Climate and average weather in Kyegegwa

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

Best: late May to late August

Over the course of the year, the temperature in Kyegegwa typically varies from 17°C to 30°C, and is rarely below 15°C or above 33°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 Kyegegwa for warm-weather activities are from early January to early February and late May to late August.

Hottest
Feb
30°
Coldest
Nov
17°
Wettest
Oct
134 mm
Driest
Jan
30 mm
Rain / yr
884 mm
183 wet days
Daylight
12.0–12.0 h
shortest–longest
Elevation
1,411 m
0.5°N
Clearest
Jul
68% cloud

Kyegegwa 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 late August.

Temperature through the year

Average highAverage lowShaded bands: 10–90% of days

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

Temperatures in Kyegegwa stay fairly even through the year, without a distinct hot or cool season. The warmest month is February, with an average high of 30°C and low of 18°C; the coolest is November, with an average low of 17°C and high of 26°C.

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

15°20°25°30°35°JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg high (°C)Avg low (°C)
Jan2817
Feb3018
Mar2918
Apr2718
May2717
Jun2717
Jul2817
Aug2717
Sep2717
Oct2617
Nov2617
Dec2717

Average hourly temperature in Kyegegwa

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 30°C, and coldest before dawn in November, near 17°C.

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

Kyegegwa 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
Jan28° / 17°306.7126.0
Feb30° / 18°327.6125.2
Mar29° / 18°7614.8124.8
Apr27° / 18°10021.3124.5
May27° / 17°7918.7125.1
Jun27° / 17°429.9126.2
Jul28° / 17°307.1126.6
Aug27° / 17°7615.1125.6
Sep27° / 17°9920.4124.8
Oct26° / 17°13425.4124.1
Nov26° / 17°12623.2124.4
Dec27° / 17°6213125.9

Chance of rain

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

Kyegegwa gets about 884 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 3.8 months, from around Aug 18 to Dec 10, peaking in October at about 86% chance on a given day. The drier stretch runs the rest of the year, bottoming out around Jul 10.

October is the wettest month by volume, with 134 mm over about 25 wet days; January is the driest, with 30 mm.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdrierwettermostly drysome rainoften wetvery wetOct 31 · 86%Jul 10 · 19%
Rain on a day (%)Rain days
Jan227
Feb278
Mar4815
Apr7021
May6019
Jun3310
Jul247
Aug4915
Sep6820
Oct8125
Nov7723
Dec4213

Monthly rainfall

Over a full year, Kyegegwa collects about 884 mm of rain across 183 wet days — roughly 74 mm in an average month.

It doesn’t fall evenly. October is the wettest month with 134 mm, while January is the driest at just 30 mm. The three wettest months alone bring about 41% of the year’s total.

0255075100125150175JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec303276100794230769913412662
Rainfall (mm)Rain days
Jan307
Feb328
Mar7615
Apr10021
May7919
Jun4210
Jul307
Aug7615
Sep9920
Oct13425
Nov12623
Dec6213

Clouds and sunshine

ClearMostly clearPartly cloudyMostly cloudyOvercast

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

In Kyegegwa, 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 13 and lasts for 4.3 months, ending around September 19. 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 20 and lasts for 2.6 months, ending around December 6. The cloudiest month is April, when it is overcast or mostly cloudy 85% 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 · 39%Oct 27 · 12%mostly clearpartly cloudymostly cloudyovercastcloudierclearercloudier
Clearer (%)Cloudier (%)
Jan3268
Feb2971
Mar2476
Apr1585
May3070
Jun3466
Jul3664
Aug3565
Sep2971
Oct1585
Nov1783
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, Kyegegwa 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)
Jan12.07:067:04
Feb12.07:117:10
Mar12.07:067:05
Apr12.06:566:56
May12.06:516:53
Jun12.06:556:57
Jul12.07:017:02
Aug12.06:597:00
Sep12.06:506:50
Oct12.06:416:41
Nov12.06:426:40
Dec12.06:536:51

Sunny days

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

Kyegegwa 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 15. The sunniest month is February, with roughly 4 sunny days (gloomy).

The greyest month is November, down near 1 sunny days — about 76% fewer than the February peak.

0510JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecsunniergreyersunniergloomymixedFeb 16 daysNov 40 days
Sunny daysSky
Jan4Gloomy
Feb4Gloomy
Mar3Gloomy
Apr1Gloomy
May4Gloomy
Jun3Gloomy
Jul3Gloomy
Aug3Gloomy
Sep2Gloomy
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 Kyegegwa, how humid it feels changes dramatically over the year.

The more humid part of the year lasts 3.7 months, from around August 25 to December 16. The muggiest month is October, when the air feels humid, muggy or worse about 99% of the time.

