Busesa climate — normals and trends

Q: What is the climate of Busesa?

Busesa has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 22.0 °C and it receives 1,820 mm of precipitation per year.

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

The hottest day measured in Busesa between 1940 and 2025 was 25 February 2005, reaching 36.4 °C.

Q: What is the coldest day in Busesa?

The coldest day measured in Busesa between 1940 and 2025 was 13 August 1953, at 11.8 °C.

Q: Does it snow in Busesa?

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

Q: Has the climate of Busesa warmed?

Yes: Busesa warmed by +2.2 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

Q: What is the wettest day in Busesa?

The wettest day measured in Busesa between 1940 and 2025 was 18 December 1997, with 86 mm of rain in 24 hours.

Q: What was the windiest day in Busesa?

The windiest day measured in Busesa between 1940 and 2025 was 26 February 1946, with winds reaching 22.0 km/h.

Q: What is the warmest month in Busesa?

The warmest month in Busesa is February (23.0 °C on average); the coldest is July (21.2 °C).

Q: How much does it rain in Busesa?

Busesa receives on average 1,820 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 271 rainy days.

Q: Is it sunny in Busesa?

Busesa gets on average 10.2 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,723 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Busesa (Uganda) has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) under the Köppen-Geiger classification. Its mean annual temperature is 22.0 °C and it receives 1,820 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 (23.0 °C on average) and the coldest is July (21.2 °C). Rainfall peaks in April.

Busesa averages 0 frost days, 28 hot days (≥ 30 °C) and 271 rainy days per year.

Busesa has warmed by +2.2 °C between 1940 and 2025, or +0.26 °C per decade. This trend is statistically significant.

The hottest day of the period reached 36.4 °C (on 25 February 2005) and the coldest 11.8 °C (on 13 August 1953).

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

BusesaEastern Region

coords: 0.63°, 33.60°
period: 1940–2025 · 86 yrs

AfTropical rainforestWarmest monthFebruaryColdest monthJulyWettest monthAprilDriest monthJanuary

Mean daily temperature

22.0°C

Average daily high

27.3°C

Average daily low

18.0°C

Annual rainfall

1,820mm

Sunshine / day

10.2h

Mean relative humidity

83%

Average peak wind

9.3km/h

Seasonal range

1.8°C

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

28 d/yr

Rainy days (≥ 1 mm)

271 d/yr

Annual snowfall

0.0 cm

Average feels-like high

31.4 °C

Average feels-like low

20.0 °C

Average peak gust

23.8 km/h

Tropical nights (≥ 20 °C)

17 d/yr

Solar radiation

19.1 MJ/m²

Has the climate changed?

One stripe per year, 1940 to 2025

+2.2 °C

since 1940

+0.3 °C per decade · r² = 0.77 · 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

