Climate and average weather in Kabanga

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

Best: mid May to early September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Kabanga typically varies from 16°C to 28°C, and is rarely below 14°C or above 30°C. September is the hottest month of the year, while April is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Sep
28°
Coldest
Apr
16°
Wettest
Nov
156 mm
Driest
Jul
3 mm
Rain / yr
985 mm
162 wet days
Daylight
11.8–12.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,608 m
2.6°S
Clearest
Jul
62% cloud

Kabanga 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 early September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Kabanga stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is September, with an average high of 28°C and low of 17°C; the coolest is April, with an average low of 16°C and high of 26°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2616
Feb2716
Mar2616
Apr2616
May2616
Jun2616
Jul2716
Aug2817
Sep2817
Oct2717
Nov2616
Dec2616

Average hourly temperature in Kabanga

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 September afternoons, near 28°C, and coldest before dawn in April, near 16°C.

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

Kabanga 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
Jan26° / 16°10318.512.15.2
Feb27° / 16°8916.312.15.2
Mar26° / 16°12921.5124.8
Apr26° / 16°15322.111.94.6
May26° / 16°6210.511.96.4
Jun26° / 16°71.511.97.6
Jul27° / 16°30.511.97.7
Aug28° / 17°152.711.96.9
Sep28° / 17°367.4126.1
Oct27° / 17°10015.712.15.4
Nov26° / 16°1562312.14.4
Dec26° / 16°13422.112.14.7

Chance of rain

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

Kabanga gets about 985 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 7.0 months, from around Oct 11 to May 10, peaking in November at about 78% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 10.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 156 mm over about 23 wet days; July is the driest, with 3 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetNov 28 · 78%Jul 10 · 1%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan6019
Feb5816
Mar6822
Apr7422
May3411
Jun52
Jul21
Aug93
Sep257
Oct5116
Nov7623
Dec7122

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Kabanga collects about 985 mm of rain across 162 wet days — roughly 82 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 156 mm, while July is the driest at just 3 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 45% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150175200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec1038912915362731536100156134
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan10319
Feb8916
Mar12922
Apr15322
May6211
Jun72
Jul31
Aug153
Sep367
Oct10016
Nov15623
Dec13422

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Kabanga, 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 13 and lasts for 4.9 months, ending around October 9. 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 10 and lasts for 3.7 months, ending around January 29. The cloudiest month is November, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 88% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJun 1 · 44%Nov 14 · 10%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2377
Feb2773
Mar2377
Apr1486
May3268
Jun3763
Jul4159
Aug3961
Sep3862
Oct2476
Nov1288
Dec1981

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, Kabanga 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)
Jan12.17:037:12
Feb12.17:107:15
Mar12.07:077:08
Apr11.97:006:57
May11.96:586:51
Jun11.97:036:54
Jul11.97:087:00
Aug11.97:057:00
Sep12.06:536:52
Oct12.16:416:45
Nov12.16:406:47
Dec12.16:506:59

Sunny days

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

Kabanga averages about 3 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 6 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.9 months, from around May 14 to Oct 8. The sunniest month is July, with roughly 6 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is April, down near 1 sunny days — about 77% fewer than the July peak.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergreyergloomymixedJul 106 daysApr 191 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan2Gloomy
Feb3Gloomy
Mar3Gloomy
Apr1Gloomy
May4Gloomy
Jun4Gloomy
Jul6Gloomy
Aug6Gloomy
Sep5Gloomy
Oct2Gloomy
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 Kabanga, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 6.8 months, from around October 21 to May 15. The muggiest month is March, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 85% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around May 16 to October 20, and July 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 13 · 100%Mar 31 · 9%humiddrycomfortablehumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan123751
Feb224731
Mar114841
Apr012862
May1041480
Jun652960
Jul93610
Aug771850
Sep4342150
Oct1244450
Nov018810
Dec019810

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 Kabanga is typically calm, near 6 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.4 months, from around May 6 to Oct 17. The windiest month is July, averaging about 8 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Oct 18 to May 5, with December the calmest month at about 5 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeJul 12 · 8 km/hDec 9 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr6calm
May7calm
Jun8calm
Jul8calm
Aug8calm
Sep7calm
Oct6calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Best time to visit Kabanga

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 7 · 7.8

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
Jan5.2fair
Feb5.2fair
Mar4.8fair
Apr4.6fair
May6.4good
Jun7.6ideal
Jul7.6ideal
Aug6.9good
Sep6.1good
Oct5.4fair
Nov4.5fair
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 Kabanga for hot-weather activities is from late May to early October, with a peak score in the second week of July.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 14 · 8.0

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 Kabanga, 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.

Kabanga packs about the same all year — highs hold near 28°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 September, Kabanga sees daytime highs around 28°C and nights near 17°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: sun protection. About 7 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Kabanga 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 Kabanga peaks around March 15 at about 16 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 18 at about 10 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 15UV 16Jun 18UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar16Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun10Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep14Extreme
Oct14Extreme
Nov13Extreme
Dec12Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Kabanga

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
Feb8.56.5
Mar8.56.5
Apr8.56.5
May7.56
Jun7.55.5
Jul7.55.5
Aug7.55.5
Sep86
Oct86.5
Nov86
Dec86

Air quality in Kabanga 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 Kabanga is worst in July — around 47 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 2.0× the cleanest month (April, 24 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecModeratePoorModerateJul 1246 µg/m³Apr 1624 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan34Moderate
Feb32Moderate
Mar27Moderate
Apr24Moderate
May27Moderate
Jun45Poor
Jul47Poor
Aug40Poor
Sep33Moderate
Oct27Moderate
Nov27Moderate
Dec29Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Kabanga 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. Kabanga banks about 4,167 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around September.

01,0002,0003,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan343
Feb320
Mar349
Apr327
May342
Jun336
Jul362
Aug387
Sep378
Oct367
Nov325
Dec331

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.

Kabanga receives about 5.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 5.0 and 6.0 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 256.0 kWhApr 305.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.7Bright
Feb6.0Bright
Mar5.8Bright
Apr5.1Bright
May5.2Bright
Jun5.2Bright
Jul5.5Bright
Aug5.6Bright
Sep5.9Bright
Oct5.6Bright
Nov5.2Bright
Dec5.4Bright

Where is Kabanga?

Kabanga sits at 2.6°S, 30.5°E, 1,608 m above sea level, in Tanzania. The nearest listed city is Rulenge, 20 km away.

Cendajuru

Topography around Kabanga

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Kabanga has significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 261 m around an average of 1,501 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 443 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 864 m.

The land around Kabanga is covered by trees (41%) and grassland (25%) within 3 km, trees (32%), shrubs (23%) and grassland (23%) within 16 km, and cropland (32%) and grassland (27%) within 80 km.

3 km
261 m
16 km
443 m
80 km
864 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Rulenge 20 km · Ngara 25 km · Bugarama 27 km · Kirundo 42 km · Kibungo 54 km · Nyamata 60 km · Karusi 62 km · Cendajuru 74 km

Tanzania travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 3
Reconsider Travel
Power plugs
Type D / G
230 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 29% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$1,319
2025
Happiness
3.9 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
31%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
3.7
per 100k, 2020
Road deaths
31.1
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Lower middle
World Bank
English
Low
EF EPI 479
Religion
Christian 63%Muslim 34%folk religion 1%

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 Kabanga (-2.6386°, 30.4678°, elevation 1,608 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).