Lubumbashi weather by month & the best time to visit
🇨🇩 Congo - Kinshasa · major city break · humid subtropical climate
The best time to visit Lubumbashi is May — its sunniest month (Sunshine Score 96/100), with June and July close behind. Lubumbashi averages about 2,978 hours of sunshine a year. Daytime highs around 25°C / 77°F and roughly 4 mm of rain in May.
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- Sun hours / year
- 2,978
- Sunniest month
- May
- Peak score
- 96/100
- Rain / year
- 1,122 mm
- Midday UV at peak
- 11 (extreme)
- Population
- 2.2M
- Elevation
- 1,297 m
When is the best time to visit Lubumbashi?
For sunshine, the best time to visit Lubumbashi is May, then June and July. The dullest month is January (69/100, 252 mm of rain). The full month-by-month picture is in the table below.
How sunny is Lubumbashi?
Lubumbashi gets a lot of sun: around 2,978 hours a year. May (96/100) is noticeably better than January (69). Lubumbashi is the sunniest of the 20 destinations tracked in Congo - Kinshasa. Rain is strongly seasonal here: roughly 64% of the year's 1,122 mm falls in the three months around January.
Sunshine Score by month
| Month | Score | Day high | Night low | Rain | UV |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January | 69 | 25° / 77°F | 17° / 63°F | 252 mm | 10 |
| February | 69 | 25° / 77°F | 17° / 63°F | 200 mm | 11 |
| March | 69 | 25° / 77°F | 16° / 61°F | 176 mm | 11 |
| April | 86 | 25° / 77°F | 14° / 57°F | 56 mm | 11 |
| May | 96 | 25° / 77°F | 11° / 52°F | 4 mm | 10 |
| June | 96 | 24° / 75°F | 9° / 48°F | 1 mm | 9 |
| July | 96 | 25° / 77°F | 8° / 46°F | 1 mm | 9 |
| August | 96 | 28° / 82°F | 10° / 50°F | 1 mm | 9 |
| September | 96 | 32° / 90°F | 14° / 57°F | 3 mm | 10 |
| October | 82 | 33° / 91°F | 18° / 64°F | 29 mm | 11 |
| November | 73 | 29° / 84°F | 18° / 64°F | 131 mm | 11 |
| December | 69 | 26° / 79°F | 17° / 63°F | 268 mm | 10 |
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Nearby places for sunshine
- Lusaka Zambia · 428 km · best in Jun · 3,066 h sun/yr
- Harare Zimbabwe · 802 km · best in Aug · 3,184 h sun/yr
- Kigali Rwanda · 1,108 km · best in Jul · 2,191 h sun/yr
- Dar es Salaam Tanzania · 1,384 km · best in Jul · 2,837 h sun/yr
- Arusha Tanzania · 1,389 km · best in Jul · 2,565 h sun/yr
- Entebbe Uganda · 1,403 km · best in Jul · 2,497 h sun/yr
Nearest destinations
- Solwesi Zambia · 142 km · 2,948 h sun/yr · best in May
- Ndola Zambia · 186 km · 3,023 h sun/yr · best in Jun
- Kolwezi Congo - Kinshasa · 239 km · 2,691 h sun/yr · best in Jun
- Kasama Zambia · 421 km · 3,082 h sun/yr · best in Jun
- Kamina Congo - Kinshasa · 423 km · 2,468 h sun/yr · best in Jun
Head-to-head
How Lubumbashi compares month by month: Lubumbashi vs Lusaka · Lubumbashi vs Harare · Lubumbashi vs Kigali · all comparisons
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