Climate and average weather in Inkisi

In Inkisi, the weather is muggy, hot, wet, and mostly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around November.

Best: late May to mid September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Inkisi typically varies from 18°C to 30°C, and is rarely below 16°C or above 32°C. March is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Inkisi for warm-weather activities is from late May to mid September.

Hottest
Mar
30°
Coldest
Jul
18°
Wettest
Nov
203 mm
Driest
Jul
1 mm
Rain / yr
1145 mm
177 wet days
Daylight
11.7–12.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
516 m
5.1°S
Clearest
Jun
55% cloud

Inkisi 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 late May to mid September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Inkisi stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is March, with an average high of 30°C and low of 21°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 18°C and high of 27°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights year-round.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2921
Feb2921
Mar3021
Apr3021
May2921
Jun2819
Jul2718
Aug2719
Sep2820
Oct2921
Nov2821
Dec2821

How hot and cold Inkisi 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, Inkisi feels like about 33°C (around April 18). About 77 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in April.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan31292121
Feb32292121
Mar33302121
Apr33302121
May31292121
Jun28281919
Jul27271818
Aug27271819
Sep29282020
Oct30292121
Nov31282121
Dec30282121

Average hourly temperature in Inkisi

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 March afternoons, near 30°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 18°C.

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

Inkisi 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
Jan29° / 21°13422.212.33.9
Feb29° / 21°9917.312.23.9
Mar30° / 21°12819.8123.6
Apr30° / 21°17424.311.93.3
May29° / 21°8215.311.84.8
Jun28° / 19°40.911.77.7
Jul27° / 18°10.111.78.0
Aug27° / 19°61.411.87.5
Sep28° / 20°216.1126.2
Oct29° / 21°1161912.14.3
Nov28° / 21°20325.312.23.5
Dec28° / 21°17925.712.33.6

Chance of rain

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

Inkisi gets about 1145 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 7.2 months, from around Oct 9 to May 16, peaking in April at about 85% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 6.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 203 mm over about 25 wet days; July is the driest, with 1 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 22 · 85%Jul 6 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan7122
Feb6117
Mar6620
Apr7924
May4915
Jun41
Jul00
Aug51
Sep216
Oct6119
Nov8425
Dec8326

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Inkisi collects about 1145 mm of rain across 177 wet days — roughly 95 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 203 mm, while July is the driest at just 1 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 49% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec134991281748241621116203179
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan13422
Feb9917
Mar12820
Apr17424
May8215
Jun41
Jul10
Aug61
Sep216
Oct11619
Nov20325
Dec17926

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

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

The clearer part of the year begins around May 7 and lasts for 4.8 months, ending around September 30. The clearest month is June, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 57% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 1 and lasts for 7.2 months, ending around May 6. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 89% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJun 21 · 63%Jan 2 · 10%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1189
Feb1288
Mar1288
Apr1486
May3466
Jun5743
Jul5545
Aug3367
Sep2674
Oct1882
Nov1486
Dec1189

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, Inkisi barely changes through the year: days stay near 12 h 18 min of light in every season.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan12.36:016:17
Feb12.26:096:19
Mar12.06:086:10
Apr11.96:035:57
May11.86:035:49
Jun11.76:095:51
Jul11.76:145:57
Aug11.86:095:59
Sep12.05:555:53
Oct12.15:415:48
Nov12.25:385:52
Dec12.35:476:05

Sunny days

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

Inkisi averages about 3 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 11 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.4 months, from around May 9 to Aug 21. The sunniest month is June, with roughly 9 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is December, down near 0 sunny days — about 94% fewer than the June peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedJun 2211 daysDec 80 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan1Gloomy
Feb1Gloomy
Mar1Gloomy
Apr1Gloomy
May4Gloomy
Jun9Mixed
Jul9Mixed
Aug4Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct1Gloomy
Nov1Gloomy
Dec1Gloomy

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 Inkisi, how humid it feels changes noticeably over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 9.6 months, from around September 1 to June 19. The muggiest month is January, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around June 20 to August 31, and July 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 26 · 24%Jan 1 · 0%oppressivemuggyhumidcomfortablehumidcomfortablehumid
Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan015248
Feb014950
Mar004159
Apr002377
May034552
Jun354412
Jul177750
Aug118170
Sep056430
Oct0117613
Nov016138
Dec005347

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.

