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Maroua weather

Far North · 314,122 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 18:42

Air: Poor Heatwave risk · 10 d

37°

Mainly clear

Feels like 37°C

Wind

13 km/h

Gusts

16 km/h

Humidity

13 %

Pressure

1008 hPa

Clouds

33 %

Storm

Rise 05:53 Set 17:39 Day 11 h 46 min UV 8 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Mainly clear

29°28°

Feels like 29°

Wind ↑ NNW 12 km/h

Humidity 21 %

19:00

28°

NNW 7

22:00

29°

NNW 12

Maroua forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +3.2° warmer than usual

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

Hourly detail

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

Maroua climate: what a normal year looks like

The wet season is concentrated from July to September, which brings 76% of the annual total; August by itself averages 217 mm.

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from September to July; the typical peak is 40 °C in April.

From November to April, rain is scarce: under 10 mm a month on average.

Day and night differ most in December: 32 °C in the afternoon against 17 °C before dawn, a 15 °C swing.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 39 °C, 5 °C warmer than a normal October (34 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	32 °C	17 °C	0 mm
Feb	35 °C	20 °C	0 mm
Mar	38 °C	24 °C	0 mm
Apr	40 °C	27 °C	10 mm
May	37 °C	27 °C	40 mm
Jun	34 °C	25 °C	73 mm
Jul	31 °C	23 °C	139 mm
Aug	30 °C	22 °C	217 mm
Sep	31 °C	23 °C	116 mm
Oct	34 °C	23 °C	29 mm
Nov	34 °C	20 °C	1 mm
Dec	32 °C	17 °C	0 mm
Whole year	34 °C	22 °C	620 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 10.59° N, 14.32° 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 Maroua: pollution and pollen

4/6

Poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.526µg/m³

PM1033µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Maroua

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

Moon over Maroua

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 06:35 Set 20:03

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

Look up a past day in Maroua

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

Maroua weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Maroua, Far North: 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 37 °C (feels like 37 °C) and the wind blows at 13 km/h.

Expected range today: 24 °C to 37 °C and a dry sky; it will be very hot. 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

N'Djamena 186 km 38°

Maiduguri 188 km 37°

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