11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Clear sky
21°
Feels like 23°
Wind↑ WSW 3 km/h
Humidity 56 %
Evening
Rain showers
18°
Feels like 18°
Wind↑ NE 7 km/h
Humidity 79 %
💧 0.6 mm
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Rain showers
20°
Feels like 23°
Wind↑ WNW 2 km/h
Humidity 62 %
💧 0.2 mm
Evening
Rain showers
17°
Feels like 17°
Wind↑ NE 7 km/h
Humidity 83 %
💧 1.5 mm
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Rain showers
18°
Feels like 18°
Wind↑ N 9 km/h
Humidity 84 %
💧 0.8 mm
Evening
Rain showers
17°
Feels like 17°
Wind↑ ENE 7 km/h
Humidity 85 %
💧 4.0 mm
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Rain showers
19°
Feels like 19°
Wind↑ N 3 km/h
Humidity 72 %
💧 0.2 mm
Goma 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)
Goma climate: what a normal year looks like
Ranked against the 111 towns of 20,000+ people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Goma has the second lowest mean temperature.
A normal year brings roughly 3,040 mm of rain — more than 98% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.
The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 20 °C in November to 22 °C in March, and the coolest nights (July) average 15 °C.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 22 °C, 1 °C warmer than a normal October (21 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
21 °C
16 °C
222 mm
Feb
22 °C
16 °C
230 mm
Mar
22 °C
16 °C
386 mm
Apr
21 °C
16 °C
307 mm
May
21 °C
16 °C
199 mm
Jun
21 °C
16 °C
111 mm
Jul
21 °C
15 °C
51 mm
Aug
21 °C
16 °C
110 mm
Sep
21 °C
16 °C
245 mm
Oct
21 °C
16 °C
418 mm
Nov
21 °C
16 °C
439 mm
Dec
21 °C
16 °C
323 mm
Whole year
21 °C
16 °C
3,040 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 1.67° S, 29.23° 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 Goma: pollution and pollen
1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.56µg/m³
PM106µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Goma
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Goma, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
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Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
No open weather radar covers Goma yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Goma
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 05:00 Set 17:33
Fri30/1079%
Sat31/1069%
Sun1/1159%
Mon2/1149%Last quarter
Tue3/1138%
Wed4/1128%
Thu5/1119%
Fri6/1112%
Sat7/116%
Sun8/112%
Mon9/110%
Tue10/111%New moon
Moonrise and moonset in local time (Africa/Lubumbashi); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in Goma
Curious about the weather in Goma on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Goma weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Goma, North Kivu: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “light rain”, it is 18 °C (feels like 18 °C) and the wind blows at 14 km/h.
Expected range today: 16 °C to 23 °C and around 7 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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