Not currently reporting
This station has not reported a qualifying observation since Thu 22 Oct 2026. This site retains what it recorded: 11 days of highs and lows from 16 readings, which stays on this page. A separate archive of daily values from 1980 is linked under data sources.
Our synoptic decoder reads air temperature only, so this station reports no dew point, wind or pressure here.
Every year on record
NOAA GHCN-DailyNot enough history to draw a trend for this station yet.
The record book, month by month
Highest and lowest ever recorded here · with the day it happenedJan
33.5°
Wed 19 Jan 1983
19.8°
Tue 5 Jan 1982
Feb
34.5°
Thu 25 Feb 1999
18.4°
Thu 25 Feb 1999
Mar
32.8°
Thu 3 Mar 1983
19.2°
Wed 3 Mar 1982
Apr
31.0°
Sat 10 Apr 1982
18.5°
Wed 18 Apr 1990
May
34.0°
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Between its coldest night and its hottest day, this place has swung 24.5°C.
From our dataRecord high 34.5°C against record low 10.0°C. - 2
At 08:00 it was 23.5°C. By 08:00 it was 23.5°C. The night never stood a chance.
From our dataToday so far at this station, in local time.
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All-time record high
34.5°C
- Date
- Thursday, 25 February 1999
- Time of day
- Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
- Location
- Kananga, Congo (DRC)
- Position
- 5.88°S 22.42°E · 654 m
The highest in a daily archive that holds only 353 daily readings between 1980 and 2012. Source: GHCN-Daily, 1980 to 2012.
All-time record low
10.0°C
- Date
- Monday, 31 May 1993
- Time of day
- Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
- Location
- Kananga, Congo (DRC)
- Position
- 5.88°S 22.42°E · 654 m
The lowest in a daily archive that holds only 353 daily readings between 1980 and 2012. Source: GHCN-Daily, 1980 to 2012.
By year, from our own record
2026
Highest 31.5°C, lowest 20.5°C, mean 24.9°C. 11 days recorded from 16 readings.
By month, from our own record
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Days | Readings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | 31.5°C | 21.5°C | 25.5°C | 9 | 13 |
| September 2026 | 23.5°C | 20.5°C | - | 2 | 3 |
Means are of the readings we stored, weighted by how often this station reported, so they are not daily averages and not climate normals.
Highest and lowest we have recorded here
Highest
31.5°C
Thu 15 Oct 2026 at 14:00 local
Lowest
20.5°C
Wed 23 Sep 2026 at 08:00 local
These are not official records. They are the highest and lowest readings this site has stored for Kananga since September 2026, across 11 days we hold a reading for. Official climatological records are adjudicated by national meteorological services and by the WMO.
Kananga (FZUA) is a weather station in Congo (DRC), 654 m above sea level, about 1 km from Kananga.
We have kept a daily record here for 11 of the 46 days since 23 September 2026, from 16 observations.
Recent temperature history
The same record at three widths, picking up where the last 24 hours above leaves off. Each period is summarised from the grain that suits it, so nothing here is one reading repeated thousands of times into the page.
What stands out here
- Its best placing so far is 435th hottest of the 9,648 stations reporting worldwide.
Recent highlights
- and the 1 days before it
Its low of 22.5°C was the lowest of the 6 stations we hold in Congo (DRC), on each of 2 days running.
Its high of 31.5°C was the highest of the 7 stations we hold in Congo (DRC).
Recent days
Readings on 11 of the last 30 days. Typically 1 reading a day.
| Day | High | At | Low | At |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 | 23.5°C | 06:00 UTC | 23.5°C | 06:00 UTC |
| 2026-10-21 | 29.5°C | 12:00 UTC | 29.5°C | 12:00 UTC |
| 2026-10-20 | 24.0°C | 06:00 UTC | 24.0°C | 06:00 UTC |
| 2026-10-19 | 27.5°C | 12:00 UTC |
Nearby, and the opposite
| Station | Away | Height | High | Low | vs here |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mbuji-Mayi ArptCongo - Kinshasa | 130.4 km | none | none | ||
| Mbuji-MayiCongo (DRC) | 136.5 km | none | none | ||
| KikwitCongo (DRC) | 411.7 km |
What we have stored, day by day
We have readings for 11 of the 46 days since we started storing this station on 23 September 2026.
