Butembo climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Butembo?

Butembo has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 19.4 °C and it receives 1,924 mm of precipitation per year.

Q: What is the hottest day ever recorded in Butembo?

The hottest day measured in Butembo between 1940 and 2025 was 21 February 2005, reaching 34.4 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Butembo?

The coldest day measured in Butembo between 1940 and 2025 was 5 February 1957, at 9.6 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Butembo?

Almost never: Butembo sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Q: Has the climate of Butembo warmed?

Yes: Butembo warmed by +1.9 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Butembo?

The wettest day measured in Butembo between 1940 and 2025 was 26 March 1967, with 109 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Butembo?

The windiest day measured in Butembo between 1940 and 2025 was 14 March 1992, with winds reaching 20.5 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Butembo?

The warmest month in Butembo is February (20.4 °C on average); the coldest is November (18.8 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Butembo?

Butembo receives on average 1,924 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 234 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Butembo?

Butembo gets on average 9.6 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,504 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Butembo (Democratic Republic of Congo) has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 19.4 °C and it receives 1,924 mm of precipitation per year.

These figures are normals computed over 86 complete calendar years, from 1940 to 2025, using ERA5 reanalysis data from the Copernicus programme.

The warmest month is February (20.4 °C on average) and the coldest is November (18.8 °C). Rainfall peaks in October.

Butembo averages 0 frost days, 5 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 234 rainy days per year.

Butembo has warmed by +1.9 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.22 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The hottest day of the period reached 34.4 °C (on 21 February 2005) and the coldest 9.6 °C (on 5 February 1957).

Data from ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus Climate Change Service), redistributed under a CC-BY 4.0 licence. Normals are recomputed whenever the archive is updated.

Climate normals · ERA5

ButemboNorth Kivu

coords: 0.14°, 29.29°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

AfTropical rainforestWarmest monthFebruaryColdest monthNovemberWettest monthOctoberDriest monthJanuary

Mean daily temperature

19.4°C

Average daily high

25.1°C

Average daily low

15.6°C

Annual rainfall

1,924mm

Sunshine / day

9.6h

Mean relative humidity

83%

Average peak wind

7.5km/h

Seasonal range

1.6°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

5 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

234 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.0 cm

Average feels-like high

27.7 °C

Average feels-like low

16.6 °C

Average peak gust

28.1 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

0 d/yr

Solar radiation

17.7 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+1.9 °C

since 1940

+0.2 °C per decade · r² = 0.72 · p = < 0.001

19402025

Trend fitted by linear regression (ordinary least squares) on annual means. A trend is shown only when it is statistically significant (p < 0.05).

A climograph overlays rainfall (bars) and temperature (line): the standard reading in climatology, where you can see at a glance whether the warm season is also the dry one.