36.4 °C

25 February 2005

Coldest day

11.8 °C

13 August 1953

Wettest day

86 mm

18 December 1997

Windiest day

22.0 km/h

26 February 1946

Strongest gust

47.5 km/h

26 February 1946

Hottest feels-like

39.6 °C

25 February 2005

Coldest feels-like

10.7 °C

13 August 1953

Sunniest day

12.0 h

27 January 1940

Year	Hottest day	Coldest day	Annual mean	Rainfall	Hot days
2025	35.7 °C27 February 2025	16.5 °C16 January 2025	23.6 °C	1,191 mm	110
2024	33.5 °C25 February 2024	16.7 °C29 December 2024	23.8 °C	1,448 mm	84
2023	34.3 °C8 March 2023	16.1 °C7 January 2023	23.4 °C	1,784 mm	82
2022	32.9 °C13 January 2022	15.6 °C14 January 2022	23.1 °C	1,392 mm	50
2021	32.6 °C13 March 2021	15.8 °C7 July 2021	22.8 °C	1,257 mm	23
2020	31.9 °C17 February 2020	16.1 °C27 July 2020	22.7 °C	1,899 mm	28
2019	34.4 °C24 March 2019	15.7 °C20 December 2019	23.0 °C	1,680 mm	69
2018	35.4 °C16 February 2018	15.2 °C7 July 2018	22.9 °C	1,789 mm	47
2017	35.1 °C17 January 2017	17.2 °C6 January 2017	23.5 °C	1,226 mm	88
2016	33.7 °C29 March 2016	15.8 °C30 June 2016	23.5 °C	1,167 mm	94
2015	36.1 °C16 March 2015	15.6 °C5 January 2015	23.1 °C	1,607 mm	83
2014	35.0 °C23 February 2014	15.8 °C14 December 2014	22.8 °C	1,430 mm	67
2013	33.1 °C27 February 2013	15.1 °C16 July 2013	22.5 °C	1,538 mm	42
2012	34.7 °C15 February 2012	14.5 °C4 January 2012	22.6 °C	1,667 mm	64
2011	33.8 °C26 February 2011	14.5 °C27 January 2011	22.5 °C	1,736 mm	42
2010	33.5 °C2 February 2010	15.5 °C18 December 2010	22.7 °C	1,595 mm	38
2009	32.3 °C18 January 2009	14.2 °C11 January 2009	22.8 °C	1,464 mm	58
2008	32.0 °C26 November 2008	16.2 °C5 September 2008	22.3 °C	1,533 mm	46
2007	32.3 °C8 March 2007	14.9 °C21 June 2007	22.4 °C	1,423 mm	26
2006	34.3 °C27 January 2006	15.6 °C5 September 2006	22.5 °C	1,875 mm	42
2005	36.4 °C25 February 2005	14.6 °C14 July 2005	22.9 °C	1,254 mm	72
2004	34.0 °C13 February 2004	15.8 °C4 July 2004	22.7 °C	1,380 mm	41
2003	34.1 °C6 March 2003	14.9 °C30 December 2003	22.5 °C	1,381 mm	54
2002	31.8 °C5 February 2002	15.2 °C8 July 2002	22.5 °C	1,521 mm	27
2001	32.3 °C3 March 2001	15.2 °C4 March 2001	22.0 °C	1,593 mm	16
2000	31.9 °C20 February 2000	13.5 °C27 January 2000	22.2 °C	1,447 mm	26
1999	34.1 °C8 February 1999	15.1 °C17 July 1999	22.1 °C	1,619 mm	34
1998	32.6 °C13 March 1998	16.0 °C7 September 1998	22.7 °C	1,583 mm	45
1997	34.0 °C13 March 1997	15.8 °C19 July 1997	22.7 °C	1,962 mm	60
1996	30.8 °C23 February 1996	16.0 °C30 November 1996	22.2 °C	1,715 mm	12
1995	31.3 °C21 January 1995	15.0 °C20 January 1995	22.5 °C	1,809 mm	26
1994	31.9 °C16 February 1994	15.2 °C24 August 1994	22.3 °C	1,892 mm	24
1993	30.7 °C10 April 1993	15.5 °C22 January 1993	22.3 °C	1,541 mm	11
1992	33.1 °C12 March 1992	15.4 °C15 July 1992	22.1 °C	1,692 mm	32
1991	31.3 °C3 March 1991	16.0 °C25 July 1991	22.1 °C	1,955 mm	20
1990	31.2 °C10 February 1990	15.4 °C30 July 1990	22.0 °C	1,914 mm	7
1989	32.4 °C28 February 1989	14.5 °C20 January 1989	21.8 °C	1,881 mm	15
1988	32.9 °C2 March 1988	14.6 °C5 December 1988	22.1 °C	1,933 mm	14
1987	32.6 °C30 December 1987	15.8 °C2 February 1987	22.4 °C	1,840 mm	20
1986	30.8 °C25 February 1986	14.9 °C6 August 1986	21.8 °C	2,158 mm	5
