Climate and average weather in Kayna

In Kayna, the weather is warm, wet, and mostly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near warm levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around December.

Best: late May to late August

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Kayna typically varies from 15°C to 25°C, and is rarely below 14°C or above 27°C. February is the hottest month of the year, while June is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Feb
25°
Coldest
Jun
16°
Wettest
Dec
525 mm
Driest
Jul
98 mm
Rain / yr
3693 mm
235 wet days
Daylight
12.0–12.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,753 m
0.6°S
Clearest
Jul
62% cloud

Kayna is Town in Lubero territory of DR Congo.

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

Kayna 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 late August.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Kayna stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 25°C and low of 16°C; the coolest is June, with an average low of 16°C and high of 24°C.

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

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2516
Feb2516
Mar2516
Apr2417
May2417
Jun2416
Jul2415
Aug2416
Sep2416
Oct2416
Nov2416
Dec2416

Average hourly temperature in Kayna

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 25°C, and coldest before dawn in June, near 16°C.

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

Kayna 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
Jan25° / 16°48920125.2
Feb25° / 16°33416125.4
Mar25° / 16°36120.5125.0
Apr24° / 17°28722.9124.5
May24° / 17°19221.4125.0
Jun24° / 16°11513.4126.2
Jul24° / 15°9811.6126.7
Aug24° / 16°19717125.7
Sep24° / 16°26019.7125.1
Oct24° / 16°43424.9124.4
Nov24° / 16°40224.8124.3
Dec24° / 16°52522.4124.9

Chance of rain

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

Kayna gets about 3693 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 4.0 months, from around Sep 19 to Jan 17, peaking in November at about 85% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 10.

December is the wettest month by volume, with 525 mm over about 22 wet days; July is the driest, with 98 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetNov 2 · 85%Jul 10 · 32%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan6520
Feb5816
Mar6521
Apr7723
May6821
Jun4513
Jul3812
Aug5617
Sep6620
Oct8025
Nov8225
Dec7222

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Kayna collects about 3693 mm of rain across 235 wet days — roughly 308 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. December is the wettest month with 525 mm, while July is the driest at just 98 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 39% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300350400450500550600JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec48933436128719211598197260434402525
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan48920
Feb33416
Mar36121
Apr28723
May19221
Jun11513
Jul9812
Aug19717
Sep26020
Oct43425
Nov40225
Dec52522

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Kayna, 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 15 and lasts for 4.0 months, ending around September 13. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 44% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 14 and lasts for 4.4 months, ending around January 25. The cloudiest month is October, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 90% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 12 · 48%Oct 23 · 8%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2179
Feb2278
Mar1981
Apr1189
May2476
Jun3763
Jul4456
Aug3169
Sep2179
Oct1090
Nov1189
Dec2080

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, Kayna barely changes through the year: days stay near 12 hours of light in every season.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan12.06:126:14
Feb12.06:176:18
Mar12.06:136:13
Apr12.06:046:03
May12.06:005:59
Jun12.06:056:03
Jul12.06:106:08
Aug12.06:086:07
Sep12.05:585:58
Oct12.05:485:49
Nov12.05:485:49
Dec12.05:586:01

Sunny days

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

Kayna 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 7 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.8 months, from around May 15 to Sep 6. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 7 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is October, down near 1 sunny days — about 91% fewer than the July peak.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedJul 137 daysOct 180 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan3Gloomy
Feb3Gloomy
Mar2Gloomy
Apr1Gloomy
May3Gloomy
Jun6Gloomy
Jul7Gloomy
Aug5Gloomy
Sep2Gloomy
Oct1Gloomy
Nov1Gloomy
Dec2Gloomy

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 Kayna, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.2 months, from around February 23 to May 31. The muggiest month is May, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 68% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around June 1 to October 9, and July is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 93% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 12 · 95%May 2 · 15%humidcomfortabledryhumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan55540
Feb95239
Mar14256
Apr02476
May13167
Jun76825
Jul21727
Aug107218
Sep26731
Oct05544
Nov04852
Dec15643

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

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmMay 22 · 5 km/hJul 28 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb5calm
Mar5calm
Apr5calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct5calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Kayna

In seasonPeak

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

Kayna's rainy season runs September–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 Kayna

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early June, Kayna is still near the start of its best-weather window — great conditions with the peak-season crowds not yet at full swing.

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 Kayna for general outdoor tourist activities is from late May to late August, with a peak score in the second week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 11 · 7.0

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
Jan5.1fair
Feb5.4fair
Mar5.0fair
Apr4.5fair
May5.1fair
Jun6.2good
Jul6.7good
Aug5.7good
Sep5.1fair
Oct4.4fair
Nov4.3fair
Dec4.8fair

The beach/pool score favors clear, rainless days with daytime highs between 24°C and 34°C. Based on this score, the best times of year to visit Kayna for hot-weather activities run from late January to mid March and again from late May to late August, with a peak score in the second week of July.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 12 · 5.8

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 Kayna, 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.

Kayna packs about the same all year — highs hold near 25°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, Kayna sees daytime highs around 25°C and nights near 16°C. Pack rain gear and sun protection. Worth having: light clothes. About 16 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Kayna 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 Kayna peaks around March 16 at about 16 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 22 at about 10 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 16UV 16Jun 22UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar16Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun10Extreme
Jul10Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct14Extreme
Nov12Extreme
Dec11Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Kayna

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 8.5 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 7 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
Feb8.56.5
Mar8.57
Apr86.5
May86
Jun7.55
Jul7.55
Aug7.55.5
Sep86.5
Oct86.5
Nov86
Dec86

Air quality in Kayna 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 Kayna is worst in July — around 80 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

0306090JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyJul 1579 µg/m³Oct 2057 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan72Unhealthy
Feb76Unhealthy
Mar62Unhealthy
Apr59Unhealthy
May60Unhealthy
Jun74Unhealthy
Jul80Unhealthy
Aug70Unhealthy
Sep60Unhealthy
Oct57Unhealthy
Nov58Unhealthy
Dec65Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Kayna 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. Kayna banks about 3,662 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around February.

01,0002,0003,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan311
Feb293
Mar324
Apr309
May314
Jun294
Jul297
Aug305
Sep303
Oct311
Nov295
Dec306

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.

Kayna receives about 5.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 5.2 and 6.1 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 66.1 kWhJun 185.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.0Bright
Feb6.1Intense
Mar6.0Bright
Apr5.7Bright
May5.5Bright
Jun5.2Bright
Jul5.4Bright
Aug5.5Bright
Sep5.7Bright
Oct5.6Bright
Nov5.5Bright
Dec5.7Bright

Where is Kayna?

Kayna sits at 0.6°S, 29.2°E, 1,753 m above sea level, in Democratic Republic of the Congo. The nearest listed city is Kanyobagonga, 10 km away.

Topography around Kayna

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Kayna has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 460 m around an average of 1,691 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,543 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,208 m.

The land around Kayna is covered by grassland (52%) and trees (37%) within 3 km, grassland (58%) and trees (34%) within 16 km, and trees (62%) and grassland (23%) within 80 km.

3 km
460 m
16 km
1,543 m
80 km
2,208 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Kanyobagonga 10 km · Katanda 32 km · Lubero 51 km · Kirumba 55 km · Kihihi 61 km · Rutshuru 71 km · Kanungu 79 km · Katwa 79 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 Kayna (-0.6093°, 29.1725°, elevation 1,753 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).