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Weather extremes
How extreme does Kigali's weather get?
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest days Kigali has recorded — the outer limits of what its weather can do, and how far they sit beyond a normal day.
The four kinds of extreme
The hottest, coldest, wettest and snowiest single days Kigali has recorded — each shown against what a normal day that time of year looks like.
That is about 21°F hotter than a normal February afternoon in Kigali (typical high near 83°F).
The three most extreme on record
About 25°F colder than a normal December night in Kigali (typical low near 62°F).
The three most extreme on record
The three most extreme on record
How hot and cold it gets, month by month
The shaded band is the normal range of daily temperatures for each month. The dots show the most extreme it has ever been — so you can see how far beyond a normal day the records really sit.
Kigali's record heat sits well above even a hot day for the season — February's 104°F is about 21°F beyond a normal hot afternoon. Its record cold is just as far below a normal winter night — the dots mark how rare each extreme really is.
In plain terms
Methodology & sources
Temperature & precipitation — modelled for this location from ERA5-Land reanalysis, a ~9 km global grid, because no long-record weather station is close enough to use.