Climate and average weather in Kabarnet

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

Best: late August to early February

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Kabarnet typically varies from 16°C to 31°C, and is rarely below 13°C or above 33°C. March is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Kabarnet for warm-weather activities are from mid May to mid July and late August to early February.

Hottest
Mar
31°
Coldest
Jul
16°
Wettest
Jul
226 mm
Driest
Feb
9 mm
Rain / yr
912 mm
104 wet days
Daylight
12.0–12.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
2,048 m
0.5°N
Clearest
Jan
46% cloud

Kabarnet is human settlement.

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

Kabarnet 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 August to early February.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Kabarnet stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is March, with an average high of 31°C and low of 17°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 16°C and high of 25°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in February.

10°15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3016
Feb3117
Mar3117
Apr3018
May2918
Jun2717
Jul2516
Aug2616
Sep2716
Oct2817
Nov2817
Dec2917

Average hourly temperature in Kabarnet

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 31°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 16°C.

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

Kabarnet 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° / 16°132.9126.2
Feb31° / 17°91.7125.5
Mar31° / 17°254.1125.2
Apr30° / 18°779.8125.0
May29° / 18°789.9125.8
Jun27° / 17°12912.6126.0
Jul25° / 16°22618.1125.6
Aug26° / 16°18117.3125.7
Sep27° / 16°677.8126.9
Oct28° / 17°487.6126.5
Nov28° / 17°438.3126.5
Dec29° / 17°163.8126.6

Chance of rain

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

Kabarnet gets about 912 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 3.4 months, from around Jun 1 to Sep 11, peaking in July at about 66% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 23.

July is the wettest month by volume, with 226 mm over about 18 wet days; February is the driest, with 9 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetJul 27 · 66%Feb 23 · 5%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan93
Feb72
Mar134
Apr3310
May3310
Jun4113
Jul5718
Aug5617
Sep278
Oct258
Nov278
Dec124

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Kabarnet collects about 912 mm of rain across 104 wet days — roughly 76 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. July is the wettest month with 226 mm, while February is the driest at just 9 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 59% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec13925777812922618167484316
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan133
Feb92
Mar254
Apr7710
May7810
Jun12913
Jul22618
Aug18117
Sep678
Oct488
Nov438
Dec164

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Kabarnet, 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 August 25 and lasts for 1.5 months, ending around October 9. The clearest month is September, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 66% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around June 9 and lasts for 2.5 months, ending around August 24. The cloudiest month is July, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 55% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecSep 17 · 69%Jul 27 · 40%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6634
Feb6436
Mar6040
Apr4753
May5941
Jun5248
Jul4555
Aug5149
Sep6634
Oct5446
Nov4852
Dec6436

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, Kabarnet 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)
Jan12.06:476:46
Feb12.06:526:51
Mar12.06:476:47
Apr12.06:376:38
May12.06:336:34
Jun12.06:366:38
Jul12.06:426:43
Aug12.06:416:42
Sep12.06:316:31
Oct12.06:226:22
Nov12.06:236:22
Dec12.06:346:32

Sunny days

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

Kabarnet averages about 11 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 6 and 16 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.8 months, from around Dec 4 to Mar 30. The sunniest month is January, with roughly 15 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is July, down near 7 sunny days — about 52% fewer than the January peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightJan 2516 daysJul 276 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan15Mixed
Feb13Mixed
Mar13Mixed
Apr8Mixed
May12Mixed
Jun9Mixed
Jul7Gloomy
Aug9Mixed
Sep13Mixed
Oct10Mixed
Nov7Gloomy
Dec13Mixed

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.4 months, from around June 2 to September 14. The muggiest month is July, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 44% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around September 15 to April 17, and February is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 98% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 12 · 99%Jul 29 · 46%humidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan81153
Feb87112
Mar73234
Apr414118
May334225
Jun323830
Jul154144
Aug143849
Sep403920
Oct414612
Nov375112
Dec67294

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

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmFeb 26 · 7 km/hJul 28 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr5calm
May5calm
Jun4calm
Jul4calm
Aug4calm
Sep4calm
Oct5calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Kabarnet

In seasonPeak

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

Kabarnet's monsoon runs June–August, when most of the year's rain falls.

