Climate and average weather in Adjumani

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

Best: mid May to late August

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Adjumani typically varies from 21°C to 34°C, and is rarely below 20°C or above 36°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 Adjumani for warm-weather activities are from mid May to late August and early November to late December.

Hottest
Feb
34°
Coldest
Jul
21°
Wettest
Oct
164 mm
Driest
Jan
8 mm
Rain / yr
1128 mm
171 wet days
Daylight
11.8–12.2 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
816 m
3.4°N
Clearest
Dec
51% cloud

Adjumani is place in Northern Region of Uganda, Uganda.

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

Adjumani 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 August.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Adjumani 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 24°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 21°C and high of 29°C.

Days typically run about 8°C warmer than nights year-round.

20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3323
Feb3424
Mar3324
Apr3123
May3023
Jun2922
Jul2921
Aug2921
Sep2922
Oct3022
Nov3022
Dec3223

How hot and cold Adjumani 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, Adjumani feels like about 34°C (around March 17). About 209 days a year carry some heat stress, peaking in March.

20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Feels-like high (°C)Air high (°C)Feels-like low (°C)Air low (°C)
Jan33332323
Feb34342424
Mar34332424
Apr34312323
May33302223
Jun31292222
Jul30292121
Aug31292121
Sep32292222
Oct32302222
Nov32302222
Dec32322323

Average hourly temperature in Adjumani

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 21°C.

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

Adjumani 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° / 23°81.811.84.4
Feb34° / 24°102.811.93.7
Mar33° / 24°589.4123.3
Apr31° / 23°13818.312.13.4
May30° / 23°12819.212.23.9
Jun29° / 22°9717.412.24.4
Jul29° / 21°12420.812.24.3
Aug29° / 21°14823.212.14.0
Sep29° / 22°12318.5124.2
Oct30° / 22°16420.511.93.9
Nov30° / 22°10814.611.84.2
Dec32° / 23°224.211.84.9

Chance of rain

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

Adjumani gets about 1128 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 7.7 months, from around Mar 30 to Nov 17, peaking in August at about 75% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 9.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 164 mm over about 21 wet days; January is the driest, with 8 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetAug 23 · 75%Jan 9 · 5%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan62
Feb103
Mar319
Apr6118
May6219
Jun5817
Jul6721
Aug7423
Sep6219
Oct6621
Nov4815
Dec144

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Adjumani collects about 1128 mm of rain across 171 wet days — roughly 94 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 164 mm, while January is the driest at just 8 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 40% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150175200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec810581381289712414812316410822
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan82
Feb103
Mar589
Apr13818
May12819
Jun9717
Jul12421
Aug14823
Sep12319
Oct16421
Nov10815
Dec224

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Adjumani, 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 20 and lasts for 3.5 months, ending around March 7. The clearest month is December, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 63% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 8 and lasts for 2.4 months, ending around May 20. The cloudiest month is April, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 70% 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 23 · 66%Apr 27 · 28%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan6139
Feb5644
Mar4258
Apr3070
May4258
Jun4951
Jul4852
Aug4753
Sep5149
Oct3565
Nov4555
Dec6337

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, Adjumani 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)
Jan11.87:076:57
Feb11.97:117:04
Mar12.07:037:02
Apr12.16:516:55
May12.26:446:54
Jun12.26:476:59
Jul12.26:537:04
Aug12.16:547:00
Sep12.06:476:48
Oct11.96:406:36
Nov11.86:436:33
Dec11.86:556:43

Sunny days

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

Adjumani averages about 8 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 4 and 14 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.6 months, from around Nov 18 to Mar 8. The sunniest month is December, with roughly 13 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is April, down near 4 sunny days — about 66% fewer than the December peak.

