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Matadi weather

Bas-Congo · 425,662 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 18:17

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

28°

Rain showers

Feels like 36°C

Wind

10 km/h

Gusts

15 km/h

Humidity

70 %

Pressure

1011 hPa

Clouds

64 %

Storm

Low

Rise 05:40 Set 17:59 Day 12 h 18 min UV 3 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Rain showers

26°24°

Feels like 37°

Wind ↑ WSW 5 km/h

Humidity 84 %

💧 2.4 mm

⚡ storm

19:00

26°

0.6mm

WSW 3

22:00

24°

1.8mm

SW 5

Matadi forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +2.0° warmer than usual

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Matadi climate: what a normal year looks like

The hottest stretch is March, when afternoons average 30 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 18 °C.

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from February to April; the typical peak is 30 °C in March.

A normal year brings roughly 1,220 mm of rain — more than 64% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 32 °C, 3 °C warmer than a normal October (29 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	30 °C	23 °C	165 mm
Feb	30 °C	23 °C	136 mm
Mar	30 °C	23 °C	150 mm
Apr	30 °C	23 °C	210 mm
May	29 °C	22 °C	81 mm
Jun	27 °C	20 °C	7 mm
Jul	26 °C	18 °C	5 mm
Aug	26 °C	19 °C	11 mm
Sep	27 °C	20 °C	20 mm
Oct	29 °C	22 °C	74 mm
Nov	30 °C	23 °C	169 mm
Dec	29 °C	23 °C	194 mm
Whole year	28 °C	21 °C	1,220 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 5.84° S, 13.46° 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 Matadi: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.515µg/m³

PM1016µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Matadi

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

Moon over Matadi

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 07:16 Set 19:30

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 Matadi

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

Matadi weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Matadi, Bas-Congo: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “rain showers”, it is 28 °C (feels like 36 °C) and the wind blows at 10 km/h.

Expected range today: 24 °C to 31 °C and around 4 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

Cabinda 144 km 26°

Pointe-Noire 213 km 27°

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