Not currently reporting
This station has not reported a qualifying observation since Tue 27 Oct 2026. This site retains what it recorded: 36 days of highs and lows from 186 readings, which stays on this page. A separate archive of daily values from 1973 is linked under data sources.
Every year on record
NOAA GHCN-DailyNot enough history to draw a trend for this station yet.
The record book, month by month
The highest and lowest here · with the day it happenedJan
17.3°
Mon 14 Jan 2013
16.0°
Sun 16 Jan 2022
Feb
28.6°
Fri 13 Feb 1987
16.5°
Mon 21 Feb 2022
Mar
18.4°
Wed 14 Mar 2012
16.5°
Fri 30 Mar 2012
Apr
15.0°
Sat 27 Apr 1974
12.5°
Sat 14 Apr 2012
May
26.0°
Record high
19.5°C
Wed 7 Nov 2018
Record low
19.5°C
Wed 7 Nov 2018
Average high
19.5°C
all years on record
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Between its coldest night and its hottest day, this place has swung 26.5°C.
From our dataRecord high 32.5°C against record low 6.0°C. - 2
At 07:00 it was 33.0°C. By 09:00 it was 28.0°C. The heat did not hold.
From our dataToday so far at this station, in local time.
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Today's high beats the record for 7 November
Today’s high 33.0°C against 19.5°C in 2018. A reading that beats it is flagged here automatically, once a second cycle confirms it.
Highest we have recorded
36.0°C
- Date
- Saturday, 24 October 2026
- Time of day
- 15:00 local
- Location
- Lubumbashi Intl, Congo - Kinshasa
- Position
- 11.59°S 27.53°E · 1309 m
The highest this site has recorded here. Source: Our own observations, 36 days.
All-time record low
6.0°C
- Date
- Wednesday, 28 June 2006
- Time of day
- Not recorded. The daily archive stores the day, not the hour.
- Location
- Lubumbashi Intl, Congo - Kinshasa
- Position
- 11.59°S 27.53°E · 1309 m
The lowest in a daily archive that holds only 368 daily readings between 1973 and 2025. Source: GHCN-Daily, 1973 to 2025.
By year, from our own record
2026
Highest 36.0°C, lowest 16.0°C, mean 27.6°C. 36 days recorded from 186 readings.
By month, from our own record
| Month | High | Low | Mean | Days | Readings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | 36.0°C | 16.0°C | 27.6°C | 27 | 142 |
| September 2026 | 34.0°C | 17.0°C | 27.4°C | 8 of 9 | 44 |
Means are of the readings we stored, weighted by how often this station reported, so they are not daily averages and not climate normals. Some days were recorded before we began counting observations and contribute their high and low but not the mean.
Highest and lowest we have recorded here
Highest
36.0°C
Sat 24 Oct 2026 at 15:00 local
Lowest
16.0°C
Sat 3 Oct 2026 at 08:00 local
These are not official records. They are the highest and lowest readings this site has stored for Lubumbashi Intl since September 2026, across 36 days we hold a reading for. Official climatological records are adjudicated by national meteorological services and by the WMO.
Lubumbashi Intl (FZQA) is a weather station in Congo (DRC), 1,309 m above sea level, about 9 km from Lubumbashi.
We have kept a daily record here for 36 of the 47 days since 22 September 2026. We have stored 186 observations across the 35 of those days for which we also recorded a count.
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 23rd hottest of the 9,589 stations reporting worldwide. It has reached the world's hottest 100 on 7 days.
Recent highlights
Reached 36.0°C, the highest we have recorded here, beating 35.0°C on Tue 20 Oct 2026.
Entered the hundred hottest reporting stations on Earth, reaching 23rd of 8,673.
Its high of 33.0°C was the highest of the 5 stations we hold in Congo (DRC).
Its low of 21.0°C was the lowest of the 5 stations we hold in Congo (DRC).
Reached 34.0°C, its highest of October, beating 33.0°C on Wed 14 Oct 2026.
Recent days
A reading on every one of the last 30 days. Typically 6 readings a day.
| Day | High | At | Low | At |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-27 | 33.0°C | 05:00 UTC | 28.0°C | 07:00 UTC |
| 2026-10-26 | 33.0°C | 12:00 UTC | 23.0°C | 06:00 UTC |
| 2026-10-25 | 33.0°C | 14:00 UTC | 24.0°C | 06:00 UTC |
| 2026-10-24 | 36.0°C | 13:00 UTC |
Nearby, and the opposite
| Station | Away | Height | High | Low | vs here |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lubumbashi-LuanoCongo (DRC) | 9.7 km | none | none | ||
| KafirondaZambia | 128.5 km | none | none | ||
| SolweziZambia | 141 km |
What we have stored, day by day
We have readings for 36 of the 47 days since we started storing this station on 22 September 2026.
Tracking history
Its last day with a reading was Tue 27 Oct 2026.
- First reading stored28.0°C on our first day here
- First day as the coldest we hold in its country20.0°C
- 100 readings storedfired late: 1 earlier day(s) carry no reading count
- First day as the hottest we hold in its country33.0°C
- First time in the hundred hottest reporting stations90 of 5,272
- 30 days reporting without a gap
Where this station is
This station lies about 1,300 km south of the equator. It lies within the tropics.
Where Lubumbashi Intl is
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11.59°S 27.53°E
Lubumbashi Intl
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 Maps11.5920°S, 27.5300°E
Lubumbashi Intl, answered from the data
How hot does it get in Lubumbashi Intl?
The warmest month on record here is October, when the highest reading has reached 36.0°C (96.8°F) on Saturday, 24 October 2026.
NOAA GHCN-Daily, highest reading recorded in each month
How cold does it get in Lubumbashi Intl?
The coldest month on record here is June, when the lowest reading has fallen to 6.0°C (42.8°F) on Wednesday, 28 June 2006.
NOAA GHCN-Daily, lowest reading recorded in each month
What is the highest temperature ever recorded in Lubumbashi Intl?
36.0°C (96.8°F) on Saturday, 24 October 2026. That is the highest this site has recorded at this station. It is not an officially certified record unless a meteorological authority has recognised it.
Our own observations
What is the lowest temperature ever recorded in Lubumbashi Intl?
6.0°C (42.8°F) on Wednesday, 28 June 2006. That is the lowest in the daily record we hold, which holds only 368 daily readings between 1973 and 2025.
NOAA GHCN-Daily
Data sources for this page
Readings here arrive through NOAA METAR. METAR is the routine aerodrome weather report, issued for aviation, typically every 30 or 60 minutes and more often when conditions change. It updates far more frequently than a synoptic report, which is why these pages have a usable chart.
| 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), 1973 to 2025 at this site and its predecessors, and our own observations, 36 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.
No reading from this station has been refused in the last 14 days.
- 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.
- 05
Inside the range of measured temperature