Katanda, Democratic Republic of the Congo Climate
The warmest month is August, with an average high of 28°C; the coldest is July, with an average low of 16°C. A normal year brings 1285 mm of precipitation.
Temperature through the year
The normal daily high and low. The line marks today.
- Normal low
- Normal high
- Reanalysis extreme high
- Reanalysis extreme low
Normals for Sep 25
- Normal high
- 27°C
- Normal low
- 16°C
- Reanalysis high
- 31°Cin 1993
- Reanalysis low
- 14°Cin 1996
- Chance of a wet day
- 67%
- Daylight
- 12 h 07 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 | Warmest | Coldest | Precipitation | Wet days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 26°C | 16°C | 34°C (1992) | 13°C (2015) | 90 mm | 18.6 |
| February | 27°C | 17°C | 34°C (2006) | 13°C (2012) | 85 mm | 14.1 |
| March | 28°C | 17°C | 35°C (1992) | 14°C (2014) | 136 mm | 21.7 |
| April | 27°C | 17°C | 32°C (1994) | 14°C (1997) | 126 mm | 24.0 |
| May | 26°C | 16°C | 32°C (2002) | 12°C (1997) | 115 mm | 21.7 |
| June | 27°C | 16°C | 32°C (1999) | 13°C (2018) | 54 mm | 12.0 |
| July | 28°C | 16°C | 33°C (2002) | 11°C (2018) | 43 mm | 9.3 |
| August | 28°C | 16°C | 33°C (1992) | 12°C (2020) | 84 mm | 15.5 |
| September | 28°C | 16°C | 33°C (1993) | 13°C (1996) | 123 mm | 21.0 |
| October | 26°C | 16°C | 33°C (2006) | 14°C (2013) | 155 mm | 24.8 |
| November | 25°C | 16°C | 31°C (1999) | 14°C (2004) | 165 mm | 27.0 |
| December | 25°C | 16°C | 31°C (1991) | 13°C (1996) | 109 mm | 21.7 |
| Year | 27°C | 16°C | 1285 mm | 231 |
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.
1285 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 Katanda.
Days with a mean dew point of 18°C or more are rare here in every month.
| Month | Dew point | Humidity | Dry | Comfortable | Humid | Muggy | Oppressive | Miserable |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 15°C | 73% | 4% | 52% | 44% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| February | 15°C | 70% | 7% | 56% | 37% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| March | 16°C | 72% | 2% | 38% | 60% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| April | 16°C | 76% | 0% | 20% | 79% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| May | 16°C | 76% | 1% | 28% | 71% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| June | 14°C | 70% | 14% | 64% | 23% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| July | 13°C | 63% | 45% | 52% | 4% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| August | 14°C | 65% | 26% | 66% | 8% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| September | 15°C | 70% | 9% | 60% | 30% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| October | 16°C | 76% | 1% | 37% | 61% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| November | 16°C | 79% | 0% | 25% | 75% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| December | 16°C | 77% | 1% | 38% | 61% | 0% | 0% | 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 July, with the sky 64 percent covered on average; the cloudiest is April, at 82 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 February, averaging 7.9 km/h at 10 meters (33 feet) above the ground.
Daylight and sunshine
The longest day is Jan 7, with 12 h 11 min of daylight; the shortest is May 8, with 12 h 04 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 Katanda 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.
Where no station record is within reach, the extremes shown are the highest and lowest the reanalysis produced for the date in 1991-2020, not measured records.
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
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.