Climate and average weather in Bunamwaya

In Bunamwaya, the weather is humid, warm, wet, and partly cloudy and remarkably steady, with daytime highs holding near warm levels all year. The wettest stretch peaks around April.

Best: late May to early September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Bunamwaya typically varies from 19°C to 26°C, and is rarely below 18°C or above 28°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 Bunamwaya for warm-weather activities are from early January to mid March and late May to early September.

Hottest
Feb
26°
Coldest
Jul
19°
Wettest
Apr
220 mm
Driest
Jul
83 mm
Rain / yr
1678 mm
285 wet days
Daylight
12.0–12.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,203 m
0.3°N
Clearest
Jul
66% cloud

Bunamwaya 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 early September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Bunamwaya 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 21°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 19°C and high of 24°C.

Days typically run about 5°C warmer than nights year-round.

15°20°25°30°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2520
Feb2621
Mar2521
Apr2420
May2420
Jun2420
Jul2419
Aug2419
Sep2519
Oct2520
Nov2420
Dec2520

Average hourly temperature in Bunamwaya

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 July, near 19°C.

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

Bunamwaya 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° / 20°10819.6125.2
Feb26° / 21°10318.4125.1
Mar25° / 21°16525.2124.4
Apr24° / 20°22027.7123.8
May24° / 20°18827.8124.1
Jun24° / 20°11522.5124.9
Jul24° / 19°8317.9125.6
Aug24° / 19°10922.7125.0
Sep25° / 19°12125124.4
Oct25° / 20°15427.7124.0
Nov24° / 20°17926.9124.0
Dec25° / 20°13323.9124.7

Chance of rain

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

Bunamwaya gets about 1678 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 2.8 months, from around Mar 12 to Jun 5, peaking in May at about 95% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 12.

April is the wettest month by volume, with 220 mm over about 28 wet days; July is the driest, with 83 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 3 · 95%Jul 12 · 57%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan6420
Feb6618
Mar8125
Apr9328
May8928
Jun7423
Jul6018
Aug7323
Sep8325
Oct8928
Nov9027
Dec7624

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Bunamwaya collects about 1678 mm of rain across 285 wet days — roughly 140 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. April is the wettest month with 220 mm, while July is the driest at just 83 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 35% of the year’s total.

050100150200250JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec10810316522018811583109121154179133
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan10820
Feb10318
Mar16525
Apr22028
May18828
Jun11523
Jul8318
Aug10923
Sep12125
Oct15428
Nov17927
Dec13324

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Bunamwaya, 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 22 and lasts for 4.0 months, ending around September 19. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 42% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 18 and lasts for 2.1 months, ending around May 21. The cloudiest month is April, 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%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 15 · 45%Apr 22 · 9%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3961
Feb3862
Mar2971
Apr1288
May2377
Jun3466
Jul4258
Aug3961
Sep3169
Oct1783
Nov1684
Dec3268

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, Bunamwaya 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)
Jan12.06:596:59
Feb12.07:057:04
Mar12.06:596:59
Apr12.06:506:50
May12.06:466:46
Jun12.06:506:50
Jul12.06:556:56
Aug12.06:546:54
Sep12.06:446:44
Oct12.06:356:35
Nov12.06:356:35
Dec12.06:466:45

Sunny days

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

Bunamwaya averages about 4 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 1 and 7 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.2 months, from around Dec 10 to Mar 16. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 6 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is April, down near 1 sunny days — about 79% fewer than the February peak.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyergloomymixedFeb 27 daysApr 251 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan6Gloomy
Feb6Gloomy
Mar4Gloomy
Apr1Gloomy
May3Gloomy
Jun4Gloomy
Jul5Gloomy
Aug6Gloomy
Sep4Gloomy
Oct2Gloomy
Nov2Gloomy
Dec5Gloomy

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.

Bunamwaya is humid all year round — on a typical day the air feels at least humid, and there is no real dry season to wait for.