Across the year, average wind speed in Inkisi is typically calm, near 7 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.6 months, from around Jun 3 to Oct 19. The windiest month is August, averaging about 10 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Oct 20 to Jun 2, with April the calmest month at about 5 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeAug 9 · 10 km/hApr 26 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr5calm
May6calm
Jun8calm
Jul9calm
Aug10calm
Sep9calm
Oct7calm
Nov6calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Inkisi

In seasonPeak

When the seasonal hazards worth planning around — the rainy season, tropical-cyclone risk and dust haze — are active through the year.

Inkisi's rainy season runs October–April, when most of the year's rain falls.

Rainy season
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Best time to visit Inkisi

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early September, Inkisi 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 time of year to visit Inkisi for general outdoor tourist activities is from late May to mid September, with a peak score in the second week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 10 · 8.0

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
Feb3.9fair
Mar3.6fair
Apr3.3poor
May4.9fair
Jun7.6ideal
Jul8.0ideal
Aug7.5good
Sep6.2good
Oct4.3fair
Nov3.5fair
Dec3.6fair

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 Inkisi for hot-weather activities is from late May to late September, with a peak score in the last week of June.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 22 · 8.2

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 Inkisi, 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.

Inkisi packs about the same all year — highs hold near 30°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 March, Inkisi sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 21°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 20 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Inkisi 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 Inkisi peaks around March 17 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near August 11 at about 6 (high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highHighExtremeMar 17UV 15Aug 11UV 6
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May9Very high
Jun8Very high
Jul7High
Aug6High
Sep10Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov12Extreme
Dec10Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Inkisi

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 March the burn window is concentrated in the middle of the day: about 8 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6.5 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)
Jan86.5
Feb8.56.5
Mar86.5
Apr86.5
May74.5
Jun6.53.5
Jul62
Aug61.5
Sep7.55
Oct86.5
Nov86
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Inkisi 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 Inkisi is worst in July — around 61 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 3.6× the cleanest month (November, 17 µg/m³).

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

020406080JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorUnhealthyPoorModerateJul 1660 µg/m³Nov 2117 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan19Moderate
Feb22Moderate
Mar21Moderate
Apr21Moderate
May35Moderate
Jun55Unhealthy
Jul61Unhealthy
Aug54Poor
Sep51Poor
Oct25Moderate
Nov17Moderate
Dec19Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Inkisi 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. Inkisi banks about 5,254 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around March.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan460
Feb430
Mar485
Apr464
May461
Jun399
Jul388
Aug397
Sep420
Oct458
Nov440
Dec451

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.

Inkisi receives about 4.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.3 and 5.3 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightMar 25.3 kWhMay 294.3 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.9Bright
Feb5.2Bright
Mar5.3Bright
Apr4.8Bright
May4.4Bright
Jun4.6Bright
Jul5.0Bright
Aug4.6Bright
Sep4.7Bright
Oct4.8Bright
Nov4.8Bright
Dec4.7Bright

Where is Inkisi?

Inkisi sits at 5.1°S, 15.1°E, 516 m above sea level, in Democratic Republic of the Congo. The nearest listed city is Mbanza-Ngungu, 26 km away.

Cuímba

Topography around Inkisi

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Inkisi has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 141 m around an average of 532 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 195 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 757 m.

The land around Inkisi is covered by grassland (45%) and shrubs (20%) within 3 km, grassland (61%) and shrubs (23%) within 16 km, and grassland (56%) and trees (32%) within 80 km.

3 km
141 m
16 km
195 m
80 km
757 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Mbanza-Ngungu 26 km · Kasangulu 62 km · Kimpese 84 km · Masina 91 km · Kinshasa 94 km · Brazzaville 99 km · Maquela do Zombo 103 km · Cuímba 120 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 Inkisi (-5.1312°, 15.0541°, elevation 516 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).