Frost dates for Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Frost is rare here. In 29 years of a weather model’s daily lows, not one night reached freezing, so the growing season runs all year.
- Growing season
- All year
- Hardiness zone nearby
- 11b, estimated from the weather model
Where these numbers come from
Modeled, not measured. No weather station stands behind these dates. They come from ERA5, a reconstruction of the world’s weather from 1991 to 2020 made by ECMWF, Europe’s medium-range weather forecasting agency, for the EU’s Copernicus program, and read here through Open-Meteo. They are the model’s daily lows for the point at -11.75, 27.25, 26 km (16 miles) from the center of Lubumbashi. A frost here means a low at or below 0 °C (32 °F).
A weather model sees the land in squares about 25 km (16 miles) across, so it can miss what sets one garden apart from the next: a frost hollow, a hillside, a lakeshore, a city’s own warmth. The Milpa planner reads these same numbers for a garden here and grades them A good hunch.
Cold air also pools in low ground on the clear, still nights when frost happens, so a hollow can freeze while a slope a hundred meters away does not. No table can know that about your garden. Your own logged frosts eventually can.
Weather data by Open-Meteo.com, under CC BY 4.0. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information, 2026.
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Nearby cities
The nearest cities with a frost page here, and how their last-frost dates compare.
- Lusaka, Zambia, frost is rare
- Mbuji-Mayi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, frost is rare
- Harare, Zimbabwe, frost is rare
- Huambo, Angola, frost is rare
- Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, frost is rare
- Kampala, Uganda, frost is rare
Other cities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, frost is rare
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