Climate and average weather in Kibaigwa

In Kibaigwa, 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: early May to mid November

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Kibaigwa typically varies from 13°C to 28°C, and is rarely below 11°C or above 30°C. November is the hottest month of the year, while July is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Nov
28°
Coldest
Jul
13°
Wettest
Jan
102 mm
Driest
Jul
1 mm
Rain / yr
501 mm
93 wet days
Daylight
11.6–12.4 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,186 m
6.1°S
Clearest
Sep
42% cloud

Kibaigwa 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 early May to mid November.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Kibaigwa stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is November, with an average high of 28°C and low of 17°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 13°C and high of 23°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in October.

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2718
Feb2718
Mar2718
Apr2518
May2516
Jun2414
Jul2313
Aug2414
Sep2514
Oct2716
Nov2817
Dec2818

Average hourly temperature in Kibaigwa

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 November afternoons, near 28°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 13°C.

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

Kibaigwa 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
Jan27° / 18°10215.512.35.6
Feb27° / 18°8212.612.25.7
Mar27° / 18°9917.8125.3
Apr25° / 18°6616.311.95.7
May25° / 16°205.311.77.6
Jun24° / 14°31.111.78.4
Jul23° / 13°10.411.78.4
Aug24° / 14°20.511.88.5
Sep25° / 14°20.8128.5
Oct27° / 16°112.912.17.8
Nov28° / 17°38712.36.9
Dec28° / 18°7512.712.36.0

Chance of rain

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

Kibaigwa gets about 501 mm of precipitation a year. On a typical day the chance of rain is some rain, but that rises and falls sharply with the seasons.

The wetter season lasts 5.6 months, from around Nov 20 to May 8, peaking in April at about 63% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 14.

January is the wettest month by volume, with 102 mm over about 16 wet days; July is the driest, with 1 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwetterdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 2 · 63%Jul 14 · 1%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan4916
Feb4713
Mar5718
Apr5216
May185
Jun41
Jul10
Aug21
Sep31
Oct103
Nov237
Dec4113

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Kibaigwa collects about 501 mm of rain across 93 wet days — roughly 42 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. January is the wettest month with 102 mm, while July is the driest at just 1 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 56% of the year’s total.

0255075100125JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec102829966203122113875
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan10216
Feb8213
Mar9918
Apr6616
May205
Jun31
Jul10
Aug21
Sep21
Oct113
Nov387
Dec7513

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Kibaigwa, 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 August 14 and lasts for 4.0 months, ending around December 12. The clearest month is September, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 75% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around December 13 and lasts for 5.1 months, ending around May 16. The cloudiest month is February, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 61% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecSep 23 · 79%Feb 12 · 37%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan4060
Feb3961
Mar4357
Apr4357
May5545
Jun5743
Jul5545
Aug5743
Sep7525
Oct7228
Nov6436
Dec5248

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 December 15, brings about 12 h 24 min of light; the shortest, around June 16, only 11 h 36 min — a swing of roughly 0 h 48 min.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan12.36:336:52
Feb12.26:426:54
Mar12.06:426:44
Apr11.96:386:30
May11.76:386:21
Jun11.76:446:23
Jul11.76:496:29
Aug11.86:446:31
Sep12.06:296:27
Oct12.16:146:23
Nov12.36:106:27
Dec12.36:196:40

Sunny days

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

Kibaigwa averages about 8 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 3 and 15 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 4.1 months, from around Aug 13 to Dec 14. The sunniest month is September, with roughly 14 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is April, down near 4 sunny days — about 73% fewer than the September peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecgreyersunniergloomymixedbrightSep 2215 daysApr 243 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan6Gloomy
Feb6Gloomy
Mar6Gloomy
Apr4Gloomy
May6Gloomy
Jun8Gloomy
Jul9Mixed
Aug9Mixed
Sep14Mixed
Oct13Mixed
Nov11Mixed
Dec8Mixed

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 5.9 months, from around November 16 to May 15. The muggiest month is April, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 90% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around May 16 to November 15, and June is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 96% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJun 27 · 100%Apr 4 · 4%muggyhumidcomfortabledryhumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan1186814
Feb1186516
Mar097219
Apr097912
May947441
Jun504740
Jul792100
Aug742600
Sep623610
Oct3255130
Nov947421
Dec223705

