Climate and average weather in Kuacjok

In Kuacjok, the summers are sweltering, dry, and partly cloudy and the winters are hot and mostly cloudy.

Best: mid June to late January

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Kuacjok typically varies from 22°C to 39°C, and is rarely below 19°C or above 41°C. March is the hottest month of the year, while August is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best time of year to visit Kuacjok for warm-weather activities is from mid June to late January.

Hottest
Mar
39°
Coldest
Aug
22°
Wettest
Aug
194 mm
Driest
Jan
0 mm
Rain / yr
907 mm
142 wet days
Daylight
11.5–12.5 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
428 m
8.3°N
Clearest
Dec
34% cloud

Kuacjok is city in South Sudan.

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

Kuacjok 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 June to late January.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

The hot season lasts 3.0 months, from February 1 to May 1, with daily high temperatures above 36°C. The hottest month of the year in Kuacjok is March, with an average high of 39°C and low of 26°C.

The cool season lasts 3.4 months, from June 27 to October 6, with daily high temperatures below 32°C. The coldest month of the year in Kuacjok is August, with an average low of 22°C and high of 30°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in February.

15°20°25°30°35°40°45°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3522
Feb3724
Mar3926
Apr3827
May3526
Jun3324
Jul3123
Aug3022
Sep3123
Oct3223
Nov3523
Dec3523

How hot and cold Kuacjok 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, Kuacjok feels like about 39°C (around April 28). Nearly every day a year carries some heat stress, and 29 of them tip into dangerous heat (feels-like above 39°C), peaking in April.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdangerous heat
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan35352222
Feb37372424
Mar38392626
Apr39382727
May39352626
Jun36332424
Jul34312323
Aug34302222
Sep35312323
Oct36322323
Nov35352323
Dec35352323

Average hourly temperature in Kuacjok

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 39°C, and coldest before dawn in August, near 22°C.

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

Kuacjok 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
Jan35° / 22°00.111.62.9
Feb37° / 24°10.411.71.7
Mar39° / 26°162.711.90.9
Apr38° / 27°4210.112.21.1
May35° / 26°9817.812.42.0
Jun33° / 24°12219.912.52.8
Jul31° / 23°1712312.43.2
Aug30° / 22°19425.212.33.2
Sep31° / 23°14822.2123.2
Oct32° / 23°10318.111.83.2
Nov35° / 23°122.611.63.3
Dec35° / 23°0011.53.1

Chance of rain

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

Kuacjok gets about 907 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 6.3 months, from around Apr 20 to Oct 28, 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 194 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 17 · 82%Jan 1 · 0%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan00
Feb10
Mar93
Apr3410
May5718
Jun6720
Jul7423
Aug8125
Sep7422
Oct5618
Nov113
Dec00

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Kuacjok collects about 907 mm of rain across 142 wet days — roughly 76 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. August is the wettest month with 194 mm, while January is the driest at just 0 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 57% of the year’s total.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec01164298122171194148103120
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan00
Feb10
Mar163
Apr4210
May9818
Jun12220
Jul17123
Aug19425
Sep14822
Oct10318
Nov123
Dec00

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Kuacjok, 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 27 and lasts for 5.3 months, ending around April 5. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 77% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around April 6 and lasts for 6.7 months, ending around October 26. The cloudiest month is August, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 69% 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 19 · 79%Aug 1 · 29%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan7030
Feb6832
Mar6040
Apr4852
May4357
Jun4555
Jul3664
Aug3169
Sep4258
Oct4852
Nov6931
Dec7723

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 June 2, 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)
Jan11.67:307:04
Feb11.77:317:15
Mar11.97:197:16
Apr12.27:037:14
May12.46:537:16
Jun12.56:547:23
Jul12.47:007:27
Aug12.37:047:20
Sep12.07:017:04
Oct11.86:596:48
Nov11.67:056:42
Dec11.57:196:50

Sunny days

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

Kuacjok averages about 10 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 19 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 5.3 months, from around Oct 29 to Apr 6. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 19 sunny days (bright).

