Climate and average weather in Kumi

In Kumi, 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 May.

Best: early May to late December

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Kumi typically varies from 19°C to 34°C, and is rarely below 18°C or above 37°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 Kumi for warm-weather activities are from early January to late January and early May to late December.

Hottest
Feb
34°
Coldest
Jul
19°
Wettest
May
154 mm
Driest
Jan
22 mm
Rain / yr
1104 mm
175 wet days
Daylight
11.9–12.1 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,142 m
1.5°N
Clearest
Jan
54% cloud

Kumi 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 early May to late December.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Kumi 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 21°C; the coolest is July, with an average low of 19°C and high of 29°C.

Days typically run about 11°C warmer than nights, with the widest day–night swing (around 14°C) in February.

15°20°25°30°35°40°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan3320
Feb3421
Mar3321
Apr3121
May2920
Jun2920
Jul2919
Aug2920
Sep3020
Oct3120
Nov3120
Dec3220

How hot and cold Kumi 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, Kumi feels like about 34°C (around February 16). About 118 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)
Jan33332020
Feb34342121
Mar33332121
Apr32312121
May31292020
Jun30292020
Jul29291919
Aug30292020
Sep31302020
Oct31312020
Nov31312020
Dec32322020

Average hourly temperature in Kumi

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 19°C.

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

Kumi 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° / 20°224.611.93.8
Feb34° / 21°234.5123.2
Mar33° / 21°6710.4123.3
Apr31° / 21°13118.9123.5
May29° / 20°15421.912.13.9
Jun29° / 20°12219.412.14.2
Jul29° / 19°11619.712.14.4
Aug29° / 20°13521124.1
Sep30° / 20°10416.3124.2
Oct31° / 20°11518.4123.7
Nov31° / 20°8313.711.94.0
Dec32° / 20°316.611.94.2

Chance of rain

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

Kumi gets about 1104 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 7.4 months, from around Apr 3 to Nov 12, peaking in May at about 78% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jan 29.

May is the wettest month by volume, with 154 mm over about 22 wet days; January is the driest, with 22 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwetterdriermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetMay 3 · 78%Jan 29 · 15%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan155
Feb175
Mar3310
Apr6319
May7022
Jun6419
Jul6520
Aug6721
Sep5516
Oct5918
Nov4514
Dec227

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Kumi collects about 1104 mm of rain across 175 wet days — roughly 92 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. May is the wettest month with 154 mm, while January is the driest at just 22 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 38% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150175200JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec2223671311541221161351041158331
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan225
Feb235
Mar6710
Apr13119
May15422
Jun12219
Jul11620
Aug13521
Sep10416
Oct11518
Nov8314
Dec317

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Kumi, 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 26 and lasts for 3.3 months, ending around October 2. The clearest month is September, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 58% 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 71% 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 10 · 62%Apr 24 · 24%clearmostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan5644
Feb5347
Mar4456
Apr2971
May4159
Jun4852
Jul5050
Aug5545
Sep5842
Oct3763
Nov3466
Dec5248

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, Kumi 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)
Jan11.96:566:51
Feb12.07:006:57
Mar12.06:546:54
Apr12.06:446:45
May12.16:396:42
Jun12.16:426:47
Jul12.16:486:52
Aug12.06:476:50
Sep12.06:386:39
Oct12.06:306:28
Nov11.96:326:27
Dec11.96:436:38

Sunny days

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

Kumi averages about 7 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 3 and 12 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.8 months, from around Dec 2 to Mar 28. The sunniest month is January, with roughly 11 sunny days (mixed).

The greyest month is April, down near 4 sunny days — about 63% fewer than the January peak.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedJan 3112 daysApr 273 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan11Mixed
Feb10Mixed
Mar9Mixed
Apr4Gloomy
May6Gloomy
Jun6Gloomy
Jul6Gloomy
Aug7Gloomy
Sep8Mixed
Oct5Gloomy
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 Kumi, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 7.4 months, from around March 31 to November 11. The muggiest month is May, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 99% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around November 12 to March 30, and January is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 69% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan 27 · 71%May 24 · 1%muggycomfortablehumiddrycomfortablehumidcomfortable
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan3831274
Feb4027285
Mar19234018
Apr373555
May011979
Jun023761
Jul036136
Aug055837
Sep195436
Oct1125335
Nov7244424
Dec27303310

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 Kumi is typically calm, near 6 km/h, and varies little with the seasons.