The most comfortable stretch runs from around June 5 to August 24, and July is the most comfortable month — the air is dry or comfortable 70% of the time.

0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%80%90%100%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJul 13 · 76%Oct 29 · 0%muggyhumidcomfortabledryhumidcomfortablehumid
Dry (%)Comfortable (%)Humid (%)Muggy (%)
Jan2136412
Feb2140372
Mar422686
Apr038017
May067716
Jun738532
Jul1951300
Aug631630
Sep19891
Oct01954
Nov02927
Dec523702

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 Kyegegwa is steady company: average speeds sit near 7 km/hcalm — in every month of the year, with no meaningful windy or calm season.

051015JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDeccalmlight breezeJul 8 · 8 km/hNov 11 · 5 km/h
Wind speed (km/h)Feels
Jan7calm
Feb7calm
Mar6calm
Apr7calm
May7calm
Jun8calm
Jul8calm
Aug7calm
Sep6calm
Oct6calm
Nov5calm
Dec6calm

Best time to visit Kyegegwa

TravelBeach/poolTemperatureCloudsPrecipitation

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

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

0246810JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebest timetravel scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJul 11 · 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
Jan6.0good
Feb5.2fair
Mar4.9fair
Apr4.5fair
May5.1fair
Jun6.2good
Jul6.5good
Aug5.6good
Sep4.8fair
Oct4.2fair
Nov4.4fair
Dec5.9good

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 Kyegegwa for hot-weather activities run from late May to mid August and again from mid December to mid March, with a peak score in the last week of January.

024681012JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecbest timebest timebeach/pool scoretemperaturecloudsprecipitationJan 30 · 7.3

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 Kyegegwa, 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.

Kyegegwa packs about the same all year — highs hold near 30°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, Kyegegwa sees daytime highs around 30°C and nights near 18°C. Pack light clothes. Worth having: sun protection. About 8 days see rain.

UV index (midday) in Kyegegwa 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 Kyegegwa peaks around March 16 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 16UV 15Jun 19UV 10
UV index (midday)Level
Jan12Extreme
Feb14Extreme
Mar15Extreme
Apr14Extreme
May12Extreme
Jun10Extreme
Jul11Extreme
Aug12Extreme
Sep13Extreme
Oct14Extreme
Nov12Extreme
Dec10Extreme

Average hourly UV index in Kyegegwa

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 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)
Jan7.56
Feb86.5
Mar8.56.5
Apr86.5
May7.55.5
Jun7.55.5
Jul7.55.5
Aug86
Sep86
Oct86
Nov7.55.5
Dec7.55

Air quality in Kyegegwa 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 Kyegegwa 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

Kyegegwa 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. Kyegegwa banks about 4,468 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)
Jan399
Feb385
Mar413
Apr371
May371
Jun363
Jul378
Aug372
Sep352
Oct359
Nov340
Dec365

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.

Kyegegwa receives about 5.4 kWh/m² a day of solar energy — bright — and it stays remarkably steady, holding between 4.9 and 5.8 kWh/m² all year. For solar panels, output here is a flat line, not a seasonal wave.

01234567JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecdimmoderatebrightintenseFeb 195.8 kWhJul 184.9 kWh
Solar energy (kWh/m²)Level
Jan5.6Bright
Feb5.8Bright
Mar5.7Bright
Apr5.3Bright
May5.2Bright
Jun5.0Bright
Jul5.0Bright
Aug5.3Bright
Sep5.6Bright
Oct5.4Bright
Nov5.2Bright
Dec5.4Bright

Where is Kyegegwa?

Kyegegwa sits at 0.5°N, 31.0°E, 1,411 m above sea level, in Uganda. The nearest listed city is Kyaka II Refugee Camp, 17 km away.

MubendeKakumiroRwamwanja Refugee CampKyenjojoKatoke

Topography around Kyegegwa

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

Within 3 km, the terrain around Kyegegwa has only modest variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 163 m around an average of 1,358 m above sea level; within 16 km, significant variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 323 m; within 80 km, large variations in elevation — a maximum elevation change of 1,180 m.

The land around Kyegegwa is covered by trees (53%) and grassland (23%) within 3 km, trees (50%) and grassland (22%) within 16 km, and trees (41%) and grassland (36%) within 80 km.

3 km
163 m
16 km
323 m
80 km
1,180 m
treesshrubsgrasslandcroplandartificial surfaces
Nearby: Kyaka II Refugee Camp 17 km · Butunduzi 22 km · Kasambya 23 km · Mubende 40 km · Kakumiro 44 km · Rwamwanja Refugee Camp 46 km · Kyenjojo 49 km · Katoke 49 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 Kyegegwa (0.5022°, 31.0414°, elevation 1,411 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).