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Kisumu weather by month

Kisumu runs from about 22°C in January to 24°C in March, with November the wettest month at 181 mm.

warmest month

March

24°C

coolest month

January

22°C

wettest month

November

181 mm

worst air month

July

30 µg/m³

The whole year, month by month.

Monthly climate normals for Kisumu
MonthAvg tempRainSunPM2.5
January22°C154 mm336 h19
February23°C41 mm331 h22
March24°C44 mm363 h18
April22°C126 mm318 h18
May23°C54 mm338 h21
June23°C33 mm337 h25
July22°C76 mm327 h30
August22°C38 mm337 h27
September23°C58 mm329 h24
October23°C83 mm342 h20
November22°C181 mm313 h18
December22°C90 mm345 h19

About 4,016 hours of sun a year. Roughly 97 rainy days a year.

These are long-run climate normals, not a forecast. A given year can sit well outside them. PM2.5 is a global model: near the coast it counts sea salt as fine particulate and reads high against ground stations, sometimes by a factor of two. Use the shape of the year, not the absolute number.

where these numbers come from

  • · Temperature, rainfall and sunshine: ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis climate normals via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0), fetched once and stored.
  • · PM2.5: Copernicus CAMS reanalysis, monthly means. Modelled, not station readings; near coasts CAMS counts sea salt as PM2.5 and reads high.

Last reviewed 2026-05-27. Full method, licences and the list of sources we rejected are on the methodology page.