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Kinshasa · 16,000,000 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 18:17

Air: Fair Hot · 1 d Moderate storm risk · Today, Tomorrow, Sat

31°

Drizzle

Feels like 38°C

Wind

16 km/h

Gusts

17 km/h

Humidity

53 %

Pressure

1009 hPa

Clouds

100 %

Storm

Low

Rise 05:34 Set 17:50 Day 12 h 15 min UV 3 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Rain showers

27°26°

Feels like 36°

Wind ↑ S 4 km/h

Humidity 76 %

💧 1.8 mm

⚡ storm

19:00

27°

0.4mm

WNW 2

22:00

26°

1.4mm

S 4

Kinshasa 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)

Kinshasa 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 July to 31 °C in March, and the coolest nights (July) average 20 °C.

From June to August, rain is scarce: under 10 mm a month on average.

A normal year brings roughly 1,160 mm of rain — more than 60% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 31 °C, 1 °C warmer than a normal October (30 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	30 °C	23 °C	129 mm
Feb	30 °C	23 °C	113 mm
Mar	31 °C	23 °C	124 mm
Apr	31 °C	23 °C	165 mm
May	30 °C	23 °C	91 mm
Jun	29 °C	21 °C	8 mm
Jul	28 °C	20 °C	2 mm
Aug	29 °C	20 °C	8 mm
Sep	30 °C	22 °C	22 mm
Oct	30 °C	23 °C	128 mm
Nov	29 °C	22 °C	198 mm
Dec	29 °C	22 °C	169 mm
Whole year	30 °C	22 °C	1,160 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 4.33° S, 15.31° 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 Kinshasa: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.517µg/m³

PM1018µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Kinshasa

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

Moon over Kinshasa

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 07:04 Set 19:26

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 Kinshasa

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

Kinshasa weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Kinshasa, Kinshasa: 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 31 °C (feels like 38 °C) and the wind blows at 16 km/h.

Expected range today: 24 °C to 31 °C and around 2 mm of rain; 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

Brazzaville 8 km 31°

Masina 11 km 29°

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