Malaba climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Malaba?

Malaba has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 21.4 °C and it receives 2,301 mm of precipitation per year.

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

The hottest day measured in Malaba between 1940 and 2025 was 25 February 2005, reaching 35.9 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Malaba?

The coldest day measured in Malaba between 1940 and 2025 was 24 December 1966, at 11.2 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Malaba?

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

Q: Has the climate of Malaba warmed?

Yes: Malaba warmed by +2.1 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Malaba?

The wettest day measured in Malaba between 1940 and 2025 was 30 April 2002, with 267 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Malaba?

The windiest day measured in Malaba between 1940 and 2025 was 19 February 1944, with winds reaching 21.1 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Malaba?

The warmest month in Malaba is February (22.3 °C on average); the coldest is July (20.6 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Malaba?

Malaba receives on average 2,301 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 229 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Malaba?

Malaba gets on average 10.1 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,687 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Malaba (Kenya) has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 21.4 °C and it receives 2,301 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 (22.3 °C on average) and the coldest is July (20.6 °C). Rainfall peaks in April.

Malaba averages 0 frost days, 22 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 229 rainy days per year.

Malaba has warmed by +2.1 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.24 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The hottest day of the period reached 35.9 °C (on 25 February 2005) and the coldest 11.2 °C (on 24 December 1966).

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

MalabaBusia County

coords: 0.64°, 34.28°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

AfTropical rainforestWarmest monthFebruaryColdest monthJulyWettest monthAprilDriest monthAugust

Mean daily temperature

21.4°C

Average daily high

26.7°C

Average daily low

16.6°C

Annual rainfall

2,301mm

Sunshine / day

10.1h

Mean relative humidity

76%

Average peak wind

8.6km/h

Seasonal range

1.7°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

22 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

229 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.0 cm

Average feels-like high

29.6 °C

Average feels-like low

17.5 °C

Average peak gust

24.1 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

2 d/yr

Solar radiation

18.3 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+2.1 °C

since 1940

+0.2 °C per decade · r² = 0.71 · 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

