1Kigali is the 110th warmest of 224 capitals by annual mean. Source: Capitals ranking · monthly means𝕏
2August is the hottest month here, averaging 82.9°F. Source: Monthly means · GHCN-Daily𝕏
3The highest reading in the archive is 104.0°F, on 23 February 2005, and it has stood for 20 years. Source: GHCN-Daily𝕏
Did you knowRecords here begin in 1973 at Kigali, and the archive holds 11,506 daily values from it, counting each day's maximum and minimum separately.
Did you knowThe station files about 3 readings a day, via WMO SYNOP bulletins.
Did you knowThe thermometer sits 1,491 m above sea level, the 3rd highest of 3 stations we hold in Rwanda.
Did you knowReadings are recorded in Celsius. Any Fahrenheit figure on this page is a conversion, not a separate measurement.
Capitals with a similar climate
The capitals immediately warmer and cooler than Kigali by annual mean.
August is the warmest month at Kigali, averaging a daily high of 82.9°F. That is an average of every August day in the archive, not a record: the highest single reading is below.
How cold does it get in Kigali?+−
April is the coolest month, averaging a daily high of 79.3°F. The gap between the warmest and coolest month is 35.6°F, which is what the ranking of capitals by annual swing is built on.
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Kigali?+−
104.0°F, on 23 February 2005, in the record held for Kigali. That is the highest daily maximum in the archive for this station, not a national record and not an official figure: those are set by national meteorological services.
What is the lowest temperature ever recorded in Kigali?+−
48.4°F, on 12 July 2016, in the same archive. Like the high, it is the lowest daily minimum this station has recorded rather than an official national figure.
What is the weather in Kigali right now?
Sources and checks for this page
Live readings come from WMO SYNOP bulletins at Kigali. Monthly means and every record on this page are computed from Meteostat and its data providers observations stored per station, per year, per month, and the capital list is GeoNames, CC BY 4.0. Nothing here is modelled, interpolated or estimated, and a month the archive never covered is left out rather than filled in. See how this is built.
3.6°F between August and April, the 207th widest swing among the 224 capitals ranked here. The big figure on each card is the average high for that month across the whole record; the two lines beneath it are the hottest and coldest days ever recorded in it.
Across 12 Augusts, 2005 to 2025, this station's August average has fallen about 1.8° per decade. A fit through this station's own record, not a climate finding. Source: Meteostat and its data providers, per station per year per month
📅 On this day here · 6 OctoberRecord for the date: 89.8°F, in 2006. Today reached 74.1°F, 15.7°F short.
4Its best placing worldwide is 359th of 7,471 reporting stations, across the 12 days of rankings held so far. Source: Our own rankings · 12 day window𝕏
52 of the last 7 days here passed 30°C. Source: Our own daily record𝕏
1April is the coolest month, averaging 79.3°F. Source: Monthly means · GHCN-Daily𝕏
2The year swings 3.6°F between its warmest and coolest months, the 207th widest of 224 capitals. Source: Capitals ranking · monthly means𝕏
3The widest single day we have recorded here spanned 21.6°F, on 30 September 2026. Source: Our own daily record𝕏
4It has not dropped below freezing on any of the last 7 days. Source: Our own daily record𝕏
5Within Rwanda its best placing is 1st of 2 stations, over the 12 days of rankings held. Source: Our own rankings · 12 day window𝕏
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66.9°F at Kigali, measured at 14:00 local on Tuesday, 6 October 2026. This is the live reading from the station this page reads, after our quality checks. It is an observation rather than a forecast: it says what the weather IS, not what it will be.
When did temperature records begin in Kigali?+−
The archive held here for Kigali, Rwanda starts in 1973, which is 52 years of record, and 11,506 stored daily values, each one a maximum or a minimum.
Which station measures Kigali's temperature?+−
Kigali (HRYR), 1,491 m above sea level. Every figure on this page comes from that one station rather than from a city-wide average, so it is a measurement at a known place rather than an estimate for an area.
How is the temperature measured and checked?+−
Readings arrive from WMO SYNOP bulletins and are quality controlled before they appear: a value outside a plausible range, or one that jumps further than air can move in the time between readings, is rejected rather than published. Every figure shows its source and the time it was observed.
Are there gaps in Kigali's record?+−
The record runs from 1973 to 2025, and it is not equally deep across the year: the thinnest of the 12 months has 10 years of readings behind its average and the fullest has 13. Gaps are left as gaps: a month the archive never covered is omitted rather than filled in, which is why some months on this page carry no record.
Is Kigali getting hotter?+−
In its hottest month it has. Across 12 Augusts between 2005 and 2025, the average August high at Kigali has fallen about 1.8°F per decade. That is a straight-line fit through this one station's record: it is not corrected for a station that moved or changed instrument, and it is a description of the readings rather than a climate attribution.
How does Kigali compare with other capitals?+−
It is the 110th warmest of the 224 capital cities with a full twelve months of record here, ranked on annual mean rather than on any single day, and 207th by the width of its annual swing. Avarua, Flying Fish Cove, Nuku‘alofa sit closest to it on that ranking.
When is Kigali hottest?+−
August, averaging 82.9°F across the record, with April the coolest at 79.3°F. That is a swing of 3.6°F across the year.
Commentary: Nature appears to have set the thermostat correctly.