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Bunia weather

Ituri · 399,282 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 19:17

Rain showers
22°
Rain showers
Feels like 28°C
Wind
9 km/h
Gusts
15 km/h
Humidity
82 %
Pressure
1012 hPa
Clouds
6 %
Storm
Low
Rise 05:40 Set 17:44 Day 12 h 4 min UV 3 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Light rain
Light rain
21°18°
Feels like 27°
Wind ↑ WNW 8 km/h
Gusts 23 km/h
Humidity 87 %
💧 3.9 mm
20:00
Rain showers
21°
2.0mm
NW 5
23:00
Light rain
18°
1.9mm
WNW 8

Bunia 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)
15°19°24°28°32°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed30°17°Thu 29 Oct: max 24° · min 18° · normal 22.4°Fri 30 Oct: max 28° · min 17° · normal 22.3°Sat 31 Oct: max 29° · min 17° · normal 22.3°Sun 1 Nov: max 29° · min 18° · normal 22.3°Mon 2 Nov: max 29° · min 18° · normal 22.3°Tue 3 Nov: max 29° · min 17° · normal 22.3°Wed 4 Nov: max 30° · min 17° · normal 22.3°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu15°24°32°30°17°08
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Bunia 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 November to 29 °C in February, and the coolest nights (December) average 17 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 1,530 mm of rain — more than 76% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Days are almost the same length all year: 12 h 12 min of daylight in late June, 12 h 02 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 28 °C, 2 °C warmer than a normal October (26 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan28 °C18 °C62 mm
Feb29 °C19 °C73 mm
Mar29 °C19 °C139 mm
Apr27 °C19 °C137 mm
May27 °C18 °C104 mm
Jun27 °C18 °C103 mm
Jul27 °C18 °C104 mm
Aug26 °C18 °C143 mm
Sep27 °C18 °C171 mm
Oct26 °C18 °C205 mm
Nov26 °C18 °C175 mm
Dec27 °C17 °C110 mm
Whole year27 °C18 °C1,530 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 1.56° N, 30.25° 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 Bunia: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.516µg/m³
PM1016µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Bunia

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

Moon over Bunia

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 04:49 Set 17:36
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 Bunia

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

Bunia weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Bunia, Ituri: 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 22 °C (feels like 28 °C) and the wind blows at 9 km/h.

Expected range today: 18 °C to 24 °C and around 14 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