Climate and average weather in Buhesi

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

Best: late May to mid August

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Buhesi typically varies from 14°C to 26°C, and is rarely below 13°C or above 29°C. February is the hottest month of the year, while November is the coldest.

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

Hottest
Feb
26°
Coldest
Nov
15°
Wettest
Nov
264 mm
Driest
Jan
78 mm
Rain / yr
2037 mm
244 wet days
Daylight
12.0–12.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,590 m
0.6°N
Clearest
Jul
72% cloud

Buhesi 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 late May to mid August.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Buhesi stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 26°C and low of 15°C; the coolest is November, with an average low of 15°C and high of 23°C.

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

10°15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2515
Feb2615
Mar2515
Apr2516
May2415
Jun2515
Jul2414
Aug2415
Sep2515
Oct2415
Nov2315
Dec2414

Average hourly temperature in Buhesi

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 26°C, and coldest before dawn in November, near 15°C.

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

Buhesi 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
Jan25° / 15°7811.8126.3
Feb26° / 15°8811.6126.0
Mar25° / 15°20322.3124.7
Apr25° / 16°23925.9124.1
May24° / 15°21023.4124.7
Jun25° / 15°13815.6125.7
Jul24° / 14°9114.1126.1
Aug24° / 15°16020.5125.1
Sep25° / 15°18224124.5
Oct24° / 15°24328.1123.9
Nov23° / 15°26427.8123.8
Dec24° / 14°14118.8125.4

Chance of rain

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

Buhesi gets about 2037 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 4.0 months, from around Aug 14 to Dec 12, peaking in November at about 96% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 5.

November is the wettest month by volume, with 264 mm over about 28 wet days; January is the driest, with 78 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetNov 6 · 96%Feb 5 · 33%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan3812
Feb4212
Mar7122
Apr8726
May7523
Jun5316
Jul4614
Aug6721
Sep7924
Oct9028
Nov9228
Dec6119

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Buhesi collects about 2037 mm of rain across 244 wet days — roughly 170 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. November is the wettest month with 264 mm, while January is the driest at just 78 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 37% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec788820323921013891160182243264141
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan7812
Feb8812
Mar20322
Apr23926
May21023
Jun13816
Jul9114
Aug16021
Sep18224
Oct24328
Nov26428
Dec14119

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Buhesi, the average share of the sky covered by clouds shows moderate seasonal variation over the course of the year.

The clearer part of the year begins around May 11 and lasts for 4.2 months, ending around September 15. The clearest month is June, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 27% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 16 and lasts for 2.8 months, ending around December 8. The cloudiest month is October, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 92% 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecMay 28 · 33%Nov 7 · 7%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan2773
Feb2476
Mar1882
Apr1189
May2476
Jun2773
Jul2674
Aug2377
Sep1882
Oct892
Nov991
Dec2476

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, Buhesi barely changes through the year: days stay near 12 hours of light in every season.

12 AM4 AM8 AM12 PM4 PM8 PM12 AMJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)Sunrise (AM)Sunset (PM)
Jan12.07:097:08
Feb12.07:147:13
Mar12.07:097:09
Apr12.06:597:00
May12.06:556:56
Jun12.06:587:00
Jul12.07:047:06
Aug12.07:037:04
Sep12.06:536:54
Oct12.06:456:44
Nov12.06:456:44
Dec12.06:566:54

Sunny days

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

Buhesi averages about 2 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 4 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 2.8 months, from around Dec 7 to Mar 2. The sunniest month is January, with roughly 3 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is October, down near 0 sunny days — about 91% fewer than the January peak.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedJan 314 daysOct 220 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan3Gloomy
Feb3Gloomy
Mar1Gloomy
Apr1Gloomy
May3Gloomy
Jun2Gloomy
Jul2Gloomy
Aug1Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct0Gloomy
Nov1Gloomy
Dec3Gloomy

