Climate and average weather in Kyarusozi

In Kyarusozi, 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 October.

Best: mid December to early March

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Kyarusozi typically varies from 16°C to 28°C, and is rarely below 15°C or above 30°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 Kyarusozi for warm-weather activities are from late May to late July and mid December to early March.

Hottest
Feb
28°
Coldest
Nov
16°
Wettest
Oct
248 mm
Driest
Jan
47 mm
Rain / yr
1726 mm
234 wet days
Daylight
12.0–12.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,459 m
0.8°N
Clearest
Jul
68% cloud

Kyarusozi 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 December to early March.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Kyarusozi stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 28°C and low of 17°C; the coolest is November, with an average low of 16°C and high of 25°C.

Days typically run about 9°C warmer than nights year-round.

10°15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2716
Feb2817
Mar2717
Apr2617
May2617
Jun2616
Jul2616
Aug2516
Sep2516
Oct2516
Nov2516
Dec2516

Average hourly temperature in Kyarusozi

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 28°C, and coldest before dawn in November, near 16°C.

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

Kyarusozi 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
Jan27° / 16°478.6126.6
Feb28° / 17°498.6126.2
Mar27° / 17°13719124.9
Apr26° / 17°19425.6124.0
May26° / 17°15122.8124.6
Jun26° / 16°10315.4125.6
Jul26° / 16°9715.2125.8
Aug25° / 16°16321.9124.8
Sep25° / 16°19125.9124.2
Oct25° / 16°24828.6123.8
Nov25° / 16°23927124.0
Dec25° / 16°10915.4125.8

Chance of rain

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

Kyarusozi gets about 1726 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 4.3 months, from around Jul 31 to Dec 7, peaking in November at about 97% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Feb 7.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 248 mm over about 29 wet days; January is the driest, with 47 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%110%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetNov 1 · 97%Feb 7 · 25%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan289
Feb319
Mar6119
Apr8526
May7323
Jun5215
Jul5015
Aug7122
Sep8526
Oct9229
Nov8927
Dec5015

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Kyarusozi collects about 1726 mm of rain across 234 wet days — roughly 144 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 248 mm, while January is the driest at just 47 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 39% of the year’s total.

050100150200250300JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec474913719415110397163191248239109
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan479
Feb499
Mar13719
Apr19426
May15123
Jun10315
Jul9715
Aug16322
Sep19126
Oct24829
Nov23927
Dec10915

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Kyarusozi, 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 13 and lasts for 3.9 months, ending around September 8. The clearest month is July, when the sky is clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy 36% of the time on average.

The cloudier part of the year begins around September 9 and lasts for 2.9 months, ending around December 6. The cloudiest month is October, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 90% 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 13 · 39%Oct 22 · 9%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3565
Feb2971
Mar2476
Apr1585
May2971
Jun3466
Jul3664
Aug3169
Sep2377
Oct1090
Nov1486
Dec3169

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, Kyarusozi 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)
Jan12.07:087:06
Feb12.07:137:12
Mar12.07:087:07
Apr12.06:586:59
May12.06:536:55
Jun12.06:576:59
Jul12.07:027:05
Aug12.07:017:03
Sep12.06:526:52
Oct12.06:436:42
Nov12.06:446:42
Dec12.06:556:53

Sunny days

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

Kyarusozi averages about 3 sunny days a month — counting the days the sky stays clear or mostly clear — with a clear seasonal swing between 0 and 6 days.

The sunnier stretch runs 3.3 months, from around Dec 6 to Mar 16. The sunniest month is January, with roughly 5 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is November, down near 1 sunny days — about 82% fewer than the January peak.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedJan 316 daysNov 20 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan6Gloomy
Feb4Gloomy
Mar3Gloomy
Apr1Gloomy
May4Gloomy
Jun4Gloomy
Jul4Gloomy
Aug3Gloomy
Sep1Gloomy
Oct1Gloomy
Nov1Gloomy
Dec4Gloomy

