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Lubumbashi weather

Haut-Katanga · 2,221,925 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 19:17

Raining now Air: Moderate Very hot · 8 d Low storm risk · Thu, Wed, Thu

31°

Partly cloudy

Feels like 32°C

Wind

4 km/h

Gusts

12 km/h

Humidity

27 %

Pressure

1007 hPa

Clouds

51 %

Storm

Rise 05:38 Set 18:08 Day 12 h 29 min UV 9 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Rain showers

24°20°

Feels like 28°

Wind ↑ SW 8 km/h

Gusts 23 km/h

Humidity 63 %

💧 0.6 mm

20:00

24°

0.6mm

SW 3

23:00

20°

N 8

Lubumbashi 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)

Lubumbashi climate: what a normal year looks like

The wet season is concentrated from December to February, which brings 65% of the annual total; January by itself averages 272 mm.

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

The hottest stretch is October, when afternoons average 32 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 12 °C.

Day and night differ most in August: 28 °C in the afternoon against 14 °C before dawn, a 14 °C swing.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 34 °C, 2 °C warmer than a normal October (32 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	26 °C	18 °C	272 mm
Feb	26 °C	18 °C	229 mm
Mar	26 °C	18 °C	187 mm
Apr	26 °C	17 °C	42 mm
May	27 °C	15 °C	3 mm
Jun	26 °C	12 °C	0 mm
Jul	25 °C	12 °C	0 mm
Aug	28 °C	15 °C	0 mm
Sep	31 °C	17 °C	3 mm
Oct	32 °C	19 °C	29 mm
Nov	29 °C	18 °C	142 mm
Dec	26 °C	18 °C	240 mm
Whole year	27 °C	16 °C	1,150 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 11.66° S, 27.48° 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 Lubumbashi: pollution and pollen

3/6

Moderate

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.521µg/m³

PM1022µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Lubumbashi

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

Moon over Lubumbashi

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 05:30 Set 17:18

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 Lubumbashi

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

Lubumbashi weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Lubumbashi, Haut-Katanga: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “partly cloudy”, it is 31 °C (feels like 32 °C) and the wind blows at 4 km/h.

Expected range today: 20 °C to 35 °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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