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 2.8 months, from around March 3 to May 26. The muggiest month is May, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 33% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around May 27 to October 15, 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 9 · 100%May 1 · 47%humidcomfortabledryhumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)
Jan42516
Feb43498
Mar145927
Apr15445
May46333
Jun24697
Jul43561
Aug24723
Sep12825
Oct38017
Nov17228
Dec196813

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 Buhesi is steady company: average speeds sit near 4 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmMay 21 · 5 km/hNov 5 · 4 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan5calm
Feb5calm
Mar4calm
Apr4calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul4calm
Aug4calm
Sep4calm
Oct4calm
Nov4calm
Dec5calm

Best time to visit Buhesi

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around early June, Buhesi 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 times of year to visit Buhesi for general outdoor tourist activities run from late May to mid August and again from mid December to early March, with a peak score in the first week of February.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 2 · 6.4

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
Jan6.3good
Feb6.0good
Mar4.7fair
Apr4.1fair
May4.7fair
Jun5.7good
Jul6.1good
Aug5.1fair
Sep4.5fair
Oct3.9fair
Nov3.9fair
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 times of year to visit Buhesi for hot-weather activities run from late May to late July and again from late December to early March, with a peak score in the first week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 6 · 6.1

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 Buhesi, 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.

Buhesi packs about the same all year — highs hold near 26°C. Across the year the things worth having are light clothes, rain gear and sun protection.

Light clothing
Warm layer
Winter coat
Rain gear
Sun protection
Windbreaker

In February, Buhesi sees daytime highs around 26°C and nights near 15°C. Worth packing: light clothes, rain gear and sun protection. About 12 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Buhesi 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 Buhesi peaks around March 18 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 21 at about 10 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 18UV 15Jun 21UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan12Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar16Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun10Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct14Extreme
Nov12Extreme
Dec11Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Buhesi

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 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
Mar86.5
Apr8.56.5
May86
Jun7.55.5
Jul7.55.5
Aug86
Sep86
Oct86.5
Nov86
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Buhesi 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 Buhesi is worst in February — around 66 µg/m³ PM2.5 (unhealthy), about 2.6× the cleanest month (April, 26 µg/m³).

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

020406080JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecUnhealthyPoorModeratePoorModeratePoorFeb 966 µg/m³Apr 2226 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan64Unhealthy
Feb66Unhealthy
Mar39Poor
Apr26Moderate
May27Moderate
Jun35Poor
Jul42Poor
Aug33Moderate
Sep28Moderate
Oct26Moderate
Nov28Moderate
Dec44Poor
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Buhesi 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. Buhesi banks about 3,529 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around February.

01,0002,0003,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan303
Feb294
Mar319
Apr300
May306
Jun289
Jul291
Aug295
Sep287
Oct292
Nov271
Dec283

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.

Buhesi receives about 5.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 5.0 and 5.9 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 135.9 kWhJul 285.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.6Bright
Feb5.9Bright
Mar5.8Bright
Apr5.5Bright
May5.4Bright
Jun5.1Bright
Jul5.0Bright
Aug5.2Bright
Sep5.5Bright
Oct5.4Bright
Nov5.2Bright
Dec5.4Bright

Where is Buhesi?

Buhesi sits at 0.6°N, 30.2°E, 1,590 m above sea level, in Uganda. The nearest listed city is Fort Portal, 12 km away.

KyarusoziKyenjojoKaseseKamwenge

Topography around Buhesi

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Buhesi has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 202 m around an average of 1,550 m above sea level; within 16 km, very significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 2,208 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 4,373 m.

The land around Buhesi is covered by trees (46%), shrubs (31%) and grassland (21%) within 3 km, trees (67%) within 16 km, and trees (62%) and grassland (23%) within 80 km.

3 km
202 m
16 km
2,208 m
80 km
4,373 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Fort Portal 12 km · Bundibugyo 22 km · Rwiimi 23 km · Nyahuka 26 km · Kyarusozi 42 km · Kyenjojo 46 km · Kasese 46 km · Kamwenge 52 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 Buhesi (0.581°, 30.2101°, elevation 1,590 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).