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 Kibaigwa is typically light breeze, near 12 km/h, and varies moderately with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 7.4 months, from around Apr 19 to Nov 28. The windiest month is October, averaging about 15 km/h (light breeze).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Nov 29 to Apr 18, with January the calmest month at about 8 km/h.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmerwindiercalmercalmlight breezeOct 1 · 15 km/hJan 23 · 8 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan8calm
Feb9calm
Mar10calm
Apr12calm
May13light breeze
Jun13light breeze
Jul14light breeze
Aug14light breeze
Sep15light breeze
Oct15light breeze
Nov13light breeze
Dec10calm

Hazard calendar for Kibaigwa

In seasonPeak

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

Kibaigwa's rainy season runs December–April, 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 Kibaigwa

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid May, Kibaigwa 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 Kibaigwa for general outdoor tourist activities is from early May to mid November, with a peak score in the last week of August.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationAug 22 · 8.6

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
Jan5.6good
Feb5.6good
Mar5.4fair
Apr5.8good
May7.6ideal
Jun8.4ideal
Jul8.4ideal
Aug8.5ideal
Sep8.5ideal
Oct7.8ideal
Nov6.9good
Dec6.0good

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 Kibaigwa for hot-weather activities is from mid May to mid December, with a peak score in the last week of September.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationSep 24 · 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 Kibaigwa, 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.

Kibaigwa packs about the same all year — highs hold near 28°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In November, Kibaigwa sees daytime highs around 28°C and nights near 17°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 7 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Kibaigwa 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 Kibaigwa peaks around March 11 at about 16 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 17 at about 10 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 11UV 16Jun 17UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan15Extreme
Feb16Extreme
Mar16Extreme
Apr15Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun10Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug11Extreme
Sep14Extreme
Oct14Extreme
Nov13Extreme
Dec13Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Kibaigwa

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)
Jan8.56.5
Feb8.57
Mar8.57
Apr86.5
May7.55.5
Jun7.55
Jul7.55.5
Aug7.55.5
Sep86.5
Oct86.5
Nov86.5
Dec8.56.5
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Kibaigwa 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. Kibaigwa banks about 3,994 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around December.

01,0002,0003,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan390
Feb353
Mar384
Apr343
May319
Jun268
Jul253
Aug270
Sep295
Oct349
Nov373
Dec396

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.

Kibaigwa receives about 5.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy on average — bright — with a clear seasonal swing between 4.9 and 6.8 kWh/m².

The brighter stretch of the year lasts 6.8 months, from around Aug 28 to Mar 21. The brightest month is October, averaging about 6.7 kWh/m² (intense).

The dimmest month is May, down near 4.9 kWh/m² — roughly 26% less than the October peak.

012345678JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbrighterdimmerbrighterdimmoderatebrightintenseOct 236.8 kWhMay 154.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.0Bright
Feb6.2Intense
Mar5.9Bright
Apr5.3Bright
May4.9Bright
Jun5.0Bright
Jul5.1Bright
Aug5.5Bright
Sep6.4Intense
Oct6.7Intense
Nov6.5Intense
Dec6.0Intense

Where is Kibaigwa?

Kibaigwa sits at 6.1°S, 36.6°E, 1,186 m above sea level, in Tanzania. The nearest listed city is Geiro, 26 km away.

KibakweMsoweroDumilaMagoleLubataKilosa

Topography around Kibaigwa

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Kibaigwa has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 86 m around an average of 1,178 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 733 m; within 80 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,821 m.

The land around Kibaigwa is covered by cropland (58%) and grassland (23%) within 3 km, cropland (64%) and grassland (28%) within 16 km, and cropland (39%) and shrubs (26%) within 80 km.

3 km
86 m
16 km
733 m
80 km
1,821 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrain
Nearby: Geiro 26 km · Mpwapwa 35 km · Kibakwe 77 km · Msowero 79 km · Dumila 84 km · Magole 87 km · Lubata 89 km · Kilosa 92 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 Kibaigwa (-6.0812°, 36.6466°, elevation 1,186 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. Topography is sampled from the Copernicus DEM GLO-90 elevation model (© ESA/Airbus) and ESA WorldCover 2021 land cover (CC BY 4.0).