Seasonal guide · EBB → DEN

Best Time to Fly: KampalaDenver

CapitalWashington
Population340,110,988
CurrencyUSD $ United States dollar
LanguageEnglish
Time ZoneUTC-06:00 MDT
AirportDEN
Distance13,810 km
Flight Time16h 44m
Visitors/yr~8,658,436

The honest answer to when you should fly Kampala to Denver is mostly about weather and demand at the far end. On three years of daily observations at the arrival airport, May-Jun, Sep-Oct gives the most comfortable combination of temperature and rainfall in Denver.

Weather in Denver, month by month

Averages below come from three full years of daily readings at Denver’s main airport, not from a seasonal generalisation. The warmest month is July (average high 32°C), the coolest is January (average low -7°C), and the wettest is May (79 mm).

MonthAvg highAvg lowRainfallWet daysKampala high
January5°C-7°C14 mm526°C
February10°C-3°C18 mm526°C
March16°C1°C37 mm626°C
April18°C3°C44 mm925°C
May good21°C8°C79 mm1025°C
June good30°C15°C35 mm525°C
July32°C18°C31 mm725°C
August31°C17°C41 mm925°C
September good27°C13°C42 mm526°C
October good20°C6°C22 mm426°C
November12°C0°C26 mm525°C
December11°C-2°C10 mm325°C

Climate data: Open-Meteo reanalysis archive.

Packing for the gap: in September, Denver averages 27°C against 26°C in Kampala — close enough that you can pack much as you would at home.

Time difference and jet lag

Denver runs 9 hours behind Kampala. Travelling west is generally the easier direction, and you gain usable hours on the day you fly out.

When fares move on this route

We publish observed fares for this route when we have them, and say nothing when we do not — there is no estimate on this page. What holds regardless of the route:

  • The travel date matters more than the booking date. Midweek departures are consistently cheaper than Friday and Sunday, because that is when demand actually sits.
  • Comfortable weather and low fares rarely coincide. May-Jun, Sep-Oct is the pleasant window in Denver, which is also when more people want to go. The shoulder weeks either side of it are usually the better value.
  • School holidays and local events override everything. A festival or a public holiday at either end will outweigh any general booking rule.
  • Set an alert rather than watching manually. Fares move at hours you are not looking, and the useful booking window is weeks wide, not days.

Which day to fly

Midweek departures are consistently cheaper than Friday and Sunday on most routes, because that is where demand sits rather than because of any pricing trick. Where we have observed fares for Kampala–Denver, the weekday breakdown appears further down this page; where we do not, we leave it out rather than estimate it.

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