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Bukavu weather

South Kivu · 816,811 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 19:17

Raining now Air: Good Moderate storm risk · Today, Tomorrow, Sat

17°

Rain

Feels like 17°C

Wind

6 km/h

Gusts

10 km/h

Humidity

91 %

Pressure

1015 hPa

Clouds

60 %

Storm

Low

Rise 05:42 Set 17:54 Day 12 h 11 min UV 3 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Rain

16°15°

Feels like 16°

Wind ↑ W 5 km/h

Humidity 91 %

💧 15.6 mm

20:00

16°

10.9mm

WNW 2

23:00

15°

4.7mm

W 5

Bukavu 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)

Bukavu climate: what a normal year looks like

The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 23 °C in December to 25 °C in September, and the coolest nights (July) average 15 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 1,790 mm of rain — more than 84% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Days are almost the same length all year: 11 h 58 min of daylight in late June, 12 h 16 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 22 °C, 2 °C cooler than a normal October (24 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	23 °C	15 °C	235 mm
Feb	24 °C	15 °C	180 mm
Mar	24 °C	16 °C	197 mm
Apr	23 °C	16 °C	205 mm
May	23 °C	16 °C	95 mm
Jun	24 °C	15 °C	23 mm
Jul	24 °C	15 °C	9 mm
Aug	24 °C	15 °C	24 mm
Sep	25 °C	16 °C	76 mm
Oct	24 °C	16 °C	216 mm
Nov	23 °C	15 °C	274 mm
Dec	23 °C	15 °C	257 mm
Whole year	24 °C	15 °C	1,790 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 2.49° S, 28.84° 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 Bukavu: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.510µg/m³

PM1010µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Bukavu

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

Moon over Bukavu

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 05:04 Set 17:33

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

Look up a past day in Bukavu

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

Bukavu weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Bukavu, South Kivu: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “rain”, it is 17 °C (feels like 17 °C) and the wind blows at 6 km/h.

Expected range today: 15 °C to 21 °C and around 34 mm of rain; 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.

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