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Kolwezi weather

Lualaba · 790,248 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 19:17

Air: Poor Moderate storm risk · Today, Tomorrow, Sat

19°

Rain

Feels like 19°C

Wind

7 km/h

Gusts

12 km/h

Humidity

89 %

Pressure

1012 hPa

Clouds

58 %

Storm

Rise 05:47 Set 18:15 Day 12 h 28 min UV 11 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Rain

22°17°

Feels like 27°

Wind ↑ SW 8 km/h

Gusts 26 km/h

Humidity 77 %

💧 16.3 mm

20:00

22°

15.7mm

SW 1

23:00

17°

0.6mm

WNW 8

Kolwezi 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)

Kolwezi climate: what a normal year looks like

The hottest stretch is September, when afternoons average 31 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 14 °C.

The wet season is concentrated from December to February, which brings 57% of the annual total; January by itself averages 240 mm.

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

Typical highs of 30 °C or more are reached in September only, at 31 °C.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 29 °C, 1 °C cooler than a normal October (30 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	24 °C	18 °C	240 mm
Feb	25 °C	18 °C	202 mm
Mar	26 °C	18 °C	183 mm
Apr	26 °C	18 °C	55 mm
May	28 °C	17 °C	4 mm
Jun	27 °C	15 °C	0 mm
Jul	27 °C	14 °C	0 mm
Aug	29 °C	17 °C	1 mm
Sep	31 °C	19 °C	12 mm
Oct	30 °C	19 °C	72 mm
Nov	26 °C	18 °C	181 mm
Dec	25 °C	18 °C	219 mm
Whole year	27 °C	17 °C	1,170 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 10.71° S, 25.47° 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 Kolwezi: pollution and pollen

4/6

Poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.526µg/m³

PM1026µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Kolwezi

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

Moon over Kolwezi

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 05:36 Set 17:29

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 Kolwezi

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

Kolwezi weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Kolwezi, Lualaba: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “rain”, it is 19 °C (feels like 19 °C) and the wind blows at 7 km/h.

Expected range today: 17 °C to 29 °C and around 32 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.

Other big cities nearby

Likasi 142 km 24°

Solwezi 190 km 23°

Lubumbashi 243 km 31°

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