35.9 °C

25 February 2005

Coldest day

11.2 °C

24 December 1966

Wettest day

267 mm

30 April 2002

Windiest day

21.1 km/h

19 February 1944

Strongest gust

50.4 km/h

28 February 1943

Hottest feels-like

37.8 °C

23 March 1997

Coldest feels-like

9.4 °C

25 July 1947

Sunniest day

11.9 h

4 March 2025

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days
2025	33.9 °C7 March 2025	14.7 °C23 November 2025	22.4 °C	2,216 mm	45
2024	32.5 °C13 March 2024	13.8 °C29 December 2024	22.8 °C	2,811 mm	34
2023	33.7 °C8 March 2023	13.4 °C15 January 2023	22.6 °C	3,269 mm	46
2022	32.8 °C6 March 2022	13.4 °C14 January 2022	22.2 °C	2,579 mm	35
2021	32.2 °C13 March 2021	14.3 °C1 February 2021	22.2 °C	1,877 mm	17
2020	31.1 °C7 March 2020	14.5 °C1 December 2020	21.9 °C	2,641 mm	3
2019	34.2 °C24 March 2019	14.6 °C1 January 2019	22.5 °C	2,155 mm	66
2018	33.8 °C16 February 2018	14.3 °C23 June 2018	22.2 °C	2,021 mm	36
2017	33.9 °C19 January 2017	14.5 °C13 January 2017	22.7 °C	1,496 mm	61
2016	33.6 °C21 March 2016	14.8 °C6 December 2016	22.9 °C	1,572 mm	62
2015	35.1 °C11 March 2015	13.6 °C2 January 2015	22.4 °C	2,300 mm	60
2014	33.8 °C4 March 2014	13.0 °C13 February 2014	22.2 °C	1,434 mm	39
2013	33.8 °C1 March 2013	14.2 °C23 January 2013	21.9 °C	1,731 mm	38
2012	33.6 °C30 March 2012	11.6 °C4 January 2012	21.9 °C	1,664 mm	59
2011	33.8 °C26 February 2011	12.5 °C7 February 2011	21.9 °C	1,812 mm	40
2010	33.3 °C3 February 2010	14.2 °C18 December 2010	22.1 °C	2,233 mm	27
2009	32.8 °C28 March 2009	12.5 °C11 January 2009	22.2 °C	1,970 mm	46
2008	32.2 °C3 March 2008	14.3 °C16 July 2008	21.8 °C	2,000 mm	35
2007	31.9 °C8 March 2007	13.6 °C8 January 2007	21.8 °C	1,545 mm	25
2006	34.3 °C6 February 2006	14.7 °C23 January 2006	21.9 °C	2,565 mm	39
2005	35.9 °C25 February 2005	12.3 °C4 January 2005	22.4 °C	1,447 mm	70
2004	33.2 °C14 February 2004	13.9 °C10 July 2004	22.0 °C	1,655 mm	33
2003	33.1 °C6 March 2003	13.2 °C14 January 2003	22.0 °C	1,543 mm	49
2002	32.7 °C5 February 2002	15.0 °C15 June 2002	21.9 °C	2,608 mm	19
2001	33.2 °C3 March 2001	13.8 °C3 March 2001	21.5 °C	1,806 mm	15
2000	32.5 °C3 March 2000	12.9 °C27 January 2000	21.8 °C	1,367 mm	32
1999	32.9 °C6 February 1999	14.7 °C24 January 1999	21.5 °C	2,124 mm	36
1998	32.1 °C5 March 1998	14.7 °C3 December 1998	22.1 °C	2,102 mm	27
1997	34.8 °C23 March 1997	14.9 °C5 February 1997	22.2 °C	2,851 mm	57
1996	31.1 °C11 March 1996	13.9 °C14 December 1996	21.8 °C	1,648 mm	16
1995	31.3 °C5 February 1995	13.2 °C20 January 1995	21.9 °C	2,410 mm	12
1994	31.9 °C1 February 1994	13.4 °C4 July 1994	21.7 °C	2,231 mm	27
1993	30.9 °C29 December 1993	13.3 °C5 February 1993	21.7 °C	1,550 mm	8
1992	33.1 °C16 March 1992	13.4 °C4 February 1992	21.6 °C	1,989 mm	27
1991	32.0 °C21 March 1991	13.3 °C25 December 1991	21.4 °C	2,405 mm	14
1990	30.9 °C29 January 1990	12.2 °C9 January 1990	21.3 °C	2,701 mm	2
1989	32.8 °C3 March 1989	13.1 °C20 February 1989	21.1 °C	2,388 mm	12
1988	33.4 °C2 March 1988	12.7 °C5 December 1988	21.4 °C	2,356 mm	13
1987	33.3 °C30 December 1987	13.2 °C3 February 1987	21.7 °C	2,459 mm	14
1986	30.6 °C24 February 1986	13.3 °C25 March 1986	21.1 °C	3,334 mm	5
1985	32.7 °C16 March 1985	13.0 °C10 February 1985	21.0 °C	3,157 mm	17
1984	33.1 °C21 February 1984	12.5 °C19 December 1984	21.1 °C	2,276 mm	20
1983	32.2 °C27 February 1983	12.6 °C17 December 1983	21.5 °C	1,987 mm	25
1982	33.7 °C26 March 1982	13.5 °C30 December 1982	21.2 °C	2,447 mm	19
1981	32.1 °C1 March 1981	13.1 °C15 June 1981	21.2 °C	2,136 mm	21
1980	33.5 °C24 February 1980	12.8 °C20 March 1980	21.3 °C	2,171 mm	20
1979	31.3 °C5 March 1979	13.3 °C22 July 1979	21.2 °C	3,201 mm	10
1978	33.4 °C7 February 1978	12.0 °C30 January 1978	21.0 °C	2,486 mm	11
1977	31.7 °C16 February 1977	12.0 °C14 August 1977	21.0 °C	2,315 mm	11
1976	31.1 °C31 January 1976	12.7 °C16 January 1976	20.7 °C	2,410 mm	6
1975	32.5 °C19 February 1975	13.0 °C19 December 1975	20.7 °C	2,487 mm	17
1974	32.2 °C22 February 1974	11.9 °C20 July 1974	20.7 °C	2,892 mm	15
1973	31.5 °C6 February 1973	12.9 °C11 December 1973	21.1 °C	2,556 mm	24
1972	30.8 °C31 March 1972	13.1 °C20 February 1972	20.6 °C	4,091 mm	2
1971	32.1 °C5 March 1971	12.4 °C22 February 1971	20.5 °C	2,269 mm	15
1970	30.6 °C28 February 1970	12.7 °C8 December 1970	20.6 °C	2,972 mm	2
1969	31.2 °C1 October 1969	13.2 °C8 February 1969	20.9 °C	2,186 mm	3
1968	30.9 °C21 January 1968	11.6 °C15 January 1968	20.6 °C	3,597 mm	3
1967	32.0 °C15 February 1967	12.0 °C9 December 1967	20.7 °C	2,369 mm	25
1966	30.8 °C26 December 1966	11.2 °C24 December 1966	20.9 °C	2,810 mm	4
1965	30.3 °C24 January 1965	12.0 °C9 June 1965	20.7 °C	2,921 mm	2
1964	30.4 °C31 January 1964	12.8 °C1 September 1964	20.5 °C	2,939 mm	1
1963	30.1 °C20 October 1963	12.5 °C18 June 1963	20.4 °C	3,917 mm	3
1962	29.7 °C3 February 1962	13.2 °C4 July 1962	20.0 °C	3,030 mm	0
1961	32.6 °C21 January 1961	13.0 °C3 January 1961	21.1 °C	3,207 mm	20
1960	31.3 °C12 December 1960	13.6 °C29 December 1960	21.2 °C	2,888 mm	15
1959	32.4 °C17 March 1959	12.4 °C9 June 1959	21.3 °C	2,728 mm	10
1958	32.4 °C5 March 1958	13.5 °C5 August 1958	21.3 °C	2,835 mm	20
1957	31.2 °C24 September 1957	13.0 °C20 December 1957	21.0 °C	3,604 mm	7
1956	29.5 °C15 March 1956	12.9 °C23 July 1956	20.1 °C	2,083 mm	0
1955	29.4 °C3 March 1955	13.2 °C15 December 1955	20.3 °C	1,942 mm	0
1954	29.7 °C24 November 1954	12.7 °C4 July 1954	20.5 °C	1,597 mm	0
1953	28.7 °C29 August 1953	12.4 °C13 August 1953	20.1 °C	4,690 mm	0
1952	28.3 °C27 September 1952	14.1 °C12 June 1952	20.4 °C	2,348 mm	0
1951	29.2 °C1 March 1951	13.1 °C21 January 1951	20.3 °C	3,185 mm	0
1950	30.3 °C1 March 1950	12.5 °C7 January 1950	20.2 °C	1,656 mm	2
1949	29.7 °C23 March 1949	12.3 °C31 July 1949	20.6 °C	1,595 mm	0
1948	27.8 °C23 March 1948	12.9 °C3 January 1948	20.5 °C	2,173 mm	0
1947	30.1 °C11 October 1947	11.9 °C25 July 1947	20.6 °C	2,483 mm	1
1946	34.0 °C31 March 1946	13.1 °C24 November 1946	21.2 °C	1,250 mm	64
1945	31.1 °C23 February 1945	13.1 °C27 February 1945	20.9 °C	1,222 mm	7
1944	31.9 °C16 April 1944	12.8 °C9 January 1944	21.5 °C	1,264 mm	35
1943	32.8 °C18 February 1943	13.0 °C27 July 1943	21.7 °C	489 mm	59
1942	33.0 °C8 February 1942	12.6 °C2 January 1942	21.1 °C	1,030 mm	31
1941	31.9 °C7 February 1941	12.2 °C21 December 1941	20.8 °C	1,377 mm	22
1940	29.1 °C29 December 1940	12.4 °C29 January 1940	20.1 °C	1,779 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