1985	34.0 °C16 March 1985	14.5 °C15 January 1985	21.7 °C	2,033 mm	22
1984	32.9 °C21 February 1984	13.8 °C20 January 1984	21.7 °C	1,755 mm	14
1983	33.1 °C14 February 1983	14.9 °C30 December 1983	22.2 °C	1,755 mm	31
1982	32.5 °C26 March 1982	15.6 °C15 August 1982	21.8 °C	1,860 mm	12
1981	33.0 °C1 March 1981	15.2 °C13 September 1981	21.9 °C	1,746 mm	26
1980	33.0 °C26 February 1980	15.3 °C24 July 1980	21.9 °C	1,727 mm	21
1979	31.2 °C5 March 1979	15.0 °C3 March 1979	21.8 °C	2,234 mm	9
1978	33.1 °C7 February 1978	13.6 °C30 January 1978	21.7 °C	2,128 mm	9
1977	31.5 °C16 March 1977	14.2 °C14 August 1977	21.7 °C	1,995 mm	14
1976	32.1 °C16 March 1976	14.0 °C25 July 1976	21.4 °C	2,166 mm	16
1975	31.5 °C22 February 1975	14.3 °C30 July 1975	21.4 °C	2,456 mm	20
1974	33.0 °C16 March 1974	15.2 °C30 July 1974	21.4 °C	2,127 mm	18
1973	31.8 °C5 February 1973	14.7 °C11 July 1973	21.8 °C	1,974 mm	33
1972	30.2 °C31 March 1972	15.2 °C2 January 1972	21.4 °C	2,432 mm	4
1971	32.7 °C5 March 1971	14.0 °C30 January 1971	21.3 °C	2,035 mm	22
1970	31.9 °C8 February 1970	14.8 °C25 July 1970	21.4 °C	2,044 mm	6
1969	31.2 °C3 April 1969	15.0 °C17 July 1969	21.6 °C	1,664 mm	6
1968	30.8 °C3 September 1968	13.6 °C14 January 1968	21.2 °C	2,374 mm	3
1967	31.5 °C10 March 1967	13.7 °C11 December 1967	21.3 °C	2,212 mm	26
1966	30.6 °C8 August 1966	13.1 °C24 December 1966	21.7 °C	2,141 mm	11
1965	32.2 °C14 February 1965	14.0 °C18 January 1965	21.6 °C	2,213 mm	17
1964	30.8 °C5 March 1964	14.7 °C31 August 1964	21.2 °C	2,368 mm	4
1963	30.3 °C24 March 1963	13.7 °C8 August 1963	21.1 °C	2,284 mm	2
1962	30.9 °C4 February 1962	14.5 °C2 February 1962	20.8 °C	2,279 mm	6
1961	34.3 °C21 January 1961	14.7 °C3 January 1961	21.7 °C	2,584 mm	24
1960	30.8 °C12 December 1960	14.0 °C26 July 1960	21.8 °C	2,342 mm	13
1959	32.5 °C17 March 1959	14.5 °C11 July 1959	22.0 °C	2,374 mm	24
1958	32.6 °C3 March 1958	14.5 °C28 June 1958	21.9 °C	2,053 mm	37
1957	30.8 °C18 January 1957	13.0 °C5 February 1957	21.8 °C	2,307 mm	9
1956	29.9 °C2 March 1956	15.0 °C30 July 1956	20.7 °C	1,883 mm	0
1955	28.9 °C3 March 1955	14.8 °C20 June 1955	20.8 °C	1,999 mm	0
1954	28.9 °C7 February 1954	12.1 °C3 July 1954	21.0 °C	1,604 mm	0
1953	28.9 °C30 September 1953	11.8 °C13 August 1953	20.7 °C	3,024 mm	0
1952	29.3 °C23 January 1952	15.6 °C29 June 1952	21.0 °C	2,132 mm	0
1951	28.8 °C1 March 1951	14.4 °C4 July 1951	20.9 °C	2,378 mm	0
1950	29.7 °C1 March 1950	14.1 °C18 July 1950	20.7 °C	1,981 mm	0
1949	29.5 °C5 March 1949	13.2 °C31 July 1949	21.1 °C	1,693 mm	0
1948	28.4 °C24 March 1948	14.9 °C13 June 1948	21.0 °C	1,995 mm	0
1947	29.3 °C1 November 1947	12.4 °C26 July 1947	21.1 °C	1,915 mm	0
1946	35.4 °C24 February 1946	14.7 °C15 January 1946	21.7 °C	1,456 mm	61
1945	31.6 °C23 February 1945	14.0 °C9 June 1945	21.4 °C	1,300 mm	2
1944	33.1 °C16 April 1944	13.7 °C7 July 1944	22.1 °C	1,181 mm	60
1943	34.5 °C19 February 1943	13.6 °C27 July 1943	21.8 °C	968 mm	56
1942	32.8 °C8 February 1942	14.2 °C29 July 1942	21.4 °C	1,192 mm	23
1941	32.6 °C7 February 1941	14.7 °C10 December 1941	21.4 °C	1,430 mm	16
1940	29.0 °C20 January 1940	13.6 °C28 December 1940	20.6 °C	1,929 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

