Climate and average weather in Kenol

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

Best: late May to mid October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Kenol typically varies from 13°C to 27°C, and is rarely below 11°C or above 29°C. February is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Kenol for warm-weather activities are from early January to late March and late May to mid October.

Hottest
Feb
27°
Coldest
Jul
13°
Wettest
Apr
179 mm
Driest
Sep
23 mm
Rain / yr
914 mm
161 wet days
Daylight
11.9–12.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,610 m
0.9°S
Clearest
Feb
49% cloud

Kenol 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 October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Kenol stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 27°C and low of 14°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 13°C and high of 22°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 12°C) in February.

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2514
Feb2714
Mar2615
Apr2516
May2315
Jun2214
Jul2213
Aug2213
Sep2413
Oct2515
Nov2315
Dec2414

Average hourly temperature in Kenol

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 27°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 13°C.

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

Kenol 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° / 14°418.3127.3
Feb27° / 14°315.8127.2
Mar26° / 15°7514.1126.1
Apr25° / 16°17925124.5
May23° / 15°13620.6125.2
Jun22° / 14°5310.911.96.1
Jul22° / 13°267126.5
Aug22° / 13°328.9126.4
Sep24° / 13°236.2127.3
Oct25° / 15°8514.4126.2
Nov23° / 15°16123.8124.7
Dec24° / 14°7215.612.16.2

Chance of rain

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

Kenol gets about 914 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is often wet, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 2.5 months, from around Mar 16 to May 31, peaking in April at about 87% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 1.

April is the wettest month by volume, with 179 mm over about 25 wet days; September is the driest, with 23 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 24 · 87%Feb 1 · 19%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan278
Feb226
Mar4514
Apr8225
May6621
Jun3611
Jul237
Aug289
Sep226
Oct4714
Nov7724
Dec5116

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Kenol collects about 914 mm of rain across 161 wet days — roughly 76 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. April is the wettest month with 179 mm, while September is the driest at just 23 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 52% of the year’s total.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec413175179136532632238516172
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan418
Feb316
Mar7514
Apr17925
May13621
Jun5311
Jul267
Aug329
Sep236
Oct8514
Nov16124
Dec7216

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Kenol, 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 November 26 and lasts for 4.6 months, ending around April 14. The clearest month is February, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 64% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around May 27 and lasts for 3.6 months, ending around September 13. The cloudiest month is July, 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMar 1 · 66%Jul 27 · 9%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6337
Feb6436
Mar6139
Apr4060
May3961
Jun2080
Jul1189
Aug1486
Sep4060
Oct4258
Nov3664
Dec5941

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, Kenol barely changes through the year: days stay near 12 h 06 min of light in every season.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan12.06:396:42
Feb12.06:456:47
Mar12.06:416:41
Apr12.06:326:31
May12.06:296:26
Jun11.96:336:30
Jul12.06:396:36
Aug12.06:376:35
Sep12.06:266:26
Oct12.06:166:17
Nov12.06:156:18
Dec12.16:266:29

Sunny days

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

Kenol averages about 6 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 4.1 months, from around Dec 2 to Apr 6. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 13 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is June, down near 1 sunny days — about 89% fewer than the February peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightFeb 2714 daysJun 251 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan13Mixed
Feb12Mixed
Mar12Mixed
Apr4Gloomy
May3Gloomy
Jun1Gloomy
Jul1Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep6Gloomy
Oct5Gloomy
Nov4Gloomy
Dec10Mixed

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 2.5 months, from around March 17 to June 1. The muggiest month is April, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 56% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around June 2 to October 23, and July is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 100% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 28 · 100%Apr 29 · 35%humidcomfortabledryhumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan355313
Feb48448
Mar305020
Apr34056
May45443
Jun23698
Jul59410
Aug68320
Sep70300
Oct394913
Nov46135
Dec136423

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 Kenol is typically calm, near 7 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.4 months, from around Sep 24 to Apr 7. The windiest month is February, averaging about 9 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 8 to Sep 23, with June the calmest month at about 5 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeFeb 24 · 9 km/hJun 12 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan8calm
Feb9calm
Mar8calm
Apr6calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct7calm
Nov7calm
Dec8calm

Best time to visit Kenol

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early June, Kenol 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 times of year to visit Kenol for general outdoor tourist activities run from late May to mid October and again from mid December to mid March, with a peak score in the last week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 30 · 7.5

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
Jan7.3good
Feb7.2good
Mar6.1good
Apr4.5fair
May5.2fair
Jun6.1good
Jul6.5good
Aug6.4good
Sep7.2good
Oct6.1good
Nov4.7fair
Dec6.2good

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 Kenol for hot-weather activities run from early September to mid October and again from late December to late March, with a peak score in the first week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 3 · 7.2

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 Kenol, 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.

Kenol packs about the same all year — highs hold near 27°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Kenol sees daytime highs around 27°C and nights near 14°C. Pack sun protection. Worth having: light clothes. About 6 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Kenol 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 Kenol peaks around March 16 at about 16 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 18 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 18UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan15Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar16Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun10Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct14Extreme
Nov13Extreme
Dec13Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Kenol

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)
Jan8.56.5
Feb8.56.5
Mar8.57
Apr8.56.5
May86
Jun7.55.5
Jul7.55.5
Aug7.55.5
Sep86
Oct86.5
Nov86.5
Dec86

Air quality in Kenol 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 Kenol is worst in June — around 65 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

020406080JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorUnhealthyJun 1864 µg/m³Sep 2348 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan62Unhealthy
Feb59Unhealthy
Mar56Unhealthy
Apr56Unhealthy
May57Unhealthy
Jun65Unhealthy
Jul60Unhealthy
Aug51Poor
Sep48Poor
Oct48Poor
Nov60Unhealthy
Dec64Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Kenol 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. Kenol banks about 3,309 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around March.

01,0002,0003,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan294
Feb292
Mar333
Apr304
May284
Jun239
Jul222
Aug233
Sep262
Oct297
Nov271
Dec278

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.

Kenol receives about 5.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.0 and 6.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.4 months, from around Dec 4 to Apr 17. The brightest month is February, averaging about 6.7 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is July, down near 4.0 kWh/m² — roughly 41% less than the February peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 236.8 kWhJul 204.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.4Intense
Feb6.8Intense
Mar6.4Intense
Apr5.5Bright
May5.0Bright
Jun4.3Bright
Jul4.0Moderate
Aug4.4Bright
Sep5.7Bright
Oct5.8Bright
Nov5.2Bright
Dec5.8Bright

Where is Kenol?

Kenol sits at 0.9°S, 37.1°E, 1,610 m above sea level, in Kenya. The nearest listed city is Thika, 12 km away.

Topography around Kenol

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Kenol has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 155 m around an average of 1,499 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 587 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,103 m.

The land around Kenol is covered by cropland (55%) within 3 km, cropland (34%), trees (27%) and shrubs (20%) within 16 km, and shrubs (30%), trees (27%) and grassland (24%) within 80 km.

3 km
155 m
16 km
587 m
80 km
3,103 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Thika 12 km · Juja 22 km · Murang’a 24 km · Karuri 27 km · Ruiru 29 km · Wanguru 38 km · Githunguri 41 km · Kiambu 41 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 Kenol (-0.9373°, 37.1228°, elevation 1,610 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).