Records for the period

Hottest day

34.4 °C

21 February 2005

Coldest day

9.6 °C

5 February 1957

Wettest day

109 mm

26 March 1967

Windiest day

20.5 km/h

14 March 1992

Strongest gust

67.7 km/h

3 March 2009

Hottest feels-like

36.0 °C

25 February 2005

Coldest feels-like

8.6 °C

5 February 1957

Sunniest day

12.0 h

21 April 1940

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days
2025	31.7 °C1 March 2025	13.5 °C31 July 2025	20.4 °C	1,838 mm	12
2024	32.6 °C18 March 2024	12.8 °C8 December 2024	21.0 °C	2,320 mm	17
2023	30.6 °C20 February 2023	13.6 °C7 January 2023	20.6 °C	2,011 mm	5
2022	32.3 °C5 March 2022	13.9 °C6 January 2022	20.3 °C	1,707 mm	9
2021	32.0 °C1 March 2021	14.5 °C24 January 2021	20.7 °C	1,739 mm	13
2020	33.3 °C7 March 2020	13.7 °C15 October 2020	20.7 °C	2,262 mm	38
2019	32.1 °C4 February 2019	13.3 °C19 December 2019	20.5 °C	1,865 mm	22
2018	32.2 °C8 February 2018	13.6 °C8 July 2018	20.4 °C	1,581 mm	9
2017	32.3 °C9 February 2017	13.4 °C12 December 2017	20.6 °C	1,519 mm	20
2016	31.3 °C4 February 2016	13.1 °C30 January 2016	20.8 °C	1,619 mm	15
2015	32.0 °C16 March 2015	12.8 °C12 January 2015	20.2 °C	1,939 mm	12
2014	30.5 °C8 March 2014	13.0 °C17 February 2014	20.1 °C	1,596 mm	2
2013	31.3 °C25 February 2013	13.6 °C3 February 2013	19.9 °C	1,827 mm	10
2012	32.4 °C5 February 2012	12.5 °C1 February 2012	19.8 °C	1,729 mm	17
2011	30.8 °C18 February 2011	13.5 °C14 July 2011	19.8 °C	1,614 mm	1
2010	31.8 °C20 April 2010	13.0 °C18 August 2010	20.3 °C	1,716 mm	11
2009	30.0 °C10 March 2009	13.5 °C11 November 2009	20.0 °C	1,688 mm	1
2008	29.5 °C23 December 2008	13.0 °C21 July 2008	19.4 °C	1,602 mm	0
2007	31.0 °C20 February 2007	12.7 °C18 December 2007	19.7 °C	1,589 mm	5
2006	32.0 °C9 February 2006	13.5 °C14 July 2006	19.6 °C	1,917 mm	3
2005	34.4 °C21 February 2005	12.3 °C8 July 2005	20.2 °C	1,685 mm	26
2004	30.0 °C13 February 2004	13.0 °C6 February 2004	20.0 °C	1,643 mm	1
2003	30.5 °C4 February 2003	13.1 °C12 September 2003	19.7 °C	1,722 mm	7
2002	31.6 °C26 February 2002	13.5 °C14 January 2002	19.7 °C	1,764 mm	6
2001	29.7 °C1 February 2001	13.3 °C4 December 2001	19.4 °C	1,704 mm	0
2000	30.1 °C27 February 2000	12.6 °C27 January 2000	19.5 °C	1,194 mm	2
1999	31.8 °C19 February 1999	13.2 °C8 July 1999	19.5 °C	1,644 mm	8
1998	31.1 °C14 March 1998	13.7 °C11 December 1998	20.2 °C	1,785 mm	6
1997	30.1 °C17 February 1997	12.8 °C5 February 1997	19.7 °C	1,768 mm	1
1996	29.2 °C30 March 1996	12.3 °C8 August 1996	19.3 °C	2,314 mm	0
1995	29.9 °C15 March 1995	12.9 °C25 December 1995	19.6 °C	1,895 mm	0
1994	30.2 °C2 March 1994	13.0 °C13 March 1994	19.5 °C	1,937 mm	4
1993	29.7 °C4 March 1993	13.4 °C15 January 1993	19.5 °C	1,749 mm	0
1992	32.1 °C15 March 1992	13.0 °C30 September 1992	19.6 °C	1,742 mm	8
1991	29.1 °C10 March 1991	13.3 °C13 December 1991	19.4 °C	1,946 mm	0
1990	30.6 °C28 January 1990	12.9 °C10 January 1990	19.9 °C	1,748 mm	4
1989	31.4 °C28 February 1989	10.5 °C23 January 1989	19.6 °C	1,805 mm	4
1988	30.7 °C29 February 1988	13.9 °C7 December 1988	19.8 °C	1,815 mm	3
1987	31.2 °C19 May 1987	13.5 °C11 January 1987	20.2 °C	2,015 mm	5
1986	29.9 °C24 February 1986	12.8 °C21 July 1986	19.4 °C	2,340 mm	0
