Kigali where the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre is located; Nyarutarama, an upmarket suburb housing the city's only golf course; Kimihurura; Remera and Kanombe, from the CBD on the eastern edge of the city, where Kigali International Airport is located. Like the rest of Rwanda, Kigali has a temperate tropical highland climate, with lower temperatures than are typical for equatorial countries because of its high elevation. Under the Köppen climate classification, Kigali is in the tropical savanna climate ("Aw") zone, straddling the subtropical highland climate. The city has a typical daily temperature range between , with little variation through the year. There
Kigali down near Kigali Airport. This was the catalyst for the Rwandan genocide, in which 500,000–1,000,000 Tutsi and politically moderate Hutu were killed in well-planned attacks on the orders of the interim government. Opposition politicians based in Kigali were killed on the first day of the genocide, and the city then became the setting for fierce fighting between the army (mostly Hutu) and the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). On 8 April, Rwandan government forces attacked the RPF base in the parliament building from several directions, but RPF troops successfully fought back. The RPF then began an attack from the north