Climate and average weather in Ngororero

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

Best: late May to mid September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Ngororero typically varies from 13°C to 23°C, and is rarely below 11°C or above 26°C. August is the hottest month of the year, while May is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Ngororero for warm-weather activities is from late May to mid September.

Hottest
Aug
23°
Coldest
May
14°
Wettest
Jan
182 mm
Driest
Jul
7 mm
Rain / yr
1261 mm
196 wet days
Daylight
11.9–12.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,654 m
1.9°S
Clearest
Jul
63% cloud

Ngororero is place in Western Province, Rwanda.

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

Ngororero 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 September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Ngororero stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is August, with an average high of 23°C and low of 14°C; the coolest is May, with an average low of 14°C and high of 22°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2313
Feb2313
Mar2313
Apr2213
May2214
Jun2214
Jul2214
Aug2314
Sep2313
Oct2213
Nov2213
Dec2213

Average hourly temperature in Ngororero

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 August afternoons, near 23°C, and coldest before dawn in May, near 14°C.

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

Ngororero 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
Jan23° / 13°18221.512.14.8
Feb23° / 13°15319.812.14.8
Mar23° / 13°16223.2124.5
Apr22° / 13°14725.2124.0
May22° / 14°8317.511.95.3
Jun22° / 14°204.511.97.2
Jul22° / 14°71.811.97.8
Aug23° / 14°305.811.97.3
Sep23° / 13°6112.1126.2
Oct22° / 13°12420.5124.9
Nov22° / 13°13822.812.14.4
Dec22° / 13°15621.212.14.8

Chance of rain

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

Ngororero gets about 1261 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 7.5 months, from around Oct 1 to May 16, peaking in April at about 86% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 12.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 182 mm over about 22 wet days; July is the driest, with 7 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 17 · 86%Jul 12 · 4%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan6922
Feb7120
Mar7523
Apr8425
May5618
Jun165
Jul62
Aug206
Sep4112
Oct6521
Nov7523
Dec6921

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Ngororero collects about 1261 mm of rain across 196 wet days — roughly 105 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 182 mm, while July is the driest at just 7 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 40% of the year’s total.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec182153162147832073061124138156
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan18222
Feb15320
Mar16223
Apr14725
May8318
Jun205
Jul72
Aug306
Sep6112
Oct12421
Nov13823
Dec15621

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Ngororero, 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 17 and lasts for 4.5 months, ending around October 1. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 41% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around October 2 and lasts for 7.5 months, ending around May 16. The cloudiest month is November, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 90% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 11 · 45%Nov 13 · 9%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan1981
Feb2080
Mar1882
Apr1189
May2476
Jun3664
Jul4159
Aug3565
Sep2872
Oct1486
Nov1090
Dec1882

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, Ngororero 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)
Jan12.16:086:14
Feb12.16:146:18
Mar12.06:116:12
Apr12.06:036:00
May11.96:005:55
Jun11.96:055:59
Jul11.96:106:04
Aug11.96:076:04
Sep12.05:565:56
Oct12.05:455:48
Nov12.15:445:49
Dec12.15:546:01

Sunny days

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

Ngororero averages about 2 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 6 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.4 months, from around May 21 to Sep 30. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 5 sunny days (gloomy).

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

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedJul 106 daysNov 130 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan2Gloomy
Feb2Gloomy
Mar2Gloomy
Apr1Gloomy
May2Gloomy
Jun4Gloomy
Jul5Gloomy
Aug4Gloomy
Sep3Gloomy
Oct1Gloomy
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.

In Ngororero, the air stays dry or comfortable essentially all year. Even in April, the muggiest month, it feels humid or worse only about 5% 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 (%)Humid (%)
Jan35631
Feb33661
Mar18802
Apr7895
May29692
Jun81190
Jul9730
Aug89110
Sep71290
Oct44560
Nov27730
Dec33661

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

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmSep 17 · 6 km/hApr 3 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb5calm
Mar4calm
Apr4calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Hazard calendar for Ngororero

In seasonPeak

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

Ngororero's rainy season runs October–May, 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 Ngororero

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early September, Ngororero 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 Ngororero for general outdoor tourist activities is from late May to mid September, with a peak score in the second week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 13 · 7.9

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
Jan4.8fair
Feb4.8fair
Mar4.5fair
Apr4.0fair
May5.3fair
Jun7.2good
Jul7.8ideal
Aug7.2good
Sep6.2good
Oct4.9fair
Nov4.4fair
Dec4.8fair

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 Ngororero for hot-weather activities is from early June to late September, with a peak score in the first week of August.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 5 · 5.8

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 Ngororero, 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.

Ngororero packs about the same all year — highs hold near 23°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 August, Ngororero sees daytime highs around 23°C and nights near 14°C. Worth packing: light clothes and sun protection. About 6 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Ngororero 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 Ngororero peaks around March 17 at about 16 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 19 at about 10 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 17UV 16Jun 19UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar16Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun10Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep14Extreme
Oct14Extreme
Nov13Extreme
Dec11Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Ngororero

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)
Jan7.55.5
Feb8.57
Mar8.57
Apr8.56.5
May86
Jun7.55.5
Jul7.55.5
Aug7.55.5
Sep86.5
Oct86.5
Nov86
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Ngororero 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 Ngororero is worst in January — around 99 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyJan 2299 µg/m³May 1181 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan99Unhealthy
Feb98Unhealthy
Mar88Unhealthy
Apr82Unhealthy
May80Unhealthy
Jun95Unhealthy
Jul91Unhealthy
Aug87Unhealthy
Sep83Unhealthy
Oct81Unhealthy
Nov86Unhealthy
Dec93Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Ngororero 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. Ngororero banks about 2,854 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around August.

01,0002,0003,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan243
Feb227
Mar244
Apr228
May234
Jun230
Jul247
Aug262
Sep247
Oct240
Nov220
Dec232

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.

Ngororero receives about 5.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.5 and 5.4 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

0123456JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightMar 65.4 kWhMay 44.5 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.1Bright
Feb5.3Bright
Mar5.3Bright
Apr4.8Bright
May4.7Bright
Jun4.7Bright
Jul4.9Bright
Aug5.0Bright
Sep5.3Bright
Oct5.0Bright
Nov4.9Bright
Dec5.0Bright

Where is Ngororero?

Ngororero sits at 1.9°S, 29.6°E, 1,654 m above sea level, in Rwanda. The nearest listed city is Muhanga, 20 km away.

MuhangaGitaramaMukamiraKoraBusogoMukingoGitesiShyorongi

Topography around Ngororero

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Ngororero has large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 685 m around an average of 1,757 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,309 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,368 m.

The land around Ngororero is covered by grassland (39%) and cropland (29%) within 3 km, grassland (35%), cropland (32%) and trees (20%) within 16 km, and cropland (31%), trees (27%) and grassland (23%) within 80 km.

3 km
685 m
16 km
1,309 m
80 km
3,368 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswater
Nearby: Muhanga 20 km · Gitarama 28 km · Mukamira 31 km · Kora 35 km · Busogo 35 km · Mukingo 37 km · Gitesi 37 km · Shyorongi 37 km

Rwanda travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 3
Reconsider Travel
Power plugs
Type C / E / G
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 27% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$1,124
2025
Happiness
3.3 / 10
World Happiness, 2021
Homicide rate
3.6
per 100k, 2020
Road deaths
29.4
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Low
World Bank
English
Very low
EF EPI 417
Religion
Catholic 40%Pentecostal 21%Protestant 15%Adventist 12%

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 Ngororero (-1.8628°, 29.6254°, elevation 1,654 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).