Climate and average weather in Loudima

In Loudima, the weather is muggy, hot, wet, and mostly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near hot levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around December.

Best: early June to mid September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Loudima typically varies from 20°C to 32°C, and is rarely below 18°C or above 34°C. March is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Loudima for warm-weather activities is from early June to mid September.

Hottest
Mar
32°
Coldest
Jul
20°
Wettest
Dec
191 mm
Driest
Jul
1 mm
Rain / yr
1115 mm
172 wet days
Daylight
11.8–12.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
150 m
4.1°S
Clearest
May
75% cloud

Loudima is human settlement in Republic of the Congo.

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

Loudima 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 June to mid September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Loudima stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is March, with an average high of 32°C and low of 23°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 20°C and high of 27°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights year-round.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3123
Feb3123
Mar3223
Apr3123
May3123
Jun2821
Jul2720
Aug2820
Sep2921
Oct3123
Nov3123
Dec3023

How hot and cold Loudima 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, Loudima feels like about 36°C (around April 2). About 246 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in April.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan35312323
Feb36312323
Mar36322323
Apr36312323
May34312323
Jun30282121
Jul29271920
Aug29282020
Sep31292121
Oct34312323
Nov34312323
Dec34302323

Average hourly temperature in Loudima

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 32°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 20°C.

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

Loudima 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
Jan31° / 23°15123.112.23.1
Feb31° / 23°13320.212.13.0
Mar32° / 23°13521.1122.9
Apr31° / 23°14621.311.93.0
May31° / 23°6814.211.84.1
Jun28° / 21°30.611.86.7
Jul27° / 20°10.311.87.2
Aug28° / 20°30.711.96.9
Sep29° / 21°113.1125.7
Oct31° / 23°921612.13.7
Nov31° / 23°18025.212.22.9
Dec30° / 23°19126.112.23.0

Chance of rain

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

Loudima gets about 1115 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 7.1 months, from around Oct 13 to May 15, peaking in December at about 86% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jun 22.

December is the wettest month by volume, with 191 mm over about 26 wet days; July is the driest, with 1 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetDec 2 · 86%Jun 22 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan7523
Feb7120
Mar6921
Apr7021
May4514
Jun31
Jul10
Aug21
Sep113
Oct5216
Nov8325
Dec8326

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Loudima collects about 1115 mm of rain across 172 wet days — roughly 93 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. December is the wettest month with 191 mm, while July is the driest at just 1 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 47% of the year’s total.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec151133135146683131192180191
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan15123
Feb13320
Mar13521
Apr14621
May6814
Jun31
Jul10
Aug31
Sep113
Oct9216
Nov18025
Dec19126

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Loudima, 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 March 26 and lasts for 4.0 months, ending around July 25. The clearest month is May, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 23% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around July 26 and lasts for 2.7 months, ending around October 14. The cloudiest month is September, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 97% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMay 17 · 27%Sep 2 · 1%partly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1288
Feb1387
Mar1387
Apr1684
May2377
Jun1783
Jul1486
Aug694
Sep397
Oct1486
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, Loudima 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)
Jan12.26:116:23
Feb12.16:186:26
Mar12.06:176:18
Apr11.96:116:05
May11.86:105:58
Jun11.86:156:01
Jul11.86:206:07
Aug11.96:166:08
Sep12.06:036:01
Oct12.15:505:56
Nov12.25:475:59
Dec12.25:576:11

Sunny days

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

Loudima gets about 1 sunny days a month gloomy — and it barely shifts through the year, holding between 0 and 2 days every month. Clear skies here are a flat line, not a season.

05JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgloomyJul 192 daysSep 20 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan0Gloomy
Feb1Gloomy
Mar1Gloomy
Apr1Gloomy
May1Gloomy
Jun1Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep0Gloomy
Oct0Gloomy
Nov0Gloomy
Dec0Gloomy

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.