29.0 °C

+1.7 °C

Hot days (≥ 30 °C)

110 d/yr

+82

Frost days (< 0 °C)

0 d/yr

Annual rainfall

1191 mm

-629 mm

Month by month

	High	vs. normal	Precipitation	vs. normal
Jan	29.6 °C	+1.4 °C	46 mm	-42 mm
Feb	32.3 °C	+3.5 °C	19 mm	-84 mm
Mar	30.3 °C	+2.0 °C	157 mm	-24 mm
Apr	28.1 °C	+1.1 °C	193 mm	-37 mm
May	28.0 °C	+1.3 °C	196 mm	-34 mm
Jun	27.5 °C	+0.8 °C	69 mm	-69 mm
Jul	27.7 °C	+1.2 °C	83 mm	-26 mm
Aug	27.7 °C	+0.8 °C	121 mm	+1 mm
Sep	29.5 °C	+2.2 °C	97 mm	-47 mm
Oct	28.2 °C	+1.1 °C	116 mm	-55 mm
Nov	29.3 °C	+2.6 °C	40 mm	-143 mm
Dec	29.8 °C	+2.6 °C	54 mm	-71 mm

The year's extremes

Hottest day

35.7 °C

27 Feb 2025

Coldest day

16.5 °C

16 Jan 2025

Wettest day

27.0 mm

20 Mar 2025

Windiest day

18.2 km/h

16 Mar 2025

Strongest gust

42.8 km/h

16 Mar 2025

Hottest feels-like

37.8 °C

1 Mar 2025

Coldest feels-like

16.6 °C

27 Feb 2025

Sunniest day

12.0 h

24 Jan 2025

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Frequently asked questions

What is the climate of Busesa?

Busesa has a tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af). Over 1940-2025, the average annual temperature is 22.0 °C and it receives 1,820 mm of precipitation per year.

What is the hottest day ever recorded in Busesa?

The hottest day measured in Busesa between 1940 and 2025 was 25 February 2005, reaching 36.4 °C.

What is the coldest day in Busesa?

The coldest day measured in Busesa between 1940 and 2025 was 13 August 1953, at 11.8 °C.

Does it snow in Busesa?

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

Has the climate of Busesa warmed?

Yes: Busesa warmed by +2.2 °C between 1940 and 2025, a statistically significant trend.

What is the wettest day in Busesa?

The wettest day measured in Busesa between 1940 and 2025 was 18 December 1997, with 86 mm of rain in 24 hours.

What was the windiest day in Busesa?

The windiest day measured in Busesa between 1940 and 2025 was 26 February 1946, with winds reaching 22.0 km/h.

What is the warmest month in Busesa?

The warmest month in Busesa is February (23.0 °C on average); the coldest is July (21.2 °C).

How much does it rain in Busesa?

Busesa receives on average 1,820 mm of precipitation per year, spread over about 271 rainy days.

Is it sunny in Busesa?

Busesa gets on average 10.2 hours of sunshine per day, roughly 3,723 hours per year over 1940-2025.

Are there tropical nights in Busesa?

Yes: Busesa has on average 17 tropical nights per year (temperature staying above 20 °C), over 1940-2025.

What was the most extreme apparent temperature in Busesa?

In Busesa, between 1940 and 2025, the highest apparent temperature reached 39.6 °C on 25 February 2005, and the lowest was 10.7 °C on 13 August 1953.

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