Ideal weather days in Kinshasa
The best time to visit Kinshasa for warm, dry weather is June, July and August, with 28 to 31 such days a month.
How many days here suit you?
Set your ideal day. Each day measured at Kinshasa's weather station in 2023–2025 is checked against it.
They're most common in June, July and August.
This station doesn't record cloud cover, so the sky setting is left out here.
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Your ideal days in Kinshasa, month by month
Why the other days don't count
- Too hot99
- Too wet86
- Too cold0
- Too windy0
A day can fail more than one test.
Warm and dry, beach and mild days
With the Warm & dry preset (a high of 18–33 °C, no more than 1 mm of rain, wind under 20 km/h), Kinshasa averaged 200 days a year in 2023–2025. Every number here is counted from real measured days in Republic of the Congo, not from climate averages.
Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in August (up to 18 a month, 108 a year). Mild, still days (16–26 °C, light wind) are most common in (up to 4 a month, 9 a year).
What spoils the other days
Most of the days that don't count are too hot (over 33 °C): 99 a year, mostly in February to May and September to October. Another 86 are wet (more than 1 mm of rain), mostly in October to May. A day can fail more than one test.
Kinshasa weather, month by month
| Month | Typical high | Rain days | Windy days | Clear days | Warm & dry days |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 32 °C 90 °F | 10 | 0 | 2 | 16 of 31 |
| February | 33 °C 91 °F | 8 | 0 | 1 | 11 of 28 |
| March | 33 °C 91 °F | 12 | 0 | 2 | 8 of 31 |
| April | 33 °C 91 °F | 13 | 0 | 1 | 7 of 30 |
| May | 33 °C 91 °F | 10 | 0 | 2 | 13 of 31 |
| June | 30 °C 85 °F | 2 | 0 | 2 | 28 of 30 |
| July | 29 °C 84 °F | 0 | 0 | 6 | 31 of 31 |
| August | 31 °C 87 °F | 0 | 0 | 9 | 29 of 31 |
| September | 33 °C 91 °F | 3 | 0 | 4 | 18 of 30 |
| October | 33 °C 91 °F | 9 | 0 | 0 | 13 of 31 |
| November | 32 °C 90 °F | 15 | 0 | 0 | 12 of 30 |
| December | 33 °C 91 °F | 11 | 0 | 1 | 16 of 31 |
| Year | 94 | 0 | 30 | 200 of 365 |
Typical high is the median daily maximum. A rain day has 1 mm or more; a windy day a mean wind above 20 km/h; a clear day a daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average (9:00–17:00). Days are averaged over 2023–2025 and scaled to the length of each month.
Year by year
- 2023 181 warm, dry days
- 2024 213 warm, dry days
- 2025 incomplete (8 of 12 months)
Questions
When is the best time to visit Kinshasa for good weather?
The best time to visit Kinshasa for warm, dry weather is June, July and August, with 28 to 31 such days a month. Beach days (a high of 26–35 °C, almost no rain, mostly sunny) are most common in August (up to 18 a month, 108 a year). Counted from measured days at Maya Maya station, 2023–2025.
Does it rain a lot in Kinshasa?
On average 94 days a year had 1 mm of rain or more in 2023–2025. The wettest month was November (15 rain days), the driest July (0).
How many sunny days does Kinshasa get a year?
About 30 days a year had mostly clear skies (daytime cloud cover of 2/8 or less on average, 9:00–17:00), most of them in August (9).
How warm does Kinshasa get?
The median daily high ranged from 29 °C (84 °F) in July to 33 °C (91 °F) in February.
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Source: Maya Maya weather station (64450099999), 10 km from the centre of Kinshasa, 319 m above sea level. Daily records from NOAA's Global Surface Summary of the Day, 2023–2025; 84% of days have a complete record. A single station may not represent every part of a city, and three years is a short record.