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Kikwit weather

Kwilu · 509,367 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 18:17

Air: Fair Very hot · 3 d Low storm risk · Sat, Mon, Fri

28°

Overcast

Feels like 35°C

Wind

3 km/h

Gusts

9 km/h

Humidity

57 %

Pressure

1010 hPa

Clouds

100 %

Storm

Rise 05:20 Set 17:36 Day 12 h 16 min UV 8 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Mainly clear

27°22°

Feels like 33°

Wind ↑ E 6 km/h

Humidity 59 %

💧 0.1 mm

19:00

27°

0.1mm

E 6

22:00

22°

NE 2

Kikwit 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)

Kikwit climate: what a normal year looks like

The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 29 °C in November to 32 °C in July, and the coolest nights (July) 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 49 min of daylight in late June, 12 h 25 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 33 °C, 3 °C warmer than a normal October (30 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	30 °C	22 °C	124 mm
Feb	31 °C	22 °C	119 mm
Mar	31 °C	22 °C	147 mm
Apr	30 °C	22 °C	183 mm
May	30 °C	22 °C	98 mm
Jun	31 °C	21 °C	20 mm
Jul	32 °C	20 °C	12 mm
Aug	32 °C	21 °C	52 mm
Sep	31 °C	22 °C	122 mm
Oct	30 °C	21 °C	183 mm
Nov	30 °C	21 °C	190 mm
Dec	30 °C	21 °C	159 mm
Whole year	31 °C	21 °C	1,410 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 5.04° S, 18.82° 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 Kikwit: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.511µg/m³

PM1011µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Kikwit

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

Moon over Kikwit

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 06:51 Set 19:09

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

Look up a past day in Kikwit

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

Kikwit weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Kikwit, Kwilu: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “overcast”, it is 28 °C (feels like 35 °C) and the wind blows at 3 km/h.

Expected range today: 22 °C to 33 °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.

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