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

Best time to visit Kabarnet

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late January, Kabarnet 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 Kabarnet for general outdoor tourist activities run from mid May to mid July and again from late August to early February, with a peak score in the third week of September.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 19 · 7.2

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
Jan6.2good
Feb5.5good
Mar5.2fair
Apr5.0fair
May5.8good
Jun6.0good
Jul5.6good
Aug5.7good
Sep6.9good
Oct6.5good
Nov6.5good
Dec6.6good

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 Kabarnet for hot-weather activities run from mid May to early June and again from mid September to late April, with a peak score in the last week of December.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 28 · 8.4

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 Kabarnet, 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.

Kabarnet 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 March, Kabarnet sees daytime highs around 31°C and nights near 17°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 4 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Kabarnet 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 Kabarnet peaks around March 15 at about 17 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 20 at about 11 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 15UV 17Jun 20UV 11
UV index (midday)Level
Jan16Extreme
Feb16Extreme
Mar17Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep14Extreme
Oct15Extreme
Nov13Extreme
Dec13Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Kabarnet

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)
Jan8.57
Feb8.56.5
Mar8.57
Apr86.5
May86
Jun7.55.5
Jul85.5
Aug86
Sep86.5
Oct86.5
Nov86
Dec86

Air quality in Kabarnet 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 Kabarnet is worst in July — around 30 µg/m³ PM2.5 (moderate), about 1.9× the cleanest month (December, 16 µg/m³).

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateJul 1330 µg/m³Dec 2216 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan17Moderate
Feb18Moderate
Mar18Moderate
Apr18Moderate
May22Moderate
Jun29Moderate
Jul30Moderate
Aug25Moderate
Sep22Moderate
Oct18Moderate
Nov17Moderate
Dec16Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Kabarnet 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. Kabarnet banks about 4,583 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around March.

01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan402
Feb382
Mar439
Apr417
May408
Jun361
Jul334
Aug334
Sep350
Oct392
Nov374
Dec390

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.

Kabarnet receives about 6.3 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 5.2 and 7.1 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.0 months, from around Dec 22 to Apr 22. The brightest month is March, averaging about 7.0 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is July, down near 5.3 kWh/m² — roughly 25% less than the March peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 37.1 kWhJul 225.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.6Intense
Feb7.1Intense
Mar7.0Intense
Apr6.4Intense
May6.1Intense
Jun5.6Bright
Jul5.2Bright
Aug5.7Bright
Sep6.6Intense
Oct6.5Intense
Nov6.1Intense
Dec6.2Intense

Where is Kabarnet?

Kabarnet sits at 0.5°N, 35.7°E, 2,048 m above sea level, in Kenya. The nearest listed city is Iten, 33 km away.

RongaiKapsabetMoi‘s BridgeMoloNyahururu

Topography around Kabarnet

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Kabarnet has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 716 m around an average of 1,926 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,353 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,526 m.

The land around Kabarnet is covered by trees (59%) within 3 km, trees (60%) and shrubs (21%) within 16 km, and trees (32%), shrubs (30%) and cropland (23%) within 80 km.

3 km
716 m
16 km
1,353 m
80 km
2,526 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Iten 33 km · Eldama Ravine 49 km · Eldoret 53 km · Rongai 75 km · Kapsabet 78 km · Moi‘s Bridge 81 km · Molo 82 km · Nyahururu 85 km

Kenya travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type G
240 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 34% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$2,363
2025
Happiness
4.7 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Homicide rate
4.9
per 100k, 2022
Road deaths
28.3
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Lower middle
World Bank
English
High
EF EPI 593
Religion
Christian 86%Muslim 11%other 2%none 2%

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 Kabarnet (0.4919°, 35.743°, elevation 2,048 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).