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Kasai-Central · 1,247,168 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 19:17

Air: Good Hot · 1 d Moderate storm risk · Today, Sat, Sun

29°

Drizzle

Feels like 35°C

Wind

3 km/h

Gusts

8 km/h

Humidity

57 %

Pressure

1009 hPa

Clouds

94 %

Storm

Low

Rise 06:04 Set 18:23 Day 12 h 18 min UV 4 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Rain showers

23°21°

Feels like 30°

Wind ↑ NNW 6 km/h

Humidity 82 %

💧 0.2 mm

20:00

23°

0.2mm

NNW 4

23:00

21°

NE 6

Kananga 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)

Kananga climate: what a normal year looks like

The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 28 °C in November to 32 °C in July, and the coolest nights (June) average 20 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 1,410 mm of rain — more than 72% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Days are almost the same length all year: 11 h 46 min of daylight in late June, 12 h 28 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 31 °C, 2 °C warmer than a normal October (29 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	29 °C	21 °C	135 mm
Feb	30 °C	21 °C	130 mm
Mar	30 °C	21 °C	174 mm
Apr	30 °C	21 °C	173 mm
May	30 °C	21 °C	65 mm
Jun	31 °C	20 °C	12 mm
Jul	32 °C	20 °C	8 mm
Aug	31 °C	21 °C	55 mm
Sep	30 °C	21 °C	134 mm
Oct	29 °C	21 °C	177 mm
Nov	28 °C	21 °C	183 mm
Dec	29 °C	21 °C	162 mm
Whole year	30 °C	21 °C	1,410 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 5.90° S, 22.42° 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 Kananga: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.56µg/m³

PM107µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Kananga

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

Moon over Kananga

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 05:38 Set 17:52

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 Kananga

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

Kananga weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Kananga, Kasai-Central: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “drizzle”, it is 29 °C (feels like 35 °C) and the wind blows at 3 km/h.

Expected range today: 21 °C to 29 °C and a dry sky; keep an eye on thunderstorms; 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

Mbuji-Mayi 132 km 26°

Tshikapa 188 km 29°

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