Loudima 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 100% of the time. Even in July, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 1% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmiserablemuggyoppressivehumid
Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)Miserable (%)
Jan000946
Feb0018911
Mar0008614
Apr0018317
May008875
Jun0769250
Jul1336610
Aug1237600
Sep038980
Oct0034660
Nov003970
Dec000981

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

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmAug 30 · 6 km/hApr 25 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan4calm
Feb4calm
Mar4calm
Apr4calm
May4calm
Jun5calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct5calm
Nov4calm
Dec4calm

Hazard calendar for Loudima

In seasonPeak

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

Loudima's rainy season runs October–April, when most of the year's rain falls.

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

Best time to visit Loudima

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early September, Loudima 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 Loudima for general outdoor tourist activities is from early June to mid September, with a peak score in the third week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 19 · 7.3

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
Jan3.1poor
Feb3.0poor
Mar2.9poor
Apr3.0poor
May4.2fair
Jun6.6good
Jul7.2good
Aug6.9good
Sep5.7good
Oct3.8fair
Nov2.9poor
Dec3.0poor

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 Loudima for hot-weather activities is from late May to early October, with a peak score in the third week of June.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJun 16 · 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 Loudima, 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.

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

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In March, Loudima sees daytime highs around 32°C and nights near 23°C. Pack light clothes and rain gear. Worth having: sun protection. About 21 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Loudima 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 Loudima peaks around March 16 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 22 at about 6 (high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highHighVery highExtremeMar 16UV 15Jun 22UV 6
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb13Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May9Very high
Jun6High
Jul7High
Aug7High
Sep11Extreme
Oct14Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec10Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Loudima

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)
Jan8.56.5
Feb86
Mar8.56.5
Apr86
May74.5
Jun62
Jul62.5
Aug6.53
Sep7.55.5
Oct86
Nov7.55.5
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Loudima 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 Loudima is worst in July — around 47 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 3.6× the cleanest month (November, 13 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateJul 1946 µg/m³Nov 1413 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan17Moderate
Feb19Moderate
Mar16Moderate
Apr14Moderate
May22Moderate
Jun36Poor
Jul47Poor
Aug41Poor
Sep23Moderate
Oct14Moderate
Nov13Moderate
Dec15Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Loudima 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. Loudima banks about 5,846 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around March.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan518
Feb480
Mar539
Apr519
May517
Jun436
Jul416
Aug429
Sep458
Oct522
Nov502
Dec512

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.

Loudima receives about 4.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 3.4 and 5.0 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.9 months, from around Oct 12 to May 8. The brightest month is March, averaging about 5.0 kWh/m² (bright).

The dimmest month is August, down near 3.4 kWh/m² — roughly 30% less than the March peak.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightMar 85.0 kWhAug 263.4 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan4.7Bright
Feb4.9Bright
Mar5.0Bright
Apr4.6Bright
May4.0Bright
Jun3.5Moderate
Jul3.6Moderate
Aug3.4Moderate
Sep3.5Moderate
Oct4.3Bright
Nov4.5Bright
Dec4.4Bright

Where is Loudima?

Loudima sits at 4.1°S, 13.1°E, 150 m above sea level, in Republic of the Congo. The nearest listed city is Nkayi, 25 km away.

SibitiBelizeBouansaLoutétéBuco Zau

Topography around Loudima

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Loudima has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 85 m around an average of 139 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 300 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 807 m.

The land around Loudima is covered by trees (49%) and grassland (30%) within 3 km, grassland (66%) within 16 km, and trees (51%) and grassland (47%) within 80 km.

3 km
85 m
16 km
300 m
80 km
807 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwater
Nearby: Nkayi 25 km · Kayes 26 km · Dolisie 45 km · Sibiti 58 km · Belize 68 km · Bouansa 78 km · Loutété 89 km · Buco Zau 92 km

Republic of the Congo travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 2
Exercise Increased Caution
Power plugs
Type C / E
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 35% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$2,515
2025
Happiness
4.5 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
46%
of population, 2021
Road deaths
29.7
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Lower middle
World Bank
Religion
Roman Catholic 33%Awakening Churches/Christian Revival 22%Protestant 20%none 11%

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 Loudima (-4.1162°, 13.0676°, elevation 150 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).