05101520JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedbrightDec 2114 daysApr 274 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan13Mixed
Feb10Mixed
Mar7Gloomy
Apr4Gloomy
May7Gloomy
Jun8Mixed
Jul7Gloomy
Aug7Gloomy
Sep8Mixed
Oct5Gloomy
Nov8Gloomy
Dec13Mixed

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 8.7 months, from around March 22 to December 10. The muggiest month is April, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 99% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around December 11 to March 21, and February is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 48% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 4 · 59%Apr 23 · 0%oppressivehumidmuggycomfortabledrycomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan203132170
Feb242532190
Mar41226545
Apr0155736
May0004258
Jun0007326
Jul0028910
Aug0008218
Sep0006931
Oct0016534
Nov0197614
Dec41634441

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 Adjumani is typically calm, near 5 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 5.1 months, from around Nov 23 to Apr 25. The windiest month is February, averaging about 7 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 26 to Nov 22, with August the calmest month at about 4 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeFeb 10 · 7 km/hAug 1 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar7calm
Apr6calm
May5calm
Jun4calm
Jul4calm
Aug4calm
Sep4calm
Oct4calm
Nov5calm
Dec6calm

Best time to visit Adjumani

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around mid August, Adjumani 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 Adjumani for general outdoor tourist activities run from mid May to mid October and again from early November to early February, with a peak score in the second week of December.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 14 · 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
Jan4.4fair
Feb3.7fair
Mar3.3poor
Apr3.4poor
May3.9fair
Jun4.4fair
Jul4.3fair
Aug4.0fair
Sep4.2fair
Oct3.9fair
Nov4.3fair
Dec4.8fair

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 Adjumani for hot-weather activities is from late November to mid March, with a peak score in the last week of December.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 28 · 7.7

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 Adjumani, 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.

Adjumani packs about the same all year — highs hold near 34°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 February, Adjumani sees daytime highs around 34°C and nights near 24°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection.

UV index (midday) in Adjumani 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 Adjumani peaks around March 16 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 13 at about 10 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 16UV 15Dec 13UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun10Extreme
Jul10Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov10Extreme
Dec10Very high

Average hourly UV index in Adjumani

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

Air quality in Adjumani 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 Adjumani is worst in January — around 107 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 7.7× the cleanest month (April, 14 µg/m³).

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

0306090120JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyModerateUnhealthyJan 13103 µg/m³Apr 2314 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan107Unhealthy
Feb43Poor
Mar21Moderate
Apr14Moderate
May14Moderate
Jun22Moderate
Jul23Moderate
Aug19Moderate
Sep16Moderate
Oct15Moderate
Nov24Moderate
Dec81Unhealthy
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Adjumani 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. Adjumani banks about 6,026 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)
Jan555
Feb523
Mar575
Apr514
May503
Jun467
Jul461
Aug460
Sep463
Oct487
Nov486
Dec531

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.

Adjumani receives about 5.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 5.2 and 6.2 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 146.2 kWhJul 235.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.0Bright
Feb6.2Intense
Mar6.0Intense
Apr5.8Bright
May5.6Bright
Jun5.3Bright
Jul5.2Bright
Aug5.5Bright
Sep5.9Bright
Oct5.7Bright
Nov5.7Bright
Dec5.7Bright

Where is Adjumani?

Adjumani sits at 3.4°N, 31.8°E, 816 m above sea level, in Uganda. The nearest listed city is Moyo, 32 km away.

YumbeGuluAnakaKobokoPajokAruaPakwach

Topography around Adjumani

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Adjumani has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 91 m around an average of 799 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 287 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,019 m.

The land around Adjumani is covered by grassland (50%) within 3 km, grassland (68%) within 16 km, and grassland (54%) and shrubs (25%) within 80 km.

3 km
91 m
16 km
287 m
80 km
1,019 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Moyo 32 km · Yumbe 61 km · Gulu 88 km · Anaka 88 km · Koboko 92 km · Pajok 94 km · Arua 105 km · Pakwach 107 km

Uganda travel facts

Travel advisory
Level 4
Do Not Travel
Power plugs
Type G
240 V · 50 Hz
Prices
≈ 35% of US
price level, 2025
GDP per capita
$1,206
2025
Happiness
4.5 / 10
World Happiness, 2025
Safe drinking water
18%
of population, 2024
Homicide rate
9
per 100k, 2023
Road deaths
29.4
per 100k/yr, 2019
Income group
Low
World Bank
English
Moderate
EF EPI 518
Religion
Protestant 45%Roman Catholic 39%Muslim 14%other 2%

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 Adjumani (3.3779°, 31.7909°, elevation 816 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).