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Lobito weather

Benguela · 393,079 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 19:52

Drizzle
25°
Drizzle
Feels like 35°C
Wind
14 km/h
Gusts
25 km/h
Humidity
87 %
Pressure
1013 hPa
Clouds
77 %
Storm
No
Rise 05:33 Set 18:05 Day 12 h 31 min UV 8 · High

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Rain showers
Rain showers
25°
Feels like 35°
Wind ↑ SW 14 km/h
Gusts 25 km/h
Humidity 87 %
💧 1.1 mm
19:00
Drizzle
25°
0.3mm
SW 14
22:00
Rain showers
25°
0.8mm
ESE 14

Lobito 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)
21°23°24°26°27°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed26°24°Thu 29 Oct: max 25° · min 24° · normal 24.1°Fri 30 Oct: max 26° · min 23° · normal 24.1°Sat 31 Oct: max 25° · min 23° · normal 24.2°Sun 1 Nov: max 25° · min 23° · normal 24.2°Mon 2 Nov: max 25° · min 24° · normal 24.3°Tue 3 Nov: max 25° · min 24° · normal 24.3°Wed 4 Nov: max 26° · min 24° · normal 24.4°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu22°25°27°26°23°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Lobito climate: what a normal year looks like

The wet season is concentrated from February to April, which brings 61% of the annual total; March by itself averages 137 mm.

A normal year brings roughly 450 mm of rain — less than 89% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

The hottest stretch is April, when afternoons average 29 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 18 °C.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 25 °C, 2 °C cooler than a normal October (27 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan28 °C23 °C50 mm
Feb29 °C24 °C63 mm
Mar29 °C24 °C137 mm
Apr29 °C24 °C74 mm
May28 °C22 °C5 mm
Jun25 °C19 °C5 mm
Jul23 °C18 °C6 mm
Aug24 °C18 °C4 mm
Sep25 °C20 °C4 mm
Oct27 °C22 °C11 mm
Nov28 °C23 °C36 mm
Dec28 °C23 °C54 mm
Whole year27 °C22 °C450 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 12.36° S, 13.54° 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 Lobito: 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 Lobito

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

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas
Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

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

Moon over Lobito

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 07:30 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 Lobito

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

Lobito weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Lobito, Benguela: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “drizzle”, it is 25 °C (feels like 35 °C) and the wind blows at 14 km/h.

Expected range today: 24 °C to 25 °C and around 1 mm of rain. 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