Climate and average weather in Kafia Kingi

In Kafia Kingi, the summers are sweltering, fairly dry, and partly cloudy and the winters are hot and mostly cloudy.

Best: mid October to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Kafia Kingi typically varies from 18°C to 38°C, and is rarely below 14°C or above 40°C. April is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Apr
38°
Coldest
Aug
21°
Wettest
Aug
182 mm
Driest
Jan
0 mm
Rain / yr
860 mm
132 wet days
Daylight
11.5–12.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
604 m
9.3°N
Clearest
Dec
29% cloud

Kafia Kingi is human settlement.

Density
1/km²
people per km²

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

Kafia Kingi 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 mid October to late December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 2.6 months, from February 21 to May 9, with daily high temperatures above 36°C. The hottest month of the year in Kafia Kingi is April, with an average high of 38°C and low of 25°C.

The cool season lasts 3.6 months, from June 26 to October 14, with daily high temperatures below 31°C. The coldest month of the year in Kafia Kingi is August, with an average low of 21°C and high of 29°C.

Days typically run about 12°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 16°C) in February.

10°20°30°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3318
Feb3520
Mar3723
Apr3825
May3524
Jun3223
Jul3022
Aug2921
Sep3021
Oct3121
Nov3320
Dec3318

How hot and cold Kafia Kingi 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, Kafia Kingi feels like about 38°C (around April 1). About 308 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in April.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan33331818
Feb35352020
Mar37372323
Apr38382425
May37352424
Jun34322323
Jul32302222
Aug31292121
Sep33302121
Oct33312121
Nov33332020
Dec33331818

Average hourly temperature in Kafia Kingi

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 April afternoons, near 38°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 21°C.

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

Kafia Kingi 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
Jan33° / 18°0011.54.5
Feb35° / 20°10.311.73.0
Mar37° / 23°71.711.91.6
Apr38° / 25°28612.21.3
May35° / 24°9415.312.42.2
Jun32° / 23°13520.112.53.2
Jul30° / 22°16323.912.53.6
Aug29° / 21°18224.912.33.6
Sep30° / 21°15823.112.13.5
Oct31° / 21°8716.211.83.9
Nov33° / 20°40.911.64.2
Dec33° / 18°0011.54.7

Chance of rain

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

Kafia Kingi gets about 860 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 5.7 months, from around May 3 to Oct 24, peaking in August at about 82% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 1.

August is the wettest month by volume, with 182 mm over about 25 wet days; January is the driest, with 0 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 10 · 82%Jan 1 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan00
Feb10
Mar62
Apr206
May4915
Jun6720
Jul7724
Aug8125
Sep7723
Oct5016
Nov51
Dec00

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Kafia Kingi collects about 860 mm of rain across 132 wet days — roughly 72 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 182 mm, while January is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 59% of the year’s total.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec172894135163182158874
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan00
Feb10
Mar72
Apr286
May9415
Jun13520
Jul16324
Aug18225
Sep15823
Oct8716
Nov41
Dec00

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Kafia Kingi, 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 October 26 and lasts for 5.7 months, ending around April 16. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 81% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 17 and lasts for 6.3 months, ending around October 25. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 74% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecDec 18 · 83%Aug 14 · 24%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7129
Feb7030
Mar6436
Apr5545
May5050
Jun4753
Jul3763
Aug2674
Sep3763
Oct4852
Nov7525
Dec8119

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. The longest day, around May 21, brings about 12 h 30 min of light; the shortest, around January 1, only 11 h 30 min — a swing of roughly 1 hour.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.57:467:17
Feb11.77:467:28
Mar11.97:347:30
Apr12.27:167:29
May12.47:067:31
Jun12.57:067:39
Jul12.57:137:43
Aug12.37:177:36
Sep12.17:157:18
Oct11.87:147:01
Nov11.67:216:55
Dec11.57:357:02

Sunny days

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

Kafia Kingi averages about 11 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 21 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.6 months, from around Oct 26 to Apr 13. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 21 sunny days (bright).

The greyest month is August, down near 3 sunny days — about 86% fewer than the December peak.