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

0510152025JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightbrilliantDec 1919 daysAug 62 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan17Bright
Feb14Bright
Mar13Mixed
Apr8Mixed
May7Gloomy
Jun6Gloomy
Jul4Gloomy
Aug3Gloomy
Sep4Gloomy
Oct8Gloomy
Nov15Bright
Dec19Bright

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 7.2 months, from around April 9 to November 13. The muggiest month is May, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 99% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 14 to April 8, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 99% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 1 · 100%May 19 · 0%oppressivehumiddrycomfortablemuggycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan972100
Feb934210
Mar64131293
Apr1610203914
May0144450
Jun0012772
Jul0001684
Aug000595
Sep000298
Oct1131679
Nov3213202014
Dec907210

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 Kuacjok is typically calm, near 8 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.9 months, from around Nov 21 to May 19. The windiest month is January, averaging about 11 km/h (calm).

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

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeJan 9 · 11 km/hSep 15 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan11calm
Feb11calm
Mar10calm
Apr9calm
May8calm
Jun7calm
Jul7calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov8calm
Dec10calm

Hazard calendar for Kuacjok

In seasonPeak

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

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

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

Best time to visit Kuacjok

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late June, Kuacjok 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 Kuacjok for general outdoor tourist activities is from late June to late January, with a peak score in the first week of November.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationNov 4 · 3.6

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
Jan2.9poor
Feb1.7poor
Mar0.9poor
Apr1.1poor
May2.0poor
Jun2.8poor
Jul3.2poor
Aug3.2poor
Sep3.2poor
Oct3.2poor
Nov3.3poor
Dec3.1poor

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 Kuacjok for hot-weather activities is from late October to early February, with a peak score in the first week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 6 · 6.9

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 Kuacjok, 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 March (highs near 39°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around August (highs near 30°C), pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In March, Kuacjok sees daytime highs around 39°C and nights near 26°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Kuacjok 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 Kuacjok peaks around March 21 at about 13 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 11 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 21UV 13Dec 11UV 9
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb11Extreme
Mar13Extreme
Apr13Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul12Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep12Extreme
Oct12Extreme
Nov9Very high
Dec9Very high

Average hourly UV index in Kuacjok

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
Jun85.5
Jul86
Aug86.5
Sep86
Oct7.55.5
Nov74.5
Dec74.5

Air quality in Kuacjok 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 Kuacjok is worst in March — around 43 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 3.8× the cleanest month (August, 11 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateGoodModerateModerateMar 1542 µg/m³Aug 2011 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan23Moderate
Feb32Moderate
Mar43Poor
Apr26Moderate
May12Moderate
Jun15Moderate
Jul14Moderate
Aug11Good
Sep12Moderate
Oct18Moderate
Nov42Poor
Dec28Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Kuacjok 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. Kuacjok banks about 6,897 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)
Jan583
Feb573
Mar684
Apr664
May630
Jun547
Jul519
Aug504
Sep502
Oct542
Nov562
Dec587

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.

Kuacjok receives about 5.9 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 5.1 and 6.6 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 5.7 months, from around Nov 16 to May 9. The brightest month is March, averaging about 6.6 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is July, down near 5.2 kWh/m² — roughly 21% less than the March peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseMar 16.6 kWhJul 305.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.2Intense
Feb6.6Intense
Mar6.7Intense
Apr6.3Intense
May5.8Bright
Jun5.5Bright
Jul5.2Bright
Aug5.3Bright
Sep5.8Bright
Oct5.8Bright
Nov5.9Bright
Dec6.0Bright

Where is Kuacjok?

Kuacjok sits at 8.3°N, 28.0°E, 428 m above sea level, in South Sudan. The nearest listed city is Gogrial, 29 km away.

AweilWinejokTonjAbyeiLeerRumbek

Topography around Kuacjok

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Kuacjok has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 18 m around an average of 422 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 54 m; within 80 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 161 m.

The land around Kuacjok is covered by wetland (45%) and grassland (41%) within 3 km, grassland (62%) and shrubs (24%) within 16 km, and grassland (53%) and shrubs (32%) within 80 km.

3 km
18 m
16 km
54 m
80 km
161 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Gogrial 29 km · Wau 67 km · Aweil 82 km · Winejok 91 km · Tonj 138 km · Abyei 152 km · Leer 238 km · Rumbek 250 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 Kuacjok (8.3028°, 27.98°, elevation 428 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).