064247, every year on file, quality-flagged values removed. Cloud, humidity, wind and sunshine, and temperature and precipitation: NASA POWER (MERRA-2, CERES and GEWEX SRB), 1991-2020. The data was obtained from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center's Prediction Of Worldwide Energy Resources (POWER) project funded through the NASA Earth Science Division: POWER Daily API v2, accessed 2026-09-24. Sun and moon: computed with the NOAA solar equations and Meeus.