Rank 49 · Rwanda

Kigali

Rwanda · metro
7.4
HECI score
C
Class C
Fair Comfort

Component breakdown

Air Quality
PM2.5 as US AQI, annual means over the window
4.6
Poor
Climate
Apparent temperature, 18-24°C optimal
10.0
Optimal
Wind
Daily maximum gusts, calm is comfortable
9.2
Optimal
UV Safety
Hazardous UV peaks penalized, low UV is not
5.6
Fair
Day-Night Swing
Daily max-min gap, mild swings score high
9.8
Optimal
Seasons
Distinct but gentle seasons score highest
7.8
Good
Sunlight
Annual sunshine hours
9.0
Optimal
Rainfall
Volume and year-to-year reliability
7.5
Good
Disaster Risk
Recorded events, 3 yr / 50 km
8.6
Good

Goldilocks curve

Cold18-24°CHot

Kigali sits on the comfort plateau: mean feels-like 21.4°C.

Air quality source

Model, monitor-calibrated

No monitor reports live today, but this city's own monitor history was used to calibrate the CAMS model, correcting its local bias before scoring.

Coordinates-1.9706, 30.1044
Data window10y
Updated7/13/2026
Sources: Open-Meteo, Open-Meteo AQ (CAMS model, monitor-corrected), USGS Earthquakes, NOAA IBTrACS, Smithsonian GVP, GloFAS (Copernicus)