1985	33.1 °C13 March 1985	12.6 °C19 February 1985	19.3 °C	1,762 mm	7
1984	29.3 °C16 February 1984	12.5 °C21 January 1984	19.3 °C	1,880 mm	0
1983	30.3 °C26 March 1983	12.8 °C30 December 1983	19.9 °C	1,887 mm	3
1982	30.3 °C21 February 1982	13.6 °C31 January 1982	19.4 °C	1,947 mm	2
1981	31.1 °C1 March 1981	13.0 °C12 January 1981	19.4 °C	2,207 mm	3
1980	30.8 °C18 March 1980	13.0 °C13 December 1980	19.5 °C	2,030 mm	5
1979	28.6 °C23 March 1979	13.4 °C6 December 1979	19.4 °C	1,923 mm	0
1978	29.4 °C7 February 1978	13.1 °C20 July 1978	19.2 °C	1,962 mm	0
1977	28.8 °C14 May 1977	12.2 °C9 July 1977	19.0 °C	2,332 mm	0
1976	29.7 °C15 March 1976	12.3 °C7 January 1976	18.7 °C	1,957 mm	0
1975	29.5 °C1 May 1975	12.4 °C16 August 1975	18.7 °C	2,265 mm	0
1974	31.4 °C11 February 1974	12.1 °C24 December 1974	18.7 °C	2,320 mm	6
1973	32.7 °C20 February 1973	12.3 °C16 December 1973	19.6 °C	1,654 mm	21
1972	29.7 °C4 April 1972	12.5 °C2 January 1972	19.3 °C	1,841 mm	0
1971	32.0 °C5 March 1971	11.5 °C31 January 1971	18.8 °C	1,835 mm	6
1970	30.4 °C27 February 1970	12.7 °C8 December 1970	19.2 °C	1,921 mm	2
1969	29.1 °C6 April 1969	11.9 °C31 January 1969	19.4 °C	1,740 mm	0
1968	28.4 °C13 April 1968	12.4 °C18 January 1968	18.9 °C	1,768 mm	0
1967	30.1 °C2 March 1967	12.3 °C10 December 1967	18.7 °C	2,299 mm	1
1966	28.7 °C9 May 1966	13.2 °C6 July 1966	19.2 °C	1,776 mm	0
1965	27.6 °C2 August 1965	12.3 °C11 January 1965	18.6 °C	2,186 mm	0
1964	28.3 °C26 March 1964	12.4 °C10 August 1964	18.7 °C	2,243 mm	0
1963	28.3 °C23 March 1963	12.8 °C18 January 1963	18.7 °C	2,193 mm	0
1962	27.2 °C5 February 1962	12.6 °C3 February 1962	18.3 °C	2,654 mm	0
1961	29.1 °C8 March 1961	10.7 °C3 January 1961	18.7 °C	2,159 mm	0
1960	28.9 °C29 March 1960	11.9 °C19 July 1960	18.9 °C	2,254 mm	0
1959	30.3 °C14 March 1959	11.5 °C16 July 1959	18.9 °C	2,059 mm	3
1958	29.6 °C30 March 1958	11.6 °C18 February 1958	19.2 °C	2,127 mm	0
1957	27.8 °C15 March 1957	9.6 °C5 February 1957	18.9 °C	2,054 mm	0
1956	28.8 °C8 March 1956	12.2 °C18 January 1956	18.5 °C	2,159 mm	0
1955	27.6 °C19 February 1955	12.5 °C2 February 1955	18.5 °C	2,202 mm	0
1954	28.1 °C29 March 1954	13.0 °C11 January 1954	18.5 °C	2,380 mm	0
1953	27.4 °C2 October 1953	12.1 °C24 July 1953	18.6 °C	2,744 mm	0
1952	28.1 °C25 January 1952	11.7 °C21 July 1952	18.7 °C	2,477 mm	0
1951	29.3 °C1 March 1951	12.1 °C7 July 1951	18.9 °C	2,296 mm	0
1950	29.2 °C4 March 1950	10.8 °C19 July 1950	18.5 °C	2,290 mm	0
1949	28.9 °C26 February 1949	12.9 °C31 July 1949	18.8 °C	2,069 mm	0
1948	28.2 °C4 June 1948	12.4 °C20 September 1948	18.8 °C	1,984 mm	0
1947	28.6 °C23 February 1947	12.8 °C17 August 1947	19.0 °C	1,879 mm	0
1946	31.0 °C14 February 1946	12.3 °C15 January 1946	19.1 °C	1,818 mm	13
1945	30.6 °C22 February 1945	11.6 °C26 December 1945	18.8 °C	1,575 mm	1
1944	30.8 °C1 March 1944	11.7 °C11 July 1944	19.5 °C	1,380 mm	8
1943	31.2 °C3 March 1943	12.3 °C12 January 1943	19.0 °C	2,211 mm	6
1942	30.8 °C7 February 1942	11.8 °C5 January 1942	19.0 °C	1,464 mm	3
1941	30.4 °C27 March 1941	11.9 °C22 December 1941	19.5 °C	1,351 mm	3
1940	27.6 °C24 January 1940	11.4 °C30 November 1940	18.5 °C	2,019 mm	0

