Climate and average weather in Businga

In Businga, the weather is humid, sweltering, wet, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near sweltering levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around October.

Best: early June to early August

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Businga typically varies from 21°C to 33°C, and is rarely below 17°C or above 36°C. February is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Businga for warm-weather activities are from early June to early August and mid November to late December.

Hottest
Feb
33°
Coldest
Aug
21°
Wettest
Oct
189 mm
Driest
Jan
33 mm
Rain / yr
1447 mm
227 wet days
Daylight
11.8–12.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
362 m
3.3°N
Clearest
Jan
63% cloud

Businga is human settlement.

Density
3/km²
people per km²

Air quality: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database. Density & description: Wikidata (CC0), GeoNames.

Businga weather by month, at a glance

The whole year in one picture — sky, rain, humidity, temperature and travel score. Click any band to jump to its full chart.

Each stripe is one measure across the whole year, stacked so a single day reads top to bottom. The sky band runs overcast grey on top down to clear blue at the base — more blue means sunnier — followed by the rainfall curve, the humidity band, a temperature strip that tints each stretch of the year by how warm its average high is, and the travel-score line at the foot. Scan straight down any date to read that day across every measure at once; the score climbs highest around early June to early August.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

Daily average highs and lows in Businga, from 1991–2020 of climate data. The shaded bands show the range most days fall in — 10th to 90th percentile.

Temperatures in Businga stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 33°C and low of 22°C; the coolest is August, with an average low of 21°C and high of 29°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 12°C) in January.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3321
Feb3322
Mar3223
Apr3122
May3122
Jun3022
Jul2921
Aug2921
Sep3021
Oct2921
Nov3021
Dec3121

How hot and cold Businga really feels

Feels-like highFeels-like lowactual air temp

The felt-temperature range through the year — heat index on the day's high (summer humidity), wind chill on the night's low (winter wind). The dashed lines are the plain thermometer; the gap is how much hotter or colder it really feels.

On the hottest afternoons, once humidity is folded in, Businga feels like about 37°C (around March 3). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, peaking in March.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan34332021
Feb36332222
Mar36322223
Apr35312222
May35312222
Jun33302222
Jul33292121
Aug33292121
Sep33302121
Oct33292121
Nov33302121
Dec34312121

Average hourly temperature in Businga

A compact picture of the whole year, hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled average temperature. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

Read left to right for the day of the year and top to bottom for the hour of the day; the color is the modeled temperature, cool blues through to hot reds on the same scale as the other charts. A vertical slice is a single day's swing — coolest just before dawn, warmest in the mid-afternoon — while a horizontal slice follows one hour across the seasons. The darker overlay marks night and the lighter one the twilight around sunrise and sunset. Colors run warmest on February afternoons, near 33°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 21°C.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM

Businga weather by month

Every month at a glance. Click a month for its detailed page.

MonthHigh / Low (°C)Rainfall (mm)Wet daysDaylight (hours)Travel score
Jan33° / 21°336.311.84.0
Feb33° / 22°569.611.93.3
Mar32° / 23°12617.5123.0
Apr31° / 22°15220.912.13.1
May31° / 22°13121.912.13.4
Jun30° / 22°11420.912.23.7
Jul29° / 21°12922.912.23.7
Aug29° / 21°16325.312.13.4
Sep30° / 21°17724.8123.3
Oct29° / 21°18926.611.93.3
Nov30° / 21°13121.211.83.6
Dec31° / 21°478.811.84.4

Chance of rain

How likely it is to rain on a typical day, and how that shifts across the wetter and drier seasons.

Businga gets about 1447 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is very wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 7.8 months, from around Mar 30 to Nov 22, peaking in October at about 86% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 9.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 189 mm over about 27 wet days; January is the driest, with 33 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetOct 15 · 86%Jan 9 · 17%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan206
Feb3510
Mar5718
Apr6821
May7122
Jun7021
Jul7423
Aug8125
Sep8325
Oct8527
Nov7021
Dec299

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Businga collects about 1447 mm of rain across 227 wet days — roughly 121 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 189 mm, while January is the driest at just 33 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 37% of the year’s total.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec335612615213111412916317718913147
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan336
Feb5610
Mar12618
Apr15221
May13122
Jun11421
Jul12923
Aug16325
Sep17725
Oct18927
Nov13121
Dec479

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

How often the daytime sky is clear, partly cloudy or overcast.

In Businga, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows moderate seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around November 20 and lasts for 3.4 months, ending around March 2. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 44% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around July 8 and lasts for 4.4 months, ending around November 19. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 81% of the time.