27.8 °C

+1.1 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

45 d/yr

+23

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

2216 mm

-85 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	28.2 °C	+0.6 °C	31 mm	-94 mm
Feb	30.8 °C	+2.5 °C	13 mm	-125 mm
Mar	29.3 °C	+1.5 °C	328 mm	+60 mm
Apr	27.4 °C	+1.0 °C	460 mm	+119 mm
May	27.3 °C	+1.3 °C	272 mm	-43 mm
Jun	26.6 °C	+0.8 °C	173 mm	-18 mm
Jul	26.2 °C	+0.5 °C	361 mm	+258 mm
Aug	26.4 °C	+0.2 °C	92 mm	+7 mm
Sep	28.4 °C	+1.6 °C	87 mm	-28 mm
Oct	27.1 °C	+0.4 °C	163 mm	-3 mm
Nov	27.9 °C	+1.9 °C	62 mm	-193 mm
Dec	28.1 °C	+1.6 °C	177 mm	-25 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

33.9 °C

7 Mar 2025

Coldest day

14.7 °C

23 Nov 2025

Wettest day

97.3 mm

8 Apr 2025

Windiest day

17.8 km/h

3 Mar 2025

Strongest gust

40.3 km/h

3 Mar 2025

Hottest feels-like

35.6 °C

18 Mar 2025

Coldest feels-like

13.9 °C

16 Jan 2025

Sunniest day

11.9 h

4 Mar 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Malaba?

Malaba has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 21.4 °C and it receives 2,301 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Malaba?

The hottest day measured in Malaba between 1940 and 2025 was 25 February 2005, reaching 35.9 °C.

What is the coldest day in Malaba?

The coldest day measured in Malaba between 1940 and 2025 was 24 December 1966, at 11.2 °C.

Does it snow in Malaba?

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

Has the climate of Malaba warmed?

Yes: Malaba warmed by +2.1 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Malaba?

The wettest day measured in Malaba between 1940 and 2025 was 30 April 2002, with 267 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Malaba?

The windiest day measured in Malaba between 1940 and 2025 was 19 February 1944, with winds reaching 21.1 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Malaba?

The warmest month in Malaba is February (22.3 °C on average); the coldest is July (20.6 °C).

How much does it rain in Malaba?

Malaba receives on average 2,301 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 229 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Malaba?

Malaba gets on average 10.1 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,687 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Are there tropical nights in Malaba?

Yes: Malaba has on average 2 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Malaba?

In Malaba, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 37.8 °C on 23 March 1997, and the lowest was 9.4 °C on 25 July 1947.

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