Tracking history
Its last day with a reading was Thu 22 Oct 2026. Its longest unbroken run is 4 days.
- First reading stored20.5°C on our first day here
- First day as the coldest we hold in its country23.5°C
- First day as the hottest we hold in its country31.5°C
Where this station is
This station lies about 700 km south of the equator. It lies within the tropics.
Where Kananga is
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5.88°S 22.42°E
Kananga
Ground · satellite
Land surface temperature for 2026-11-06, from NASA GIBS. This is the temperature of the ground seen from orbit, not the air, and it is never ranked against air readings. Cloud hides the ground, so gaps are unread rather than guessed.
View more on Google Maps5.8833°S, 22.4167°E
Kananga, answered from the data
How hot does it get in Kananga?
The warmest month on record here is February, when the highest reading has reached 34.5°C (94.1°F) on Thursday, 25 February 1999.
NOAA GHCN-Daily, highest reading recorded in each month
How cold does it get in Kananga?
The coldest month on record here is May, when the lowest reading has fallen to 10.0°C (50.0°F) on Monday, 31 May 1993.
NOAA GHCN-Daily, lowest reading recorded in each month
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Kananga?
34.5°C (94.1°F) on Thursday, 25 February 1999. That is the highest in the daily record we hold for this station, which holds only 353 daily readings between 1980 and 2012. It is not an officially certified record unless a meteorological authority has recognised it.
NOAA GHCN-Daily
What is the lowest temperature ever recorded in Kananga?
10.0°C (50.0°F) on Monday, 31 May 1993. That is the lowest in the daily record we hold, which holds only 353 daily readings between 1980 and 2012.
NOAA GHCN-Daily
Data sources for this page
Readings here arrive through NOAA WMO SYNOP bulletins. SYNOP is the surface synoptic report that national weather services file to the WMO, typically at the main hours of 00, 06, 12 and 18 UTC and often three hourly between them. It covers places with no airport, which is why the coldest readings on Earth arrive this way.
| Figure | Source | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Latest reading, today so far | NOAA Aviation Weather Center (METAR) and NOAA NWS WMO bulletins (SYNOP) | Measured, station |
| All-time, monthly and on-this-day records | NOAA NCEI Global Historical Climatology Network daily (GHCN-Daily), 1980 to 2012 at this site and its predecessors, and our own observations, 11 days, which hold the record shown above | Measured, station |
| Nearby stations and distances | Computed from station positions in our own database | Calculated |
How these readings are checked
Every reading on this page has passed the checks below. A reading that fails any of them is stored as refused and can never be ranked, shown as a record, or counted in a daily high or low.
26 readings from this station have been refused in the last 14 days.
- The reading is recent enough for its network: 26
- 01
Has a real position
A reading with no usable latitude and longitude is discarded. It cannot be ranked, mapped, or compared with its neighbours, and a temperature with no place is not an answer to which place is hottest.
- 02
Position is not a placeholder
Some feeds fill an unknown position with a stand-in value such as 99.99 degrees or an elevation of 9999 m. Those are not coordinates. They are caught separately from a missing position because a station placed at a fake point has no neighbours, so the neighbour check below can never see anything wrong with it.
- 03
The bulletin itself is current
SYNOP arrives as files that are only re-read when they change. A file that has stopped being updated is set aside whole, before any reading inside it is considered.
- 04
The reading is recent enough for its network
Different networks get different windows, because they report at different rates: 2 hours for METAR, which transmits continuously, and 9 hours for SYNOP, which reports at 00, 06, 12 and 18 UTC. A single rule would have discarded the entire synoptic network, including every station in Antarctica.