Satellite: Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH · CC BY 4.0 · Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016
Climate guideThirty-year normals for Butare
Butare climate by month
Tropical savanna · AwBest Jun–Aug
Annual mean19°day and night
Seasonal swing2°warmest vs coolest
Precipitation1,038 mm218 wet days a year
2.60° S, 29.74° EElevation 1,769 mUTC+2 · Central Africa Time
When to goButare · weather score
Best timeJun–Aug
October: high / low24° / 14°
iSummary
What the weather is like
Butare has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw): .
The warmest month is September, when afternoons average 25° and nights 14°. May is the coolest month, with highs of 23° and lows of 14°. The difference between the warmest and the coolest month is about 2°, a small seasonal swing typical of places tempered by the sea.
About 1,038 mm of precipitation falls in an average year. November is the wettest month (137 mm, 27 wet days) and July the driest (11 mm, 5 wet days). Cloud cover ranges from 36% in July to 64% in November.
Compared with Kigali, the capital, Butare is 0.9° cooler on a September afternoon and receives less precipitation over the year.
Year in figures
- Hottest afternoons
- 25° · September
- Coldest nights
- 13° · July
- Wettest month
- November
- Driest month
- July
- Clearest skies
- July · 36% cloud
- Longest day
- 12 h 16 min
- Shortest day
- 11 h 58 min
iiCharts
Twelve months at a glance
Temperature and precipitation
Daily high/low range bars, monthly precipitation columnsTemperature curve
Average high, lowDaylight
Hours between sunrise and sunset on the 15th of each monthiiiData table
Climate normals month by month
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Average high | 24° | 25° | 24° | 23° | 23° | 23° | 24° | 25° | 25° | 24° | 23° | 23° |
| Average low | 13° | 14° | 14° | 14° | 14° | 13° | 13° | 14° | 14° | 14° | 13° | 13° |
| Precipitation | 95 mm | 98 mm | 127 mm | 159 mm | 104 mm | 17 mm | 11 mm | 29 mm | 61 mm | 112 mm | 137 mm | 88 mm |
| Wet days (≥1 mm) | 20.6 | 17.4 | 24.9 | 25.9 | 20.6 | 6.3 | 4.7 | 9.4 | 16.2 | 22.1 | 26.5 | 23.6 |
| Cloud cover | 55% | 56% | 60% | 62% | 50% | 39% | 36% | 41% | 46% | 59% | 64% | 58% |
| Daylight | 12h 15 | 12h 12 | 12h 07 | 12h 03 | 12h 00 | 11h 58 | 11h 59 | 12h 02 | 12h 06 | 12h 10 | 12h 14 | 12h 16 |
| Month score | 57 | 56 | 54 | 54 | 59 | 81 | 86 | 73 | 60 | 55 | 53 | 55 |
ivMonth by month
Butare in every month
January57
24° / 13°
95 mm · 20.6 wet days
February56
25° / 14°
98 mm · 17.4 wet days
March54
24° / 14°
127 mm · 24.9 wet days
April54
23° / 14°
159 mm · 25.9 wet days
May59
23° / 14°
104 mm · 20.6 wet days
June81
23° / 13°
17 mm · 6.3 wet days
July86
24° / 13°
11 mm · 4.7 wet days
August73
25° / 14°
29 mm · 9.4 wet days
September60
25° / 14°
61 mm · 16.2 wet days
October55
24° / 14°
112 mm · 22.1 wet days
November53
23° / 13°
137 mm · 26.5 wet days
December55
23° / 13°
88 mm · 23.6 wet days