Mbuji-Mayi
- Population
- 2.1 million
- Coordinates
- 6.14° S, 23.59° E
- Time zone
- Africa/Lubumbashi
Livability
Seven domain scores, weighted. 4 of them have data for Mbuji-Mayi; a missing one is left out of the average, not counted as zero.
- Purchasing power25%No data
- Safetycountry20%42
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%85
- Air quality10%58
- Connectivity10%22
- Cost10%No data
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
What it costs
US dollars a month, against New York.
Nobody has reported prices for Mbuji-Mayi in the last twelve months, so there are no costs to show yet. See the cities of Congo - Kinshasa that have them.
Prices
Everyday prices in US dollars, the median of the month’s contributions.
No prices have been reported for Mbuji-Mayi this year.
Three years of prices
Each line starts at 100 in its first month, so a rise in rent can be read against a rise in salary on the same scale. The core basket is twelve everyday prices. Hover for the actual values.
Fewer than three months of prices so far; the trend appears once there is enough history.
Safety
Numbeo crime survey. Both indices run 0 to 100; they are two sides of the same answers.
Country-level: the livability score uses Congo - Kinshasa's safety figure
No crime survey has been published for Mbuji-Mayi yet.
Quality of life
Numbeo's published indices for Mbuji-Mayi. Listed as Numbeo computes them, next to this index's own figures above.
Numbeo has not ranked Mbuji-Mayi on quality of life.
Climate
Monthly means from NASA POWER climate normals. Temperature bands use the same scale on every city page.
- Annual mean
- 25.8 °C
- Warmest monthAugust
- 27.8 °C
- Coldest monthDecember
- 24.8 °C
- Rain a year
- 1,184 mm
- HumidityRelative, annual mean
- 67%
- SunshineSolar energy per day
- 5.1 kWh/m²
- Clear-sky daysA year
- 10
- Comfort score0-100, 100 at 14-22 °C
- 85
Air, internet and housing
The last 30 days of air, the latest month of broadband tests, and the property survey.
Air
- Unhealthy days
- 0AQI above 100
- Worst day
- 82
- PM2.5
- 22.3µg/m³, mean
- Air score
- 580-100
Internet
Measured in Mbuji-Mayi- Upload
- 24Mbps, fixed
- Latency
- 51ms, fixed
- Mobile download
- —Mbps
- Mobile latency
- —ms
Speedtest Global Index, Aug 2026.
Housing
No property survey for Mbuji-Mayi yet.
Cities like Mbuji-Mayi
In other countries, with the closest livability score and cost of living index.
No comparable cities found yet.
About these numbers
What the figures on this page rest on.
- Confidence
- Low confidence
- Contributors
- —Numbeo price survey
- Latest prices
- —
- Months with prices
- —Last 12 months
- Items priced
- —Of the 55 items
- Location
- Matched to a GeoNames reference city
- Index rebuilt
- 25 Sept 2026