The stickiest month is March, when it feels muggy, oppressive or miserable about 93% of the time. Even in January, the mildest month, the air is dry or comfortable only 6% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecmuggyhumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan152569
Feb121979
Mar00793
Apr00496
May00991
Jun014851
Jul047521
Aug015643
Sep002575
Oct001189
Nov001090
Dec012277

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 Bunamwaya is steady company: average speeds sit near 8 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeJul 10 · 9 km/hDec 7 · 6 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb8calm
Mar8calm
Apr9calm
May9calm
Jun8calm
Jul9calm
Aug8calm
Sep8calm
Oct7calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Best time to visit Bunamwaya

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late August, Bunamwaya 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 Bunamwaya for general outdoor tourist activities run from late May to early September and again from mid December to early March, with a peak score in the second week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 13 · 5.7

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
Feb5.1fair
Mar4.4fair
Apr3.8fair
May4.1fair
Jun4.9fair
Jul5.6good
Aug5.0fair
Sep4.4fair
Oct4.0fair
Nov4.0fair
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 times of year to visit Bunamwaya for hot-weather activities run from early June to late August and again from mid December to mid March, with a peak score in the first week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 2 · 5.1

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 Bunamwaya, 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.

Bunamwaya 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, Bunamwaya sees daytime highs around 26°C and nights near 21°C. Pack rain gear. Worth having: light clothes and sun protection. About 18 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Bunamwaya 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 Bunamwaya peaks around March 17 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 17 at about 10 (very high).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeExtremeMar 17UV 15Jun 17UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan12Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May11Extreme
Jun10Very high
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov12Extreme
Dec11Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Bunamwaya

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
Jul7.55.5
Aug7.55.5
Sep86
Oct86
Nov7.55.5
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Bunamwaya 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 Bunamwaya is worst in January — around 49 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 1.8× the cleanest month (May, 27 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorModeratePoorJan 1648 µg/m³May 1127 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan49Poor
Feb41Poor
Mar32Moderate
Apr28Moderate
May27Moderate
Jun35Moderate
Jul37Poor
Aug39Poor
Sep38Poor
Oct37Poor
Nov38Poor
Dec42Poor
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Bunamwaya 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. Bunamwaya banks about 4,459 degree days a year, and the running total — which growers use to time plantings and predict maturity — climbs fastest around February.

01,0002,0003,0004,000JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Growing degree days (°C·days)
Jan397
Feb372
Mar403
Apr370
May375
Jun355
Jul356
Aug360
Sep359
Oct373
Nov359
Dec381

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.

Bunamwaya receives about 5.2 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.4 and 5.9 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 115.9 kWhApr 294.4 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.6Bright
Feb5.9Bright
Mar5.5Bright
Apr4.7Bright
May4.7Bright
Jun4.8Bright
Jul5.0Bright
Aug5.2Bright
Sep5.4Bright
Oct5.1Bright
Nov4.9Bright
Dec5.2Bright

Where is Bunamwaya?

Bunamwaya sits at 0.3°N, 32.6°E, 1,203 m above sea level, in Uganda. The nearest listed city is Kajansi, 5.0 km away.

Topography around Bunamwaya

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Bunamwaya has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 162 m around an average of 1,204 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 195 m; within 80 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 411 m.

The land around Bunamwaya is covered by artificial surfaces (62%) and trees (22%) within 3 km, artificial surfaces (32%) and trees (27%) within 16 km, and water (34%), trees (33%) and shrubs (20%) within 80 km.

3 km
162 m
16 km
195 m
80 km
411 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfacesbare terrainwaterwetland
Nearby: Kajansi 5.0 km · Kampala 8.0 km · Kyengera 8.0 km · Nansana 13 km · Kireka 15 km · Kira 18 km · Wakiso 20 km · Kasanje 21 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 Bunamwaya (0.2534°, 32.5572°, elevation 1,203 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).