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Musanze weather by month

Musanze runs from about 17°C in November to 19°C in September, with April the wettest month at 177 mm.

warmest month

September

19°C

coolest month

November

17°C

wettest month

April

177 mm

worst air month

August

34 µg/m³

The whole year, month by month.

Monthly climate normals for Musanze
MonthAvg tempRainSunPM2.5
January18°C100 mm291 h26
February19°C78 mm307 h21
March19°C81 mm346 h16
April18°C177 mm301 h11
May18°C40 mm347 h13
June18°C3 mm354 h19
July19°C8 mm353 h30
August19°C12 mm344 h34
September19°C49 mm333 h24
October18°C105 mm330 h18
November17°C168 mm318 h14
December17°C93 mm332 h18

About 3,956 hours of sun a year. Roughly 92 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.