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 2121 daysAug 82 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan18Bright
Feb15Bright
Mar14Mixed
Apr11Mixed
May8Mixed
Jun7Gloomy
Jul4Gloomy
Aug3Gloomy
Sep4Gloomy
Oct9Mixed
Nov18Bright
Dec21Bright

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 Kafia Kingi, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 6.4 months, from around April 22 to November 2. The muggiest month is June, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 3 to April 21, and January 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 8 · 100%Jun 18 · 0%oppressivecomfortablehumiddrymuggycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan1000000
Feb981100
Mar846540
Apr431319204
May55175122
Jun0025246
Jul0005842
Aug0004456
Sep0002476
Oct5593051
Nov67121093
Dec991000

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 Kafia Kingi is typically calm, near 9 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 6.0 months, from around Nov 17 to May 19. The windiest month is February, averaging about 11 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around May 20 to Nov 16, with September the calmest month at about 6 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeFeb 11 · 12 km/hSep 17 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan11calm
Feb11calm
Mar11calm
Apr10calm
May9calm
Jun8calm
Jul8calm
Aug7calm
Sep6calm
Oct7calm
Nov9calm
Dec11calm

Hazard calendar for Kafia Kingi

In seasonPeak

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

Kafia Kingi's monsoon runs May–October, when most of the year's rain falls.

Kafia Kingi sees seasonal dust haze (March–April), heaviest in March.

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

Best time to visit Kafia Kingi

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late October, Kafia Kingi 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 time of year to visit Kafia Kingi for general outdoor tourist activities is from mid October to late January, with a peak score in the first week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 1 · 4.9

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
Jan4.5fair
Feb3.0poor
Mar1.6poor
Apr1.3poor
May2.2poor
Jun3.2poor
Jul3.6fair
Aug3.6fair
Sep3.6fair
Oct3.9fair
Nov4.2fair
Dec4.7fair

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 Kafia Kingi for hot-weather activities is from late October to mid February, with a peak score in the last week of December.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 24 · 8.2

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 Kafia Kingi, 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.

For a warm-season trip around April (highs near 38°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around August (highs near 29°C), pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In April, Kafia Kingi sees daytime highs around 38°C and nights near 25°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 6 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Kafia Kingi 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 Kafia Kingi peaks around March 16 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 12 at about 9 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeVery highMar 16UV 13Dec 12UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb12Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr12Extreme
May10Extreme
Jun12Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec9Very high

Average hourly UV index in Kafia Kingi

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 hours a day reach index 3 (protection recommended), and 6 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
Feb7.55.5
Mar86
Apr86
May85.5
Jun86
Jul86
Aug86.5
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec74.5

Air quality in Kafia Kingi 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 Kafia Kingi is worst in November — around 59 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 5.3× the cleanest month (August, 11 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModerateModerateGoodModeratePoorPoorNov 1856 µg/m³Aug 1911 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan22Moderate
Feb29Moderate
Mar37Poor
Apr26Moderate
May17Moderate
Jun16Moderate
Jul14Moderate
Aug11Good
Sep13Moderate
Oct25Moderate
Nov59Unhealthy
Dec37Poor
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Kafia Kingi 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. Kafia Kingi banks about 6,226 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around April.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan476
Feb489
Mar618
Apr631
May610
Jun515
Jul482
Aug465
Sep462
Oct498
Nov498
Dec482

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.

Kafia Kingi receives about 6.0 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — intense — with a clear seasonal swing between 5.2 and 6.9 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.3 months, from around Nov 1 to May 10. The brightest month is March, averaging about 6.9 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is August, down near 5.3 kWh/m² — roughly 24% less than the March peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 256.9 kWhAug 55.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.3Intense
Feb6.7Intense
Mar7.0Intense
Apr6.6Intense
May5.9Bright
Jun5.6Bright
Jul5.3Bright
Aug5.2Bright
Sep5.7Bright
Oct5.8Bright
Nov6.3Intense
Dec6.1Intense

Where is Kafia Kingi?

Kafia Kingi sits at 9.3°N, 24.4°E, 604 m above sea level, in South Sudan. The nearest listed city is Burām, 194 km away.

BurāmTullusRahad al BardiGereidaEl DaeinNyalaAweilWinejok

Topography around Kafia Kingi

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Kafia Kingi has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 39 m around an average of 596 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 140 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 737 m.

The land around Kafia Kingi is covered by grassland (60%) and shrubs (35%) within 3 km, shrubs (53%) and grassland (31%) within 16 km, and shrubs (50%), grassland (26%) and trees (24%) within 80 km.

3 km
39 m
16 km
140 m
80 km
737 m
treesshrubsgrassland
Nearby: Burām 194 km · Tullus 202 km · Rahad al Bardi 233 km · Gereida 236 km · El Daein 307 km · Nyala 313 km · Aweil 332 km · Winejok 347 km

South Sudan travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 4
Do Not Travel
Prices
≈ 6% of US
price level, 2021
GDP per capita
$1,080
2015
Happiness
2.8 / 10
World Happiness, 2019
Homicide rate
14
per 100k, 2012
Road deaths
36.7
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Low
World Bank
Religion
Christian 61%folk religion 33%Muslim 6%

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 Kafia Kingi (9.2735°, 24.417°, elevation 604 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).