Climate and average weather in Pajok

In Pajok, the summers are sweltering, fairly dry, and partly cloudy and the winters are hot and partly cloudy.

Best: mid May to late September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Pajok typically varies from 19°C to 34°C, and is rarely below 18°C or above 37°C. February is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

Based on the travel score, the best times of year to visit Pajok for warm-weather activities are from mid May to late September and early November to late January.

Hottest
Feb
34°
Coldest
Jul
19°
Wettest
Oct
281 mm
Driest
Jan
20 mm
Rain / yr
1803 mm
215 wet days
Daylight
11.8–12.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
823 m
3.9°N
Clearest
Jan
56% cloud

Pajok is human settlement in South Sudan.

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

Pajok 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 May to late September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Pajok stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 34°C and low of 22°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 19°C and high of 28°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 12°C) in January.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3321
Feb3422
Mar3322
Apr3121
May2920
Jun2920
Jul2819
Aug2819
Sep2919
Oct2920
Nov3019
Dec3120

How hot and cold Pajok 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, Pajok feels like about 34°C (around February 14). About 109 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in February.

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan33332121
Feb34342222
Mar33332222
Apr32312121
May31292020
Jun30292020
Jul29281919
Aug29281919
Sep30291919
Oct30292020
Nov31301919
Dec31312020

Average hourly temperature in Pajok

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 February afternoons, near 34°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 19°C.

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

Pajok 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° / 21°203.711.84.0
Feb34° / 22°234.911.93.3
Mar33° / 22°10013.3123.1
Apr31° / 21°21922.612.13.2
May29° / 20°21423.812.23.7
Jun29° / 20°15321.312.24.2
Jul28° / 19°14922.612.24.3
Aug28° / 19°20426.212.13.9
Sep29° / 19°21723.6123.8
Oct29° / 20°28125.411.93.6
Nov30° / 19°17319.311.84.0
Dec31° / 20°517.811.84.5

Chance of rain

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

Pajok gets about 1803 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 7.8 months, from around Mar 29 to Nov 19, peaking in August at about 86% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 8.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 281 mm over about 25 wet days; January is the driest, with 20 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 17 · 86%Jan 8 · 10%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan124
Feb185
Mar4413
Apr7423
May7624
Jun7121
Jul7423
Aug8426
Sep7924
Oct8125
Nov6419
Dec268

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Pajok collects about 1803 mm of rain across 215 wet days — roughly 150 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 281 mm, while January is the driest at just 20 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 40% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec202310021921415314920421728117351
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan204
Feb235
Mar10013
Apr21923
May21424
Jun15321
Jul14923
Aug20426
Sep21724
Oct28125
Nov17319
Dec518

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Pajok, 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 November 24 and lasts for 3.5 months, ending around March 10. The clearest month is January, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 59% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 11 and lasts for 2.4 months, ending around May 22. The cloudiest month is April, 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 24 · 63%Apr 30 · 21%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5941
Feb5446
Mar3961
Apr2674
May3466
Jun4258
Jul4456
Aug4654
Sep4852
Oct3070
Nov3763
Dec5842

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, Pajok 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)
Jan11.87:056:53
Feb11.97:087:01
Mar12.07:016:59
Apr12.16:486:53
May12.26:416:52
Jun12.26:446:57
Jul12.26:507:02
Aug12.16:506:58
Sep12.06:446:45
Oct11.96:386:33
Nov11.86:416:30
Dec11.86:536:40

Sunny days

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

Pajok 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 3.5 months, from around Nov 20 to Mar 7. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 9 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is April, down near 3 sunny days — about 67% fewer than the December peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedDec 2210 daysApr 262 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan9Mixed
Feb7Gloomy
Mar5Gloomy
Apr3Gloomy
May4Gloomy
Jun5Gloomy
Jul5Gloomy
Aug5Gloomy
Sep7Gloomy
Oct3Gloomy
Nov5Gloomy
Dec9Mixed

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 8.0 months, from around March 30 to November 26. The muggiest month is May, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 27 to March 29, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 80% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 10 · 81%May 1 · 0%muggycomfortablehumiddrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan6020155
Feb5817187
Mar24172534
Apr251478
May00693
Jun001882
Jul012772
Aug001188
Sep011188
Oct011088
Nov292465
Dec29262520

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

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmFeb 11 · 7 km/hOct 28 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr6calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul4calm
Aug4calm
Sep4calm
Oct4calm
Nov4calm
Dec5calm

Best time to visit Pajok

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 16 · 4.6

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
Jan4.0fair
Feb3.3poor
Mar3.1poor
Apr3.2poor
May3.7fair
Jun4.2fair
Jul4.3fair
Aug3.9fair
Sep3.8fair
Oct3.6fair
Nov4.0fair
Dec4.5fair

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 Pajok for hot-weather activities is from late November to mid March, with a peak score in the first week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 1 · 7.3

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 Pajok, 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 February (highs near 34°C), the essentials are light clothes and sun protection. In the cold season around July (highs near 28°C), pack light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Pajok sees daytime highs around 34°C and nights near 22°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 5 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Pajok 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 Pajok peaks around March 17 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 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 15Dec 19UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan10Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun11Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug13Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec10Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Pajok

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)
Jan7.55.5
Feb86.5
Mar8.56.5
Apr86.5
May86
Jun7.55.5
Jul7.55.5
Aug86
Sep86.5
Oct86
Nov7.55.5
Dec7.55

Air quality in Pajok 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 Pajok is worst in January — around 137 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 12.7× the cleanest month (April, 11 µg/m³).

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

0306090120150JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyModerateGoodModerateUnhealthyJan 13133 µg/m³Apr 2211 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan137Unhealthy
Feb65Unhealthy
Mar22Moderate
Apr11Good
May12Good
Jun20Moderate
Jul20Moderate
Aug15Moderate
Sep13Moderate
Oct13Moderate
Nov26Moderate
Dec113Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Pajok 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. Pajok banks about 5,536 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around February.

02,0004,0006,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan521
Feb499
Mar540
Apr475
May457
Jun424
Jul423
Aug421
Sep421
Oct439
Nov434
Dec481

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.

Pajok receives about 5.6 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 5.1 and 6.1 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 166.1 kWhJun 215.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.8Bright
Feb6.0Intense
Mar5.9Bright
Apr5.7Bright
May5.5Bright
Jun5.1Bright
Jul5.1Bright
Aug5.4Bright
Sep5.9Bright
Oct5.5Bright
Nov5.5Bright
Dec5.5Bright

Where is Pajok?

Pajok sits at 3.9°N, 32.5°E, 823 m above sea level, in South Sudan. The nearest listed city is Torit, 62 km away.

KitgumMoyoAdjumaniYumbeJuba

Topography around Pajok

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Pajok has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 83 m around an average of 834 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 594 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,635 m.

The land around Pajok is covered by grassland (54%) and shrubs (41%) within 3 km, shrubs (50%) and grassland (30%) within 16 km, and grassland (53%), shrubs (22%) and trees (21%) within 80 km.

3 km
83 m
16 km
594 m
80 km
2,635 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcropland
Nearby: Torit 62 km · Kitgum 79 km · Moyo 87 km · Adjumani 94 km · Gulu 123 km · Opit 139 km · Yumbe 144 km · Juba 148 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 Pajok (3.8651°, 32.4821°, elevation 823 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).