Climate and average weather in Mangai

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

Best: late May to mid August

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Mangai typically varies from 22°C to 31°C, and is rarely below 20°C or above 33°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 Mangai for warm-weather activities is from late May to mid August.

Hottest
Jul
31°
Coldest
Nov
22°
Wettest
Nov
176 mm
Driest
Jul
19 mm
Rain / yr
1423 mm
219 wet days
Daylight
11.8–12.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
342 m
4.0°S
Clearest
Jul
55% cloud

Mangai is place in Kwilu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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

Mangai 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 August.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Mangai stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is July, with an average high of 31°C and low of 22°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 year-round.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3023
Feb3023
Mar3023
Apr3023
May3023
Jun3022
Jul3122
Aug3022
Sep3022
Oct3022
Nov2922
Dec2922

How hot and cold Mangai 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, Mangai feels like about 34°C (around February 24). Nearly every day a year carries 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)
Jan33302323
Feb34302323
Mar34302323
Apr34302323
May34302323
Jun33302222
Jul33312222
Aug33302222
Sep34302222
Oct33302222
Nov32292222
Dec33292222

Average hourly temperature in Mangai

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 31°C, and coldest before dawn in November, near 22°C.

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

Mangai 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
Jan30° / 23°1342012.23.7
Feb30° / 23°14118.112.13.6
Mar30° / 23°15422.2123.4
Apr30° / 23°15722.411.93.5
May30° / 23°981711.84.2
Jun30° / 22°276.311.85.3
Jul31° / 22°194.611.85.2
Aug30° / 22°6513.611.94.3
Sep30° / 22°12221.8123.5
Oct30° / 22°16925.312.13.3
Nov29° / 22°17624.212.23.4
Dec29° / 22°16223.512.23.5

Chance of rain

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

Mangai gets about 1423 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 8.3 months, from around Aug 31 to May 10, peaking in October at about 83% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 3.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 176 mm over about 24 wet days; July is the driest, with 19 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetOct 26 · 83%Jul 3 · 12%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan6520
Feb6518
Mar7122
Apr7422
May5517
Jun226
Jul165
Aug4414
Sep7122
Oct8125
Nov8124
Dec7624

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Mangai collects about 1423 mm of rain across 219 wet days — roughly 119 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 176 mm, while July is the driest at just 19 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 36% of the year’s total.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec13414115415798271965122169176162
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan13420
Feb14118
Mar15422
Apr15722
May9817
Jun276
Jul195
Aug6514
Sep12222
Oct16925
Nov17624
Dec16224

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Mangai, 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 13 and lasts for 4.5 months, ending around September 27. The clearest month is June, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 56% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 28 and lasts for 7.5 months, ending around May 12. The cloudiest month is January, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 85% 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 22 · 61%Jan 19 · 14%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1585
Feb1684
Mar1684
Apr2080
May3169
Jun5644
Jul5545
Aug4258
Sep3268
Oct2179
Nov1981
Dec1684

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, Mangai 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)
Jan12.25:455:57
Feb12.15:536:00
Mar12.05:515:52
Apr11.95:455:39
May11.85:445:33
Jun11.85:495:35
Jul11.85:545:41
Aug11.95:505:42
Sep12.05:375:36
Oct12.15:245:30
Nov12.25:225:33
Dec12.25:315:45

Sunny days

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

Mangai 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 11 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.0 months, from around May 9 to Sep 6. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 10 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is December, down near 1 sunny days — about 90% fewer than the July peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedJul 511 daysDec 221 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan1Gloomy
Feb1Gloomy
Mar1Gloomy
Apr2Gloomy
May5Gloomy
Jun10Mixed
Jul10Mixed
Aug6Gloomy
Sep3Gloomy
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.

Mangai is humid all year round — on a typical day the air feels at least humid, and there is no real dry season to wait for.

The stickiest month is January, when it feels muggy, oppressive or miserable about 99% of the time. Even in July, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 2% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmiserableoppressivemuggyhumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan0003942
Feb0001927
Mar00009010
Apr00008911
May0002926
Jun01526680
Jul121150370
Aug00333640
Sep0005950
Oct0001990
Nov0001990
Dec0001990

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

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmAug 1 · 7 km/hDec 5 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan4calm
Feb4calm
Mar4calm
Apr4calm
May4calm
Jun5calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct5calm
Nov4calm
Dec4calm

Best time to visit Mangai

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 24 · 5.5

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
Jan3.7fair
Feb3.6fair
Mar3.4poor
Apr3.5poor
May4.2fair
Jun5.3fair
Jul5.1fair
Aug4.3fair
Sep3.6fair
Oct3.3poor
Nov3.5poor
Dec3.5fair

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

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 30 · 7.7

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 Mangai, 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.

Mangai packs about the same all year — highs hold near 31°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, Mangai sees daytime highs around 31°C and nights near 22°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: sun protection. About 5 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Mangai 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 Mangai peaks around March 17 at about 14 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near August 14 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 14UV 4
UV index (midday)Level
Jan12Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar14Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May9Very high
Jun8Very high
Jul7High
Aug4Moderate
Sep10Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov13Extreme
Dec9Very high

Average hourly UV index in Mangai

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 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
Mar86
Apr86
May74.5
Jun6.53.5
Jul62.5
Aug4.50
Sep7.55
Oct86
Nov86
Dec7.55

Air quality in Mangai 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 Mangai is worst in August — around 116 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 10.3× the cleanest month (November, 11 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorUnhealthyModerateModerateAug 16108 µg/m³Nov 1312 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan19Moderate
Feb24Moderate
Mar17Moderate
Apr13Moderate
May23Moderate
Jun39Poor
Jul53Poor
Aug116Unhealthy
Sep45Poor
Oct13Moderate
Nov11Good
Dec15Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Mangai 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. Mangai banks about 5,879 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)
Jan501
Feb460
Mar508
Apr486
May503
Jun481
Jul503
Aug505
Sep482
Oct490
Nov469
Dec490

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.

Mangai 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.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightFeb 195.4 kWhMay 24.8 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.2Bright
Feb5.4Bright
Mar5.3Bright
Apr4.9Bright
May4.8Bright
Jun5.0Bright
Jul5.1Bright
Aug5.1Bright
Sep5.3Bright
Oct5.2Bright
Nov5.0Bright
Dec5.0Bright

Where is Mangai?

Mangai sits at 4.0°S, 19.5°E, 342 m above sea level, in Democratic Republic of the Congo. The nearest listed city is Dibaya-Lubwe, 39 km away.

IleboKikwitMasi-ManimbaKutu

Topography around Mangai

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Mangai has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 109 m around an average of 354 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 208 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 367 m.

The land around Mangai is covered by trees (47%) and water (33%) within 3 km, trees (79%) within 16 km, and trees (81%) within 80 km.

3 km
109 m
16 km
208 m
80 km
367 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Dibaya-Lubwe 39 km · Dungu 88 km · Idiofa 105 km · Bulungu 118 km · Ilebo 122 km · Kikwit 138 km · Masi-Manimba 200 km · Kutu 211 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 Mangai (-4.0233°, 19.5339°, elevation 342 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).