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Mbandaka weather

Équateur · 455,011 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 18:18

Partly cloudy
26°
Partly cloudy
Feels like 35°C
Wind
6 km/h
Gusts
10 km/h
Humidity
75 %
Pressure
1011 hPa
Clouds
56 %
Storm
No
Rise 05:27 Set 17:34 Day 12 h 6 min UV 6 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Mainly clear
Mainly clear
26°22°
Feels like 36°
Wind ↑ NE 5 km/h
Humidity 84 %
19:00
Mainly clear
26°
SSE 3
22:00
Mainly clear
22°
NE 5

Mbandaka 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)
19°23°27°31°35°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed33°23°Thu 29 Oct: max 30° · min 22° · normal 26.0°Fri 30 Oct: max 32° · min 22° · normal 26.0°Sat 31 Oct: max 30° · min 21° · normal 26.0°Sun 1 Nov: max 30° · min 21° · normal 26.0°Mon 2 Nov: max 30° · min 22° · normal 26.1°Tue 3 Nov: max 32° · min 22° · normal 26.1°Wed 4 Nov: max 33° · min 23° · normal 26.1°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu20°28°35°33°21°06
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Mbandaka 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 August to 32 °C in February, and the coolest nights (August) average 23 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 1,770 mm of rain — more than 83% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Days are almost the same length all year: 12 h 07 min of daylight in late June, 12 h 07 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 31 °C, 2 °C warmer than a normal October (29 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan31 °C23 °C93 mm
Feb32 °C23 °C124 mm
Mar31 °C24 °C162 mm
Apr31 °C24 °C166 mm
May30 °C23 °C136 mm
Jun30 °C23 °C100 mm
Jul29 °C23 °C103 mm
Aug29 °C23 °C164 mm
Sep29 °C23 °C197 mm
Oct29 °C23 °C212 mm
Nov30 °C23 °C189 mm
Dec31 °C23 °C125 mm
Whole year30 °C23 °C1,770 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 0.05° N, 18.26° 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 Mbandaka: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.510µg/m³
PM1011µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Mbandaka

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

Moon over Mbandaka

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 06:42 Set 19:23
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 Mbandaka

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

Mbandaka weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Mbandaka, Équateur: 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 26 °C (feels like 35 °C) and the wind blows at 6 km/h.

Expected range today: 22 °C to 30 °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