Climate and average weather in Apac

In Apac, 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 April.

Best: mid May to early October

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Apac typically varies from 19°C to 32°C, and is rarely below 18°C or above 35°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 Apac for warm-weather activities are from mid May to early October and mid November to late December.

Hottest
Feb
32°
Coldest
Jul
19°
Wettest
Apr
168 mm
Driest
Jan
27 mm
Rain / yr
1252 mm
197 wet days
Daylight
11.9–12.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,038 m
2.0°N
Clearest
Jan
57% cloud

Apac is place in Northern Uganda, Uganda.

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

Apac 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 October.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Apac stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 32°C and low of 21°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 19°C and high of 27°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 11°C) in February.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3120
Feb3221
Mar3121
Apr2921
May2820
Jun2820
Jul2719
Aug2819
Sep2819
Oct2820
Nov2820
Dec3020

How hot and cold Apac 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, Apac feels like about 32°C (around February 11). About 38 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)
Jan31312020
Feb32322121
Mar32312121
Apr30292121
May29282020
Jun29282020
Jul29271919
Aug29281919
Sep30281919
Oct30282020
Nov30282020
Dec30302020

Average hourly temperature in Apac

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 32°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 19°C.

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

Apac 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
Jan31° / 20°275.411.94.9
Feb32° / 21°306.611.94.1
Mar31° / 21°10414.6123.9
Apr29° / 21°16822.5123.8
May28° / 20°14222.812.14.4
Jun28° / 20°9718.112.15.1
Jul27° / 19°9518.112.15.2
Aug28° / 19°13121.512.14.8
Sep28° / 19°12319.6124.5
Oct28° / 20°16121.8124.2
Nov28° / 20°12717.611.94.6
Dec30° / 20°477.911.95.4

Chance of rain

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

Apac gets about 1252 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 8.0 months, from around Mar 22 to Nov 19, peaking in April at about 82% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 4.

April is the wettest month by volume, with 168 mm over about 23 wet days; January is the driest, with 27 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 30 · 82%Jan 4 · 16%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan175
Feb247
Mar4715
Apr7523
May7323
Jun6118
Jul5918
Aug6922
Sep6520
Oct7022
Nov5818
Dec268

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Apac collects about 1252 mm of rain across 197 wet days — roughly 104 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. April is the wettest month with 168 mm, while January is the driest at just 27 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 38% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150175200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec2730104168142979513112316112747
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan275
Feb307
Mar10415
Apr16823
May14223
Jun9718
Jul9518
Aug13122
Sep12320
Oct16122
Nov12718
Dec478

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Apac, 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 June 24 and lasts for 3.2 months, ending around September 28. The clearest month is January, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 52% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 10 and lasts for 2.3 months, ending around May 19. The cloudiest month is April, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 75% 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 11 · 55%Apr 24 · 21%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5248
Feb4852
Mar4060
Apr2575
May3862
Jun4456
Jul4852
Aug5050
Sep5149
Oct3268
Nov3664
Dec5149

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, Apac barely changes through the year: days stay near 12 h 06 min of light in every season.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan11.97:026:56
Feb11.97:067:03
Mar12.07:006:59
Apr12.06:496:51
May12.16:436:49
Jun12.16:476:53
Jul12.16:526:59
Aug12.16:526:56
Sep12.06:446:44
Oct12.06:366:34
Nov11.96:386:32
Dec11.96:496:43

Sunny days

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

Apac averages about 7 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 11 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.7 months, from around Nov 27 to Mar 18. The sunniest month is January, with roughly 10 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is April, down near 3 sunny days — about 68% fewer than the January peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedJan 2911 daysApr 252 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan10Mixed
Feb8Mixed
Mar7Gloomy
Apr3Gloomy
May5Gloomy
Jun6Gloomy
Jul6Gloomy
Aug7Gloomy
Sep7Gloomy
Oct4Gloomy
Nov5Gloomy
Dec10Mixed

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 8.5 months, from around March 22 to December 4. The muggiest month is April, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 100% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around December 5 to March 21, and February is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 41% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 6 · 50%Apr 13 · 0%muggyhumidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)Oppressive (%)
Jan222035230
Feb241731270
Mar5924620
Apr004951
May001981
Jun008920
Jul0026730
Aug0018820
Sep0113860
Oct0013870
Nov0221760
Dec71438400

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 Apac is steady company: average speeds sit near 6 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeFeb 10 · 7 km/hJun 12 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar7calm
Apr6calm
May6calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Best time to visit Apac

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 18 · 5.5

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
Jan4.9fair
Feb4.1fair
Mar3.9fair
Apr3.8fair
May4.4fair
Jun5.1fair
Jul5.2fair
Aug4.8fair
Sep4.5fair
Oct4.2fair
Nov4.6fair
Dec5.4fair

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 Apac 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 29 · 7.5

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 Apac, 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.

Apac packs about the same all year — highs hold near 32°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, Apac sees daytime highs around 32°C and nights near 21°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 7 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Apac 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 Apac peaks around March 16 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 20 at about 10 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 16UV 15Jun 20UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan12Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun10Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct14Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec11Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Apac

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)
Jan86
Feb86.5
Mar8.57
Apr86.5
May86
Jun7.55.5
Jul7.55.5
Aug7.55.5
Sep86
Oct86
Nov7.55.5
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Apac 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 Apac is worst in January — around 55 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 3.4× the cleanest month (April, 16 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorModerateJan 1852 µg/m³Apr 2016 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan55Poor
Feb39Poor
Mar21Moderate
Apr16Moderate
May17Moderate
Jun26Moderate
Jul28Moderate
Aug22Moderate
Sep19Moderate
Oct19Moderate
Nov23Moderate
Dec33Moderate
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Apac 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. Apac banks about 5,290 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around February.

02,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan488
Feb467
Mar498
Apr441
May438
Jun411
Jul411
Aug415
Sep415
Oct432
Nov420
Dec455

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.

Apac receives about 5.8 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 5.2 and 6.3 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 206.3 kWhJun 225.2 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.1Intense
Feb6.3Intense
Mar6.3Intense
Apr5.8Bright
May5.5Bright
Jun5.2Bright
Jul5.2Bright
Aug5.5Bright
Sep6.0Intense
Oct5.9Bright
Nov5.9Bright
Dec5.9Bright

Where is Apac?

Apac sits at 2.0°N, 32.5°E, 1,038 m above sea level, in Uganda. The nearest listed city is Kiryandongo Refugee Camp, 42 km away.

Kiryandongo Refugee CampBuyaleLiraKigumbaOpitDokoloGuluAnaka

Topography around Apac

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Apac has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 37 m around an average of 1,049 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 62 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 528 m.

The land around Apac is covered by shrubs (38%) and cropland (33%) within 3 km, cropland (57%) and shrubs (24%) within 16 km, and cropland (38%) and shrubs (22%) within 80 km.

3 km
37 m
16 km
62 m
80 km
528 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Kiryandongo Refugee Camp 42 km · Buyale 47 km · Lira 50 km · Kigumba 62 km · Opit 71 km · Dokolo 72 km · Gulu 93 km · Anaka 96 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 Apac (1.9756°, 32.5386°, elevation 1,038 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).