Climate and average weather in Njoro

In Njoro, the weather is warm, showery, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near warm levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around April.

Best: early January to mid April

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Njoro typically varies from 12°C to 27°C, and is rarely below 10°C or above 30°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 Njoro for warm-weather activities are from early January to mid April and early May to late July.

Hottest
Mar
27°
Coldest
Jul
12°
Wettest
Apr
104 mm
Driest
Feb
17 mm
Rain / yr
700 mm
110 wet days
Daylight
12.0–12.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
2,169 m
0.3°S
Clearest
Feb
54% cloud

Njoro 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 January to mid April.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Njoro stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is March, with an average high of 27°C and low of 13°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 12°C and high of 23°C.

Days typically run about 12°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in February.

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2613
Feb2713
Mar2713
Apr2514
May2414
Jun2313
Jul2312
Aug2312
Sep2412
Oct2413
Nov2413
Dec2413

Average hourly temperature in Njoro

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 27°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 12°C.

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

Njoro 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
Jan26° / 13°193.8127.7
Feb27° / 13°172.6127.6
Mar27° / 13°486.5127.0
Apr25° / 14°10412.9126.1
May24° / 14°689.3127.0
Jun23° / 13°499.6126.8
Jul23° / 12°5511.2126.4
Aug23° / 12°7213126.2
Sep24° / 12°518.4127.1
Oct24° / 13°8711.1126.6
Nov24° / 13°9214.7126.0
Dec24° / 13°387.3127.4

Chance of rain

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

Njoro gets about 700 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 1.9 months, from around Oct 12 to Dec 7, peaking in November at about 51% 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 104 mm over about 13 wet days; February is the driest, with 17 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetNov 9 · 51%Feb 1 · 9%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan134
Feb103
Mar207
Apr4313
May319
Jun3110
Jul3511
Aug4313
Sep288
Oct3611
Nov4815
Dec247

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Njoro collects about 700 mm of rain across 110 wet days — roughly 58 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. April is the wettest month with 104 mm, while February is the driest at just 17 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 40% of the year’s total.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1917481046849557251879238
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan194
Feb173
Mar487
Apr10413
May689
Jun4910
Jul5511
Aug7213
Sep518
Oct8711
Nov9215
Dec387

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Njoro, 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 December 9 and lasts for 3.6 months, ending around March 29. The clearest month is February, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 58% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 7 and lasts for 2.1 months, ending around December 8. The cloudiest month is November, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 70% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 26 · 61%Nov 7 · 27%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5545
Feb5842
Mar5248
Apr3565
May4852
Jun4258
Jul3664
Aug3862
Sep5347
Oct3664
Nov3070
Dec4951

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, Njoro 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)
Jan12.06:456:46
Feb12.06:506:51
Mar12.06:466:46
Apr12.06:376:36
May12.06:336:32
Jun12.06:376:36
Jul12.06:426:41
Aug12.06:416:40
Sep12.06:316:30
Oct12.06:216:21
Nov12.06:216:22
Dec12.06:326:33

Sunny days

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

Njoro averages about 6 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 10 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.8 months, from around Dec 8 to Apr 1. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 10 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is November, down near 3 sunny days — about 73% fewer than the February peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyergloomymixedFeb 2610 daysNov 102 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan9Mixed
Feb9Mixed
Mar9Mixed
Apr4Gloomy
May7Gloomy
Jun5Gloomy
Jul3Gloomy
Aug4Gloomy
Sep7Gloomy
Oct4Gloomy
Nov3Gloomy
Dec7Gloomy

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 Njoro, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in January, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 0% of the time — humidity is not something you need to plan around here.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccomfortabledry
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)
Jan919
Feb946
Mar8614
Apr5941
May6139
Jun7624
Jul8713
Aug8416
Sep8812
Oct7921
Nov6634
Dec8119

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 Njoro is steady company: average speeds sit near 6 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeFeb 6 · 7 km/hOct 31 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar7calm
Apr5calm
May6calm
Jun6calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct5calm
Nov5calm
Dec6calm

Best time to visit Njoro

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 20 · 7.7

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
Jan7.7ideal
Feb7.5ideal
Mar7.0good
Apr6.1good
May7.0good
Jun6.8good
Jul6.4good
Aug6.2good
Sep7.1good
Oct6.6good
Nov6.0good
Dec7.3good

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 Njoro for hot-weather activities run from mid September to early October and again from mid December to early April, with a peak score in the last week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 24 · 7.8

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 Njoro, 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.

Njoro packs about the same all year — highs hold near 27°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, Njoro sees daytime highs around 27°C and nights near 13°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 7 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Njoro 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 Njoro peaks around March 15 at about 17 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 19 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 19UV 11
UV index (midday)Level
Jan16Extreme
Feb16Extreme
Mar17Extreme
Apr16Extreme
May13Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep14Extreme
Oct15Extreme
Nov14Extreme
Dec13Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Njoro

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
Feb8.57
Mar8.57
Apr8.56.5
May86
Jun7.55.5
Jul86
Aug86
Sep8.56.5
Oct86.5
Nov86.5
Dec86.5

Air quality in Njoro 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 Njoro is worst in June — around 38 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

010203040JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateJun 2338 µg/m³Jan 1227 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan27Moderate
Feb29Moderate
Mar32Moderate
Apr28Moderate
May31Moderate
Jun38Poor
Jul37Poor
Aug32Moderate
Sep30Moderate
Oct28Moderate
Nov28Moderate
Dec27Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Njoro 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. Njoro banks about 3,188 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)
Jan280
Feb275
Mar318
Apr292
May281
Jun247
Jul231
Aug233
Sep248
Oct270
Nov249
Dec263

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.

Njoro receives about 6.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.9 and 7.1 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 4.1 months, from around Dec 13 to Apr 15. The brightest month is February, averaging about 7.1 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is July, down near 5.0 kWh/m² — roughly 29% less than the February peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 287.1 kWhJul 244.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.6Intense
Feb7.1Intense
Mar6.9Intense
Apr6.0Intense
May5.8Bright
Jun5.3Bright
Jul5.0Bright
Aug5.4Bright
Sep6.3Intense
Oct6.2Intense
Nov5.7Bright
Dec6.0Intense

Where is Njoro?

Njoro sits at 0.3°S, 35.9°E, 2,169 m above sea level, in Kenya. The nearest listed city is Nakuru, 14 km away.

Topography around Njoro

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Njoro has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 168 m around an average of 2,166 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,254 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,993 m.

The land around Njoro is covered by cropland (51%) within 3 km, cropland (48%) and trees (25%) within 16 km, and trees (37%), cropland (25%) and grassland (20%) within 80 km.

3 km
168 m
16 km
1,254 m
80 km
2,993 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Nakuru 14 km · Elburgon 15 km · Rongai 20 km · Molo 25 km · Upper Gilgil 39 km · Gilgil 46 km · Ol Kalou 49 km · Eldama Ravine 49 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 Njoro (-0.3302°, 35.9445°, elevation 2,169 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).