Normals computed over complete calendar years 1940–2025.

A specific year

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Year

Across the whole year

Average daily high

25.7 °C

+0.6 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

12 d/yr

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

1838 mm

-86 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	27.4 °C	+1.6 °C	14 mm	-57 mm
Feb	28.9 °C	+2.1 °C	13 mm	-74 mm
Mar	27.4 °C	+1.1 °C	172 mm	-14 mm
Apr	25.9 °C	+0.2 °C	291 mm	+94 mm
May	25.6 °C	+0.1 °C	161 mm	+10 mm
Jun	25.2 °C	+0.4 °C	99 mm	-30 mm
Jul	24.4 °C	-0.1 °C	156 mm	+6 mm
Aug	24.1 °C	-0.3 °C	239 mm	+51 mm
Sep	25.0 °C	+0.7 °C	255 mm	+42 mm
Oct	24.7 °C	+0.6 °C	231 mm	+1 mm
Nov	25.2 °C	+1.3 °C	107 mm	-97 mm
Dec	24.7 °C	+0.2 °C	101 mm	-19 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

31.7 °C

1 Mar 2025

Coldest day

13.5 °C

31 Jul 2025

Wettest day

68.1 mm

23 Mar 2025

Windiest day

14.0 km/h

31 Aug 2025

Strongest gust

48.2 km/h

8 Sep 2025

Hottest feels-like

34.0 °C

11 Apr 2025

Coldest feels-like

13.9 °C

31 Jul 2025

Sunniest day

12.0 h

22 Apr 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Butembo?

Butembo has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 19.4 °C and it receives 1,924 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Butembo?

The hottest day measured in Butembo between 1940 and 2025 was 21 February 2005, reaching 34.4 °C.

What is the coldest day in Butembo?

The coldest day measured in Butembo between 1940 and 2025 was 5 February 1957, at 9.6 °C.

Does it snow in Butembo?

Almost never: Butembo sees virtually no snow, with about 0 frost days per year.

Has the climate of Butembo warmed?

Yes: Butembo warmed by +1.9 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Butembo?

The wettest day measured in Butembo between 1940 and 2025 was 26 March 1967, with 109 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Butembo?

The windiest day measured in Butembo between 1940 and 2025 was 14 March 1992, with winds reaching 20.5 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Butembo?

The warmest month in Butembo is February (20.4 °C on average); the coldest is November (18.8 °C).

How much does it rain in Butembo?

Butembo receives on average 1,924 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 234 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Butembo?

Butembo gets on average 9.6 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,504 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Are there tropical nights in Butembo?

Almost never: tropical nights (temperature staying above 20 °C) are virtually non-existent in Butembo.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Butembo?

In Butembo, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 36.0 °C on 25 February 2005, and the lowest was 8.6 °C on 5 February 1957.

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