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

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.0 months, from around March 14 to June 13. 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 13 to March 13, and February is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 53% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecFeb 7 · 60%Apr 21 · 0%muggyhumidcomfortabledrycomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan1537462
Feb1836434
Mar3147013
Apr017128
May037621
Jun118765
Jul328671
Aug113833
Sep04914
Oct00919
Nov018811
Dec222742

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 Kyarusozi is steady company: average speeds sit near 5 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmFeb 9 · 6 km/hNov 5 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan6calm
Feb6calm
Mar6calm
Apr6calm
May6calm
Jun5calm
Jul5calm
Aug5calm
Sep5calm
Oct5calm
Nov5calm
Dec5calm

Best time to visit Kyarusozi

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

Around late February, Kyarusozi 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 Kyarusozi for general outdoor tourist activities run from late May to late July and again from mid December to early March, with a peak score in the first week of January.

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 4 · 6.7

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
Jan6.6good
Feb6.2good
Mar4.9fair
Apr4.0fair
May4.6fair
Jun5.6good
Jul5.8good
Aug4.8fair
Sep4.2fair
Oct3.8fair
Nov4.0fair
Dec5.8good

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 Kyarusozi for hot-weather activities run from late June to mid July and again from mid December to mid March, with a peak score in the first week of February.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationFeb 7 · 6.9

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 Kyarusozi, 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.

Kyarusozi packs about the same all year — highs hold near 28°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, Kyarusozi sees daytime highs around 28°C and nights near 17°C. Pack light clothes and sun protection. Worth having: rain gear. About 9 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Kyarusozi 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 Kyarusozi peaks around March 16 at about 15 (extreme) — sunscreen, a hat and midday shade are essential. It bottoms out near June 22 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 22UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan11Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun10Extreme
Jul10Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct14Extreme
Nov11Extreme
Dec10Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Kyarusozi

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
Apr86.5
May7.55.5
Jun7.55.5
Jul7.55.5
Aug86
Sep86
Oct86.5
Nov7.55.5
Dec7.55.5

Air quality in Kyarusozi 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 Kyarusozi is worst in January — around 48 µg/m³ PM2.5 (poor), about 2.4× the cleanest month (April, 20 µg/m³).

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

0204060JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecPoorModerateJan 2348 µg/m³Apr 2320 µg/m³
PM2.5 (µg/m³)Level
Jan48Poor
Feb48Poor
Mar28Moderate
Apr20Moderate
May20Moderate
Jun27Moderate
Jul31Moderate
Aug27Moderate
Sep25Moderate
Oct22Moderate
Nov25Moderate
Dec36Poor
Almanac & agriculture

Growing season

Chance of a frost-free dayFrost-free year round

Kyarusozi 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. Kyarusozi banks about 4,077 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)
Jan352
Feb344
Mar378
Apr351
May357
Jun333
Jul333
Aug331
Sep321
Oct330
Nov315
Dec331

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.

Kyarusozi receives about 5.5 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 5.1 and 6.0 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 236.0 kWhJul 265.1 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.8Bright
Feb6.0Intense
Mar5.9Bright
Apr5.6Bright
May5.4Bright
Jun5.1Bright
Jul5.1Bright
Aug5.3Bright
Sep5.7Bright
Oct5.5Bright
Nov5.3Bright
Dec5.5Bright

Where is Kyarusozi?

Kyarusozi sits at 0.8°N, 30.5°E, 1,459 m above sea level, in Uganda. The nearest listed city is Katoke, 17 km away.

BuhesiButunduziRwamwanja Refugee Camp

Topography around Kyarusozi

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Kyarusozi has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 163 m around an average of 1,442 m above sea level; within 16 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 965 m; within 80 km, extreme variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 4,109 m.

The land around Kyarusozi is covered by trees (53%) and shrubs (36%) within 3 km, trees (59%) within 16 km, and trees (55%) and grassland (24%) within 80 km.

3 km
163 m
16 km
965 m
80 km
4,109 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandwaterwetland
Nearby: Katoke 17 km · Kyenjojo 20 km · Muhorro 28 km · Fort Portal 32 km · Kagadi 35 km · Buhesi 42 km · Butunduzi 44 km · Rwamwanja Refugee Camp 50 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 Kyarusozi (0.7842°, 30.5311°, elevation 1,459 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).