The windier part of the year lasts 4.3 months, from around Nov 26 to Apr 6. The windiest month is February, averaging about 8 km/h (calm).

The calmer part of the year runs from around Apr 7 to Nov 25, with May the calmest month at about 5 km/h.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecwindiercalmerwindiercalmlight breezeFeb 12 · 8 km/hMay 20 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan8calm
Feb8calm
Mar7calm
Apr6calm
May5calm
Jun5calm
Jul6calm
Aug6calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov6calm
Dec7calm

Best time to visit Kumi

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late December, Kumi 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 time of year to visit Kumi for general outdoor tourist activities is from early May to late January, with a peak score in the second week of July.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 8 · 4.4

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
Jan3.8fair
Feb3.3poor
Mar3.3poor
Apr3.5poor
May3.9fair
Jun4.3fair
Jul4.3fair
Aug4.1fair
Sep4.1fair
Oct3.7fair
Nov4.0fair
Dec4.2fair

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 Kumi for hot-weather activities run from early September to early October and again from mid November to early April, with a peak score in the last week of December.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationDec 28 · 7.0

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 Kumi, 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.

Kumi 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, Kumi sees daytime highs around 34°C and nights near 21°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. About 5 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Kumi 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 Kumi peaks around March 15 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 19 at about 10 (extreme).

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

025710JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecExtremeMar 15UV 15Jun 19UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan14Extreme
Feb15Extreme
Mar16Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun10Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct13Extreme
Nov12Extreme
Dec11Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Kumi

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)
Jan86.5
Feb8.56.5
Mar86.5
Apr8.56.5
May86
Jun7.55.5
Jul7.55.5
Aug86
Sep86
Oct86.5
Nov86
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Kumi 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 Kumi is worst in January — around 44 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), and holds fairly steady the rest of the year.

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorModeratePoorModeratePoorJan 1743 µg/m³Apr 1830 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan44Poor
Feb40Poor
Mar34Moderate
Apr30Moderate
May32Moderate
Jun38Poor
Jul39Poor
Aug33Moderate
Sep31Moderate
Oct32Moderate
Nov36Poor
Dec39Poor
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Kumi 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. Kumi banks about 5,673 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)
Jan517
Feb487
Mar529
Apr474
May458
Jun433
Jul435
Aug446
Sep450
Oct477
Nov468
Dec499

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.

Kumi receives about 5.6 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 5.0 and 6.3 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 256.3 kWhJul 155.0 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan6.0Intense
Feb6.3Intense
Mar6.2Intense
Apr5.5Bright
May5.3Bright
Jun5.1Bright
Jul5.0Bright
Aug5.4Bright
Sep5.9Bright
Oct5.7Bright
Nov5.5Bright
Dec5.7Bright

Where is Kumi?

Kumi sits at 1.5°N, 33.9°E, 1,142 m above sea level, in Uganda. The nearest listed city is Ngora, 18 km away.

NakalokeSironkoPallisaSorotiMbaleBudakaBudadiri

Topography around Kumi

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Kumi has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 60 m around an average of 1,128 m above sea level; within 16 km, only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 143 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 3,263 m.

The land around Kumi is covered by cropland (43%), grassland (25%) and shrubs (24%) within 3 km, cropland (41%), shrubs (29%) and grassland (24%) within 16 km, and grassland (27%), cropland (26%) and shrubs (24%) within 80 km.

3 km
60 m
16 km
143 m
80 km
3,263 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaceswaterwetland
Nearby: Ngora 18 km · Nakaloke 42 km · Sironko 43 km · Pallisa 43 km · Soroti 46 km · Mbale 50 km · Budaka 51 km · Budadiri 56 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 Kumi (1.4608°, 33.9361°, elevation 1,142 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).