0%100%10%90%20%80%30%70%40%60%50%50%60%40%70%30%80%20%90%10%100%0%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecDec 25 · 48%Aug 19 · 18%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4456
Feb3862
Mar2872
Apr2476
May3268
Jun3367
Jul2575
Aug1981
Sep2179
Oct2080
Nov2773
Dec4456

Daylight, sunrise and sunset

DaylightNight

Hours of daylight through the year, with sunrise and sunset times.

The gold band is daylight — sunrise runs along its lower edge, sunset along the upper — so it widens toward summer and pinches toward winter, with night the dark area above and below. Close to the equator, Businga barely changes through the year: days stay near 12 h 12 min of light in every season.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.85:515:41
Feb11.95:545:48
Mar12.05:475:45
Apr12.15:345:39
May12.15:285:37
Jun12.25:315:42
Jul12.25:375:47
Aug12.15:375:44
Sep12.05:305:31
Oct11.95:245:19
Nov11.85:265:17
Dec11.85:385:27

Sunny days

How many genuinely sunny days each month brings — days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — banded into plain-language zones.

Businga averages about 3 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 8 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.6 months, from around Nov 21 to Mar 11. The sunniest month is January, with roughly 7 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is August, down near 1 sunny days — about 85% fewer than the January peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedJan 48 daysAug 221 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan7Gloomy
Feb5Gloomy
Mar3Gloomy
Apr3Gloomy
May3Gloomy
Jun3Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct1Gloomy
Nov3Gloomy
Dec7Gloomy

Humidity comfort

DryComfortableHumidMuggyOppressiveMiserable

Share of days at each humidity comfort level, based on the dew point — the measure that tracks how muggy it actually feels.

Humidity comfort is graded by the dew point — the temperature at which the air would be fully saturated — because it tracks how muggy it actually feels far better than relative humidity does. A low dew point feels dry and crisp; a high one feels sticky and oppressive no matter the reading on a humidity gauge.

In Businga, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 9.6 months, from around March 2 to December 19. The muggiest month is March, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 99% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around December 20 to March 1, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 17% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 16 · 20%Mar 20 · 0%oppressivemuggyhumidcomfortablecomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan7101430390
Feb25924591
Mar0019872
Apr0001936
May0000955
Jun0002971
Jul0004960
Aug0003970
Sep0001990
Oct0002980
Nov0014960
Dec12825640

Wind

Average wind speed through the year, banded into plain-language speed zones so a number reads as 'breezy' or 'calm' without knowing the scale.

This is the average sustained wind speed at the standard 10 metres above open ground — the steady flow a weather station reports, not the sharper gusts that come and go, which can run half again as fast. It's the number that says whether a place is generally breezy or calm.

Wind in Businga is steady company: average speeds sit near 5 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmFeb 21 · 7 km/hOct 17 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb7calm
Mar6calm
Apr6calm
May5calm
Jun4calm
Jul4calm
Aug4calm
Sep4calm
Oct4calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Best time to visit Businga

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

To characterize how pleasant the weather is in Businga throughout the year, we compute two travel scores — one for general sightseeing, one for beach and pool weather.

Around late July, Businga is still near the tail of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds already thinning.

Inferred from the travel-score curve; month-by-month visitor numbers are a planned addition.

The travel score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 18°C and 28°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Businga for general outdoor tourist activities run from early June to late July and again from mid November to late January, with a peak score in the third week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 18 · 4.5

The travel score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

Travel score (0–10)Rating
Jan3.9fair
Feb3.3poor
Mar3.0poor
Apr3.2poor
May3.4poor
Jun3.7fair
Jul3.6fair
Aug3.4poor
Sep3.3poor
Oct3.2poor
Nov3.6fair
Dec4.4fair

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best time of year to visit Businga for hot-weather activities is from late November to late February, with a peak score in the first week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 5 · 7.0

The beach/pool score (filled area), and its constituents: the temperature score (red line), the cloud cover score (blue line), and the precipitation score (green line).

What to pack for Businga, by month

EssentialRecommendedOptional

Month by month, what's worth putting in the bag — from the temperature range, rain chance, sun and wind. Tap a month for a quick packing note.

Businga packs about the same all year — highs hold near 33°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Businga sees daytime highs around 33°C and nights near 22°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: rain gear and sun protection. About 10 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Businga by month

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Clear-sky midday UV index through the year, shaded by the WHO exposure levels — how much sun protection each month calls for.

Under clear skies, the midday UV index in Businga peaks around October 14 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 16 at about 9 (very high).

The index reaches 3 or more — the level where the WHO recommends sun protection — every month of the year.

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highExtremeVery highOct 14UV 13Dec 16UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan10Extreme
Feb12Extreme
Mar12Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun10Very high
Jul9Very high
Aug12Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov10Very high
Dec8Very high

Average hourly UV index in Businga

LowModerateHighVery highExtreme

Modeled clear-sky UV for every hour of every day — when in the day sun protection actually matters.

