Weather in Kakamega in February

A good month. February is a solid month to be in Kakamega. Highs average 29.4 °C, lows 15.4 °C, and rain falls on 8 days — nothing in the month is working against you.

February ranks 3 of 12 in Kakamega. Only January scores clearly higher, and the difference is small enough to be settled by price rather than weather.

Rain on 8 days, 1 of them heavy. Enough to need a plan B, not enough to need a plan around it. Pack for 29.4 °C days and 15.4 °C nights; the spread matters more here than any single number.

What the averages hide

Averages flatten a month, and this one hides a few things: 11 days top 30 °C — hot spells arrive, but they break. Across the twenty years measured, the hottest February day reached 35.5 °C and the coldest night fell to 11.4 °C, and the wettest single day dropped 36 mm — roughly 73% of the month's rain in one day.

This is the volatile part. February rainfall has ranged from 14 mm to 163 mm across the twenty years measured — a 149 mm spread around an average of 49 mm. The average is real but almost no individual February looks like it, so treat the figure as the middle of a wide range rather than a forecast.

Wind is light at 9.9 km/h, so the temperature on the page is close to the temperature on your skin, and humidity is unremarkable at 61%.

How February sits in the year

Temperatures hold steady either side: 27.4 °C in January, 29.4 here, 29.7 in March. Nothing about the timing within the month matters much. Rain is the thing that moves: March brings 7 days more of it, so the earlier half of a flexible trip is the safer half.

Daylight in February

Kakamega sits close enough to the equator that daylight barely moves all year — 12.1 hours in February, against a range of just 0 hours across the whole calendar. Sunrise and sunset land at roughly the same time whenever you come.

An inland climate

Despite being inland, the year stays fairly even: 14.9 °C between the year's warmest afternoons and coldest nights. At 1563 m, altitude is doing as much work here as latitude: thinner air means fierce sun by day and heat that leaves the moment it sets.

How busy it gets

Busy. Popular without being frantic; book the things you care about, improvise the rest.

Crowd levels are estimated from climate desirability and school-holiday calendars, not from visitor numbers.

February in Kakamega versus nearby

If Kakamega is one option among several, the nearby comparison is worth making. Nakuru is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day more rain. Nairobi is close enough to be a coin toss — within a degree on temperature, 1 day less rain.

So: February is effectively as good as it gets here — 6 points behind January, which is inside the margin where the weather stops being the deciding factor and price starts being it.

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