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Natal weather

Rio Grande do Norte · 896,708 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 15:32

Air: Good Low storm risk · Wed, Thu, Sat

29°

Clear sky

Feels like 38°C

Wind

25 km/h

Gusts

25 km/h

Humidity

65 %

Pressure

1012 hPa

Clouds

2 %

Storm

Rise 04:55 Set 17:13 Day 12 h 18 min UV 11 · Extreme

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Afternoon

Clear sky

31°29°

Feels like 38°

Wind ↑ ESE 25 km/h

Humidity 47 %

Evening

Mainly clear

27°26°

Feels like 37°

Wind ↑ ESE 21 km/h

Gusts 29 km/h

Humidity 78 %

15:00

29°

ESE 25

18:00

26°

SE 17

Natal forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +2.1° warmer than usual

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

Hourly detail

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

Natal climate: what a normal year looks like

The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 26 °C in July to 28 °C in March, and the coolest nights (August) average 23 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 1,250 mm of rain — more than 65% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Days are almost the same length all year: 11 h 47 min of daylight in late June, 12 h 27 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 31 °C, 4 °C warmer than a normal October (27 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	28 °C	25 °C	87 mm
Feb	28 °C	25 °C	112 mm
Mar	28 °C	25 °C	161 mm
Apr	28 °C	25 °C	194 mm
May	28 °C	25 °C	160 mm
Jun	27 °C	24 °C	165 mm
Jul	26 °C	23 °C	142 mm
Aug	27 °C	23 °C	64 mm
Sep	27 °C	24 °C	43 mm
Oct	27 °C	25 °C	35 mm
Nov	28 °C	25 °C	36 mm
Dec	28 °C	25 °C	52 mm
Whole year	28 °C	25 °C	1,250 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 5.75° S, 35.20° W, 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 Natal: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.57µg/m³

PM1012µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Natal

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Natal, 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 Natal yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Natal

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 14:39 Set 01:49

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 (America/Fortaleza); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Natal

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

Natal weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 29 °C (feels like 38 °C) and the wind blows at 25 km/h.

Expected range today: 26 °C to 31 °C and a dry sky; keep an eye on thunderstorms. 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.

Other big cities nearby

João Pessoa 156 km 29°

Campina Grande 181 km 33°

Paulista 246 km 29°

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