Winter Weather at Voi Airport Kenya

Daily high temperatures are around 83°F, rarely falling below 78°F or exceeding 87°F. The lowest daily average high temperature is 81°F on August 1.

Daily low temperatures are around 66°F, rarely falling below 62°F or exceeding 69°F. The lowest daily average low temperature is 65°F on August 18.

For reference, on March 7, the hottest day of the year, temperatures at Voi Airport typically range from 70°F to 91°F, while on August 15, the coldest day of the year, they range from 65°F to 81°F.

The figure below shows you a compact characterization of the hourly average winter temperatures. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the color is the average temperature for that hour and day.

Sabana Grande de Boyá, Dominican Republic (7,499 miles away) and Campina Grande, Brazil (5,127 miles) are the far-away foreign places with temperatures most similar to Voi Airport (view comparison).

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The winter at Voi Airport experiences very rapidly decreasing cloud cover, with the percentage of time that the sky is overcast or mostly cloudy decreasing from 50% to 32%. The lowest chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 32% on August 31.

The clearest day of the winter is August 31, with clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy conditions 68% of the time.

For reference, on March 20, the cloudiest day of the year, the chance of overcast or mostly cloudy conditions is 72%, while on August 31, the clearest day of the year, the chance of clear, mostly clear, or partly cloudy skies is 68%.

A wet day is one with at least 0.04 inches of liquid or liquid-equivalent precipitation. At Voi Airport, the chance of a wet day over the course of the winter is very rapidly decreasing, starting the season at 13% and ending it at 3%.

For reference, the year's highest daily chance of a wet day is 43% on November 27, and its lowest chance is 3% on July 23.

Rainfall

To show variation within the season and not just the monthly totals, we show the rainfall accumulated over a sliding 31-day period centered around each day.

The average sliding 31-day rainfall during the winter at Voi Airport is decreasing, starting the season at 0.8 inches, when it rarely exceeds 1.8 inches or falls below 0.1 inches, and ending the season at 0.2 inches, when it rarely exceeds 0.8 inches.

The lowest average 31-day accumulation is 0.2 inches on July 12.

Over the course of the winter at Voi Airport, the length of the day is essentially constant. The shortest day of the winter is June 18, with 11 hours, 56 minutes of daylight and the longest day is August 31, with 12 hours, 3 minutes of daylight.

The latest sunrise of the winter at Voi Airport is 6:33 AM on July 20 and the earliest sunrise is 9 minutes earlier at 6:24 AM on August 31.

The earliest sunset is 6:21 PM on June 1 and the latest sunset is 9 minutes later at 6:31 PM on July 31.

Daylight saving time is not observed at Voi Airport during 2024.

For reference, on December 21, the longest day of the year, the Sun rises at 6:14 AM and sets 12 hours, 19 minutes later, at 6:33 PM, while on June 20, the shortest day of the year, it rises at 6:29 AM and sets 11 hours, 56 minutes later, at 6:25 PM.

The figure below presents a compact representation of the sun's elevation (the angle of the sun above the horizon) and azimuth (its compass bearing) for every hour of every day in the reporting period. The horizontal axis is the day of the year and the vertical axis is the hour of the day. For a given day and hour of that day, the background color indicates the azimuth of the sun at that moment. The black isolines are contours of constant solar elevation.

The figure below presents a compact representation of key lunar data for the winter of 2024. The horizontal axis is the day, the vertical axis is the hour of the day, and the colored areas indicate when the moon is above the horizon. The vertical gray bars (new Moons) and blue bars (full Moons) indicate key Moon phases. The label associated with each bar indicates the date and time that the phase is obtained, and the companion time labels indicate the rise and set times of the Moon for the nearest time interval in which the moon is above the horizon.

We base the humidity comfort level on the dew point, as it determines whether perspiration will evaporate from the skin, thereby cooling the body. Lower dew points feel drier and higher dew points feel more humid. Unlike temperature, which typically varies significantly between night and day, dew point tends to change more slowly, so while the temperature may drop at night, a muggy day is typically followed by a muggy night.

The chance that a given day will be muggy at Voi Airport is very rapidly decreasing during the winter, falling from 25% to 2% over the course of the season.

The lowest chance of a muggy day during the winter is 1% on July 23.

For reference, on December 11, the muggiest day of the year, there are muggy conditions 90% of the time, while on July 23, the least muggy day of the year, there are muggy conditions 1% of the time.

This section discusses the wide-area hourly average wind vector (speed and direction) at 10 meters above the ground. The wind experienced at any given location is highly dependent on local topography and other factors, and instantaneous wind speed and direction vary more widely than hourly averages.

The average hourly wind speed at Voi Airport is increasing during the winter, increasing from 9.4 miles per hour to 11.4 miles per hour over the course of the season.

For reference, on August 14, the windiest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 11.5 miles per hour, while on March 25, the calmest day of the year, the daily average wind speed is 6.2 miles per hour.

The highest daily average wind speed during the winter is 11.5 miles per hour on August 19.

The hourly average wind direction at Voi Airport throughout the winter is predominantly from the south, with a peak proportion of 100% on July 6.

Definitions of the growing season vary throughout the world, but for the purposes of this report, we define it as the longest continuous period of non-freezing temperatures (≥ 32°F) in the year (the calendar year in the Northern Hemisphere, or from July 1 until June 30 in the Southern Hemisphere).

Temperatures at Voi Airport are sufficiently warm year round that it is not entirely meaningful to discuss the growing season in these terms. We nevertheless include the chart below as an illustration of the distribution of temperatures experienced throughout the year.

Growing degree days are a measure of yearly heat accumulation used to predict plant and animal development, and defined as the integral of warmth above a base temperature, discarding any excess above a maximum temperature. In this report, we use a base of 50°F and a cap of 86°F.

The average accumulated growing degree days at Voi Airport are very rapidly decreasing during the winter, decreasing by 7,279°F, from 8,633°F to 1,354°F, over the course of the season.

This section discusses the total daily incident shortwave solar energy reaching the surface of the ground over a wide area, taking full account of seasonal variations in the length of the day, the elevation of the Sun above the horizon, and absorption by clouds and other atmospheric constituents. Shortwave radiation includes visible light and ultraviolet radiation.

The average daily incident shortwave solar energy at Voi Airport is gradually increasing during the winter, rising by 0.9 kWh, from 6.0 kWh to 6.9 kWh, over the course of the season.

For the purposes of this report, the geographical coordinates of Voi Airport are -3.370 deg latitude, 38.533 deg longitude, and 1,998 ft elevation.

The topography within 2 miles of Voi Airport contains significant variations in elevation, with a maximum elevation change of 495 feet and an average elevation above sea level of 2,049 feet. Within 10 miles contains significant variations in elevation (4,232 feet). Within 50 miles also contains extreme variations in elevation (6,663 feet).

The area within 2 miles of Voi Airport is covered by shrubs (64%) and cropland (35%), within 10 miles by shrubs (60%) and cropland (21%), and within 50 miles by shrubs (50%) and grassland (36%).