Kolwezi
City in DR Congo: population, location, elevation, climate and landmarks.
Kamoto Mine - panoramio: Martin Tuchscherer, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
Overview
Kolwezi is a city in DR Congo, in Lualaba. About 790,248 people live in the city proper, making it the 7th largest city of DR Congo in our atlas.
It lies at 10.71° S, 25.47° E, about 1,485 m (4,872 ft) above sea level, and keeps time on the Africa/Lubumbashi time zone. It sits inside the tropics.
Location
Red dot: Kolwezi. Green dots: other major cities of DR Congo. Map data: Natural Earth.
Climate
Kolwezi has a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw). The warmest month is usually Sep, with average highs near 32°C (89°F); the coolest nights come in Jul at about 10°C (51°F). Around 1,150 mm (45 in) of rain and snow falls in a typical year, most of it in Dec.
Bars: average daily high and low (°C) for each month; blue columns and figures: average precipitation (mm). Gridded 2001-2025 averages from NASA POWER, so mountain and coastal spots can differ from local station records.
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- Likasi · 142 km
- Lubumbashi · 243 km
- Mbuji-Mayi · 548 km
- Kananga · 630 km
- Tshikapa · 698 km
- Uvira · 906 km
- Kikwit · 961 km
- Bukavu · 984 km
- Population, coordinates, elevation, time zone: GeoNames 922773 (CC BY 4.0)
- Wikidata Q271404 (CC0)
- Climate: NASA POWER 2001-2025 climatology
Text written by Geographical Effect from these sources.
- Kamoto Mine - panoramio: Martin Tuchscherer, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)