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Salvador weather

Bahia · 2,711,840 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 16:13

Air: Good Moderate storm risk · Sun, Tue, Mon

26°

Rain showers

Feels like 37°C

Wind

20 km/h

Gusts

20 km/h

Humidity

84 %

Pressure

1014 hPa

Clouds

3 %

Storm

Rise 05:01 Set 17:34 Day 12 h 32 min UV 11 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Afternoon

Rain showers

26°

Feels like 37°

Wind ↑ S 20 km/h

Humidity 84 %

💧 0.5 mm

Evening

Mainly clear

26°

Feels like 37°

Wind ↑ S 22 km/h

Humidity 86 %

18:00

26°

S 22

Salvador 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)

Salvador climate: what a normal year looks like

The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 25 °C in August to 29 °C in March, and the coolest nights (August) average 22 °C.

Swimmers find the warmest sea in March (28 °C) and the coolest in August (25 °C).

A normal year brings roughly 1,330 mm of rain — more than 69% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

The coming week looks normal for October: forecast highs average 27 °C, against a usual 27 °C.

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall	Sea
Jan	29 °C	25 °C	70 mm	28 °C
Feb	29 °C	25 °C	75 mm	28 °C
Mar	29 °C	25 °C	103 mm	28 °C
Apr	28 °C	25 °C	168 mm	28 °C
May	27 °C	24 °C	209 mm	28 °C
Jun	26 °C	23 °C	178 mm	27 °C
Jul	25 °C	23 °C	142 mm	26 °C
Aug	25 °C	22 °C	108 mm	25 °C
Sep	26 °C	23 °C	83 mm	26 °C
Oct	27 °C	24 °C	71 mm	26 °C
Nov	28 °C	24 °C	73 mm	27 °C
Dec	29 °C	25 °C	49 mm	27 °C
Whole year	27 °C	24 °C	1,330 mm	27 °C

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 12.98° S, 38.49° 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 Salvador: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.58µg/m³

PM109µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Salvador

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

Moon over Salvador

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 15:09 Set 01:46

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/Bahia); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Sea and tides near Salvador

Tide station used: Salvador · 3 km away

🌊 Sea surface

26.5 °C

satellite, 29/10

Sea state

Slight

waves 1.3 m

Period

7 s

Swell

0.8 m

WedWed 28/10

Low tide 23:18 0.3 m

TodayThu 29/10

High tide 05:44 2.4 m

Low tide 11:44 0.6 m

High tide 17:55 2.4 m

TomorrowFri 30/10

Low tide 00:04 0.5 m

High tide 06:38 2.2 m

Low tide 12:31 0.8 m

High tide 18:46 2.2 m

SatSat 31/10

Low tide 01:01 0.7 m

High tide 07:48 2.1 m

Low tide 13:35 1.0 m

High tide 19:57 2.1 m

Indicative heights above chart datum. Coefficient: 20 for the weakest tides, 120 for the strongest.

Look up a past day in Salvador

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

Salvador weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Salvador, Bahia: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “rain showers”, it is 26 °C (feels like 37 °C) and the wind blows at 20 km/h.

Expected range today: 26 °C to 26 °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, plus the tide times for Salvador.

Other big cities nearby

Camaçari 36 km 28°

Feira de Santana 94 km 29°

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