Climate and average weather in Luebo

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

Best: early May to late August

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Luebo typically varies from 21°C to 32°C, and is rarely below 19°C or above 35°C. July is the hottest month of the year, while November is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Jul
32°
Coldest
Nov
22°
Wettest
Nov
166 mm
Driest
Jul
8 mm
Rain / yr
1308 mm
199 wet days
Daylight
11.7–12.3 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
498 m
5.4°S
Clearest
Jul
48% cloud

Luebo is locality, capital of the territory of the province of Kasaï in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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

Luebo 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 May to late August.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Luebo stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is July, with an average high of 32°C and low of 21°C; the coolest is November, with an average low of 22°C and high of 29°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in July.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2922
Feb3022
Mar3022
Apr2922
May3022
Jun3121
Jul3221
Aug3122
Sep3022
Oct3022
Nov2922
Dec2922

How hot and cold Luebo 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, Luebo feels like about 34°C (around February 24). About 337 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in February.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan33292222
Feb34302222
Mar33302222
Apr33292222
May33302222
Jun33312121
Jul32322121
Aug33312222
Sep33302222
Oct33302222
Nov32292222
Dec32292222

Average hourly temperature in Luebo

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 July afternoons, near 32°C, and coldest before dawn in November, near 22°C.

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

Luebo 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° / 22°13820.512.33.8
Feb30° / 22°13018.712.23.6
Mar30° / 22°15921.6123.6
Apr29° / 22°1522111.93.7
May30° / 22°6612.311.84.7
Jun31° / 21°132.811.75.2
Jul32° / 21°81.911.74.8
Aug31° / 22°5410.311.84.4
Sep30° / 22°11419.8123.7
Oct30° / 22°15423.612.13.5
Nov29° / 22°16623.612.23.6
Dec29° / 22°15722.712.33.8

Chance of rain

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

Luebo gets about 1308 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 8.0 months, from around Sep 4 to May 5, peaking in November at about 79% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 4.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 166 mm over about 24 wet days; July is the driest, with 8 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetNov 7 · 79%Jul 4 · 4%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan6621
Feb6719
Mar7022
Apr6921
May3912
Jun103
Jul72
Aug3410
Sep6520
Oct7624
Nov7824
Dec7323

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Luebo collects about 1308 mm of rain across 199 wet days — roughly 109 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 166 mm, while July is the driest at just 8 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 37% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150175200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1381301591526613854114154166157
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan13821
Feb13019
Mar15922
Apr15221
May6612
Jun133
Jul82
Aug5410
Sep11420
Oct15424
Nov16624
Dec15723

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Luebo, 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 6 and lasts for 4.6 months, ending around September 22. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 63% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 23 and lasts for 7.4 months, ending around May 5. The cloudiest month is December, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 88% 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 7 · 66%Jan 23 · 12%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1387
Feb1585
Mar1486
Apr1981
May3862
Jun5941
Jul6337
Aug4852
Sep3268
Oct1981
Nov1585
Dec1288

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, Luebo 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)
Jan12.36:356:52
Feb12.26:446:54
Mar12.06:436:45
Apr11.96:386:31
May11.86:386:23
Jun11.76:446:25
Jul11.76:486:31
Aug11.86:446:33
Sep12.06:306:28
Oct12.16:166:23
Nov12.26:126:27
Dec12.36:216:40

Sunny days

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

Luebo averages about 4 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 14 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.2 months, from around May 7 to Sep 11. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 13 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is December, down near 1 sunny days — about 95% fewer than the July peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedbrightJul 1114 daysDec 191 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan1Gloomy
Feb1Gloomy
Mar1Gloomy
Apr2Gloomy
May7Gloomy
Jun12Mixed
Jul13Mixed
Aug7Gloomy
Sep4Gloomy
Oct2Gloomy
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 Luebo, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 9.6 months, from around August 14 to May 31. 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 1 to August 13, and July is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 27% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 12 · 33%Jan 1 · 0%oppressivemuggyhumidcomfortabledryhumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan0006930
Feb0004951
Mar0001972
Apr0001981
May00213850
Jun5122030330
Jul1314254350
Aug141056290
Sep00021790
Oct0007930
Nov0004960
Dec0004960

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

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmAug 11 · 6 km/hNov 30 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan4calm
Feb4calm
Mar4calm
Apr4calm
May4calm
Jun5calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep5calm
Oct4calm
Nov4calm
Dec4calm

Best time to visit Luebo

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid August, Luebo 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 Luebo for general outdoor tourist activities is from early May to late August, with a peak score in the second week of June.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 10 · 5.2

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
Jan3.8fair
Feb3.6fair
Mar3.6fair
Apr3.7fair
May4.7fair
Jun5.1fair
Jul4.8fair
Aug4.4fair
Sep3.7fair
Oct3.5poor
Nov3.6fair
Dec3.7fair

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 22 · 7.9

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 Luebo, 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.

Luebo packs about the same all year — highs hold near 32°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, sun protection and rain gear.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In July, Luebo sees daytime highs around 32°C and nights near 21°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Luebo 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 Luebo peaks around March 17 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near August 13 at about 4 (moderate).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highHighModerateExtremeMar 17UV 14Aug 13UV 4
UV index (midday)Level
Jan12Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May9Very high
Jun8Very high
Jul6High
Aug4Moderate
Sep11Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov12Extreme
Dec10Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Luebo

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 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
Feb86.5
Mar8.56.5
Apr86
May74.5
Jun6.53.5
Jul61.5
Aug4.50
Sep7.55.5
Oct86
Nov86
Dec85.5

Air quality in Luebo 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 Luebo is worst in August — around 148 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 12.1× the cleanest month (November, 12 µg/m³).

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

0306090120150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateUnhealthyModerateAug 14140 µg/m³Nov 1713 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan21Moderate
Feb29Moderate
Mar18Moderate
Apr15Moderate
May28Moderate
Jun47Poor
Jul97Unhealthy
Aug148Unhealthy
Sep39Poor
Oct16Moderate
Nov12Moderate
Dec15Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Luebo 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. Luebo banks about 5,768 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan483
Feb448
Mar493
Apr471
May492
Jun479
Jul508
Aug509
Sep477
Oct482
Nov454
Dec472

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.

Luebo receives about 5.1 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.8 and 5.4 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 215.4 kWhApr 304.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.2Bright
Feb5.4Bright
Mar5.3Bright
Apr4.9Bright
May4.9Bright
Jun5.1Bright
Jul5.2Bright
Aug5.0Bright
Sep5.2Bright
Oct5.3Bright
Nov5.1Bright
Dec5.0Bright

Where is Luebo?

Luebo sits at 5.4°S, 21.4°E, 498 m above sea level, in Democratic Republic of the Congo. The nearest listed city is Mweka, 58 km away.

KanangaTshikapaIleboIdiofaKabeya-KamwangaDibaya-Lubwe

Topography around Luebo

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Luebo has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 183 m around an average of 448 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 273 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 395 m.

The land around Luebo is covered by trees (50%) and shrubs (36%) within 3 km, trees (76%) and shrubs (20%) within 16 km, and trees (81%) within 80 km.

3 km
183 m
16 km
273 m
80 km
395 m
treesshrubsgrasslandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Mweka 58 km · Demba 95 km · Kananga 126 km · Tshikapa 137 km · Ilebo 146 km · Idiofa 207 km · Kabeya-Kamwanga 215 km · Dibaya-Lubwe 218 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 Luebo (-5.3522°, 21.4219°, elevation 498 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).