The whole year hour by hour: each column is a day, each row an hour, and the color is the modeled clear-sky UV index — the midday peak scaled down as the sun sits lower in the sky. Darker overlays mark night, lighter ones the civil-twilight hours around sunrise and sunset.

UV falls off far faster than brightness as the sun drops, so even in October the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6 hours reach 6 or more. Mornings and late afternoons stay comparatively gentle year round.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec12 AM2 AM4 AM6 AM8 AM10 AM12 PM2 PM4 PM6 PM8 PM10 PM12 AM
UV ≥ 3 (h/day)UV ≥ 6 (h/day)
Jan7.55
Feb7.55.5
Mar86
Apr86
May86
Jun7.55
Jul7.54.5
Aug86
Sep86
Oct86
Nov75
Dec74.5

Air quality in Businga by month

GoodModeratePoorUnhealthyVery unhealthy

Average fine-particle pollution (PM2.5) through the year — so you can see which months the air is worst, not just the yearly average.

Air quality in Businga is worst in March — around 109 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 10.0× the cleanest month (October, 11 µg/m³).

Modeled monthly averages (CAMS reanalysis, 2015–2024).

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyModerateGoodModerateMar 9109 µg/m³Oct 1011 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan52Poor
Feb109Unhealthy
Mar109Unhealthy
Apr29Moderate
May14Moderate
Jun18Moderate
Jul19Moderate
Aug15Moderate
Sep12Good
Oct11Good
Nov17Moderate
Dec30Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Businga is frost-free year round — even the coldest nights rarely reach freezing, so there is no start or end to the growing season.

0%25%50%75%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecfrost-free year round
Frost-free chance (%)Frost nights
Jan1000
Feb1000
Mar1000
Apr1000
May1000
Jun1000
Jul1000
Aug1000
Sep1000
Oct1000
Nov1000
Dec1000

Growing degree days

Degree days (base 10°C)Frost-free shaded

Growing degree days tally heat above 10°C: each day adds however many degrees its average temperature runs over that threshold, and cold days add nothing. Businga banks about 5,869 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around February.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan512
Feb488
Mar540
Apr504
May509
Jun473
Jul473
Aug471
Sep462
Oct473
Nov466
Dec496

Solar energy

Average daily shortwave solar energy reaching the ground, banded into brightness zones so the number means something at a glance.

Solar energy is how much sunlight actually reaches the ground each day, measured in kilowatt-hours per square metre (kWh/m²) — the combined effect of how long the sun is up, how high it climbs, and how much cloud gets in the way. It's the raw fuel a solar panel has to work with: for scale, 1 kWh/m² a day is dim and wintry, while 7+ is desert-bright.

Businga receives about 5.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.8 and 5.8 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 105.8 kWhJul 314.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.7Bright
Feb5.7Bright
Mar5.7Bright
Apr5.4Bright
May5.2Bright
Jun4.9Bright
Jul4.8Bright
Aug4.8Bright
Sep5.1Bright
Oct4.9Bright
Nov4.9Bright
Dec5.3Bright

Where is Businga?

Businga sits at 3.3°N, 20.9°E, 362 m above sea level, in Democratic Republic of the Congo. The nearest listed city is Gbadolite, 105 km away.

GemenaLisalaAlindaoKouangoBumbaLibenge

Topography around Businga

How much the land rises and falls, and what covers it, within 3, 16 and 80 km of Businga.

Within 3 km, the terrain around Businga has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 50 m around an average of 359 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 176 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 290 m.

The land around Businga is covered by trees (50%) and grassland (39%) within 3 km, trees (62%) and grassland (37%) within 16 km, and trees (79%) and grassland (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
50 m
16 km
176 m
80 km
290 m
treesgrasslandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Gbadolite 105 km · Binga 116 km · Gemena 124 km · Lisala 149 km · Alindao 191 km · Kouango 211 km · Bumba 217 km · Libenge 252 km

Democratic Republic of the Congo travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 4
Do Not Travel
Power plugs
Type C / E
220 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 42% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$807
2025
Happiness
3.8 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
12%
of population, 2024
Road deaths
34.9
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Low
World Bank
English
Very low
EF EPI 400

Sources: World Bank, US State Department, World Happiness Report, WHO/UNICEF, EF EPI, CIA World Factbook.

Data sources

Temperature, precipitation, cloud, humidity, wind and solar figures are a 1991–2020 climatology for Businga (3.3386°, 20.8858°, elevation 362 m), computed from hourly ERA5 reanalysis — contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information. Sun figures are astronomical calculations, not observations. City data © GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Map outlines from Natural Earth (public domain); interactive map © Google. UV index is derived from CAMS (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service) clear-sky UV data — contains modified Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service information. Monthly air-quality (PM2.5) seasonality is from the CAMS EAC4 reanalysis (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), scaled to the WHO annual mean where available. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).