Climate and average weather in Kiryandongo Refugee Camp

In Kiryandongo Refugee Camp, 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 October.

Best: mid May to mid September

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Kiryandongo Refugee Camp typically varies from 19°C to 33°C, and is rarely below 18°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 Kiryandongo Refugee Camp for warm-weather activities are from mid May to mid September and mid November to late January.

Hottest
Feb
33°
Coldest
Jul
19°
Wettest
Oct
177 mm
Driest
Jan
26 mm
Rain / yr
1313 mm
196 wet days
Daylight
11.9–12.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,138 m
1.9°N
Clearest
Jan
59% cloud

Kiryandongo Refugee Camp 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 mid September.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Kiryandongo Refugee Camp stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 33°C and low of 21°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 19°C and high of 28°C.

Days typically run about 10°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 12°C) in February.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3120
Feb3321
Mar3121
Apr2920
May2820
Jun2819
Jul2819
Aug2819
Sep2819
Oct2819
Nov2819
Dec3019

How hot and cold Kiryandongo Refugee Camp 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, Kiryandongo Refugee Camp feels like about 33°C (around February 12). About 39 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
Feb32332121
Mar32312121
Apr30292020
May30282020
Jun29281919
Jul28281919
Aug29281919
Sep30281919
Oct30281919
Nov30281919
Dec30301919

Average hourly temperature in Kiryandongo Refugee Camp

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 33°C, and coldest before dawn in July, near 19°C.

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

Kiryandongo Refugee Camp 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°26511.94.8
Feb33° / 21°306.511.93.9
Mar31° / 21°10514.4123.8
Apr29° / 20°16321.8123.8
May28° / 20°13721.912.14.3
Jun28° / 19°10317.512.15.1
Jul28° / 19°11118.312.15.1
Aug28° / 19°14722.512.14.6
Sep28° / 19°13920.9124.3
Oct28° / 19°17722.6124.1
Nov28° / 19°12817.211.94.6
Dec30° / 19°467.811.95.3

Chance of rain

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

Kiryandongo Refugee Camp gets about 1313 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 7.9 months, from around Mar 23 to Nov 18, peaking in April at about 79% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 4.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 177 mm over about 23 wet days; January is the driest, with 26 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetApr 29 · 79%Jan 4 · 15%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan165
Feb237
Mar4714
Apr7222
May7022
Jun5918
Jul6018
Aug7223
Sep7021
Oct7223
Nov5717
Dec268

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Kiryandongo Refugee Camp collects about 1313 mm of rain across 196 wet days — roughly 109 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 177 mm, while January is the driest at just 26 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 37% of the year’s total.

050100150200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec263010516313710311114713917712846
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan265
Feb307
Mar10514
Apr16322
May13722
Jun10318
Jul11118
Aug14723
Sep13921
Oct17723
Nov12817
Dec468

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Kiryandongo Refugee Camp, 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 December 1 and lasts for 3.3 months, ending around March 11. The clearest month is January, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 51% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around March 12 and lasts for 2.3 months, ending around May 19. The cloudiest month is April, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 77% 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 22 · 53%Apr 23 · 19%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastclearercloudierclearer
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5149
Feb4555
Mar3763
Apr2377
May3664
Jun4258
Jul4456
Aug4456
Sep4654
Oct2872
Nov3367
Dec4951

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, Kiryandongo Refugee Camp 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)
Jan11.97:046:58
Feb11.97:087:04
Mar12.07:017:01
Apr12.06:506:53
May12.16:456:50
Jun12.16:486:55
Jul12.16:547:00
Aug12.16:546:57
Sep12.06:456:46
Oct12.06:386:35
Nov11.96:396:34
Dec11.96:516:44

Sunny days

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

Kiryandongo Refugee Camp averages about 6 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 2 and 10 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.9 months, from around Nov 24 to Mar 21. The sunniest month is January, with roughly 10 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is April, down near 3 sunny days — about 69% fewer than the January peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedJan 2610 daysApr 282 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan10Mixed
Feb7Gloomy
Mar6Gloomy
Apr3Gloomy
May4Gloomy
Jun5Gloomy
Jul5Gloomy
Aug5Gloomy
Sep5Gloomy
Oct4Gloomy
Nov5Gloomy
Dec9Mixed

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 Kiryandongo Refugee Camp, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 8.4 months, from around March 24 to December 3. 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 4 to March 23, and February is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 51% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 6 · 59%Apr 22 · 0%muggycomfortablehumiddrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan28263511
Feb30213713
Mar8123545
Apr01990
May00496
Jun002376
Jul024553
Aug003070
Sep011980
Oct001981
Nov042867
Dec10204426

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 Kiryandongo Refugee Camp 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 11 · 8 km/hJun 19 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar7calm
Apr6calm
May6calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct5calm
Nov6calm
Dec6calm

Best time to visit Kiryandongo Refugee Camp

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 18 · 5.4

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
Jan4.8fair
Feb3.9fair
Mar3.8fair
Apr3.8fair
May4.3fair
Jun5.1fair
Jul5.1fair
Aug4.6fair
Sep4.4fair
Oct4.1fair
Nov4.6fair
Dec5.3fair

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 Kiryandongo Refugee Camp 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 30 · 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 Kiryandongo Refugee Camp, 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.

Kiryandongo Refugee Camp packs about the same all year — highs hold near 33°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, Kiryandongo Refugee Camp sees daytime highs around 33°C and nights near 21°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 7 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Kiryandongo Refugee Camp 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 Kiryandongo Refugee Camp peaks around March 16 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near December 14 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 15Dec 14UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan12Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun10Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec10Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Kiryandongo Refugee Camp

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
Aug86
Sep86
Oct86
Nov7.55.5
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Kiryandongo Refugee Camp 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 Kiryandongo Refugee Camp 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

Kiryandongo Refugee Camp 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. Kiryandongo Refugee Camp banks about 5,206 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)
Jan482
Feb462
Mar495
Apr436
May430
Jun403
Jul403
Aug407
Sep405
Oct423
Nov413
Dec447

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.

Kiryandongo Refugee Camp receives about 5.7 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 5.1 and 6.3 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 166.3 kWhJun 215.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.0Intense
Feb6.3Intense
Mar6.2Intense
Apr5.7Bright
May5.4Bright
Jun5.2Bright
Jul5.2Bright
Aug5.4Bright
Sep5.9Bright
Oct5.8Bright
Nov5.8Bright
Dec5.8Bright

Where is Kiryandongo Refugee Camp?

Kiryandongo Refugee Camp sits at 1.9°N, 32.2°E, 1,138 m above sea level, in Uganda. The nearest listed city is Buyale, 6.0 km away.

ApacMasindiAnakaOpitLiraGulu

Topography around Kiryandongo Refugee Camp

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Kiryandongo Refugee Camp has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 75 m around an average of 1,101 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 207 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 763 m.

The land around Kiryandongo Refugee Camp is covered by cropland (56%) and grassland (21%) within 3 km, cropland (41%) and shrubs (29%) within 16 km, and grassland (26%), cropland (23%) and trees (22%) within 80 km.

3 km
75 m
16 km
207 m
80 km
763 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Buyale 6.0 km · Kigumba 23 km · Apac 42 km · Masindi 58 km · Anaka 77 km · Opit 82 km · Lira 89 km · Gulu 94 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 Kiryandongo Refugee Camp (1.9399°, 32.166°, elevation 1,138 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).