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Benguela weather

Baía Farta Area · 555,124 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 18:00

Raining now Air: Fair

26°

Mainly clear

Feels like 34°C

Wind

12 km/h

Gusts

12 km/h

Humidity

76 %

Pressure

1012 hPa

Clouds

47 %

Storm

Rise 05:34 Set 18:06 Day 12 h 31 min UV 10 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Rain showers

26°25°

Feels like 33°

Wind ↑ WSW 12 km/h

Gusts 21 km/h

Humidity 64 %

💧 0.3 mm

19:00

25°

0.1mm

WSW 8

22:00

26°

0.2mm

SE 12

Benguela forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

≈ A week close to the usual temperatures

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Benguela climate: what a normal year looks like

A normal year brings roughly 380 mm of rain — less than 92% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

From May to October, rain is scarce: under 10 mm a month on average.

The hottest stretch is April, when afternoons average 30 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 18 °C.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 28 °C, 1 °C warmer than a normal October (27 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	29 °C	23 °C	46 mm
Feb	30 °C	24 °C	56 mm
Mar	30 °C	24 °C	120 mm
Apr	30 °C	24 °C	57 mm
May	29 °C	22 °C	3 mm
Jun	26 °C	19 °C	4 mm
Jul	24 °C	18 °C	4 mm
Aug	24 °C	18 °C	3 mm
Sep	25 °C	19 °C	3 mm
Oct	27 °C	22 °C	8 mm
Nov	29 °C	23 °C	27 mm
Dec	29 °C	23 °C	47 mm
Whole year	27 °C	22 °C	380 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 12.58° S, 13.40° E, 1991–2020. ERA5 averages over a 0.25° grid (about 25 km): hills, a coastline or the heat of the city itself can shift local values by a degree or two.

Air you breathe in Benguela: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.515µg/m³

PM1019µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Benguela

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Benguela, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Benguela yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Benguela

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 07:31 Set 19:15

Fri 30/10 79%

Sat 31/10 69%

Sun 1/11 59%

Mon 2/11 49% Last quarter

Tue 3/11 38%

Wed 4/11 28%

Thu 5/11 19%

Fri 6/11 12%

Sat 7/11 6%

Sun 8/11 2%

Mon 9/11 0%

Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Africa/Luanda); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Benguela

Curious about the weather in Benguela on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.

Benguela weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Benguela, Baía Farta Area: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “mainly clear”, it is 26 °C (feels like 34 °C) and the wind blows at 12 km/h.

Expected range today: 25 °C to 27 °C and a dry sky. The forecast comes from the AtmoAtlas engine, which combines ECMWF-AIFS, NOAA GFS and DWD ICON, adjusts cloud cover with METAR reports and uses convective energy (CAPE) to flag storms.

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations