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Mbuji-Mayi weather

East Kasai · 2,101,332 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 19:18

Air: Poor Hot · 3 d Moderate storm risk · Today, Sat, Mon

26°

Drizzle

Feels like 33°C

Wind

7 km/h

Gusts

17 km/h

Humidity

64 %

Pressure

1010 hPa

Clouds

97 %

Storm

Low

Rise 05:59 Set 18:18 Day 12 h 18 min UV 4 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Rain showers

24°22°

Feels like 31°

Wind ↑ NNW 5 km/h

Gusts 13 km/h

Humidity 77 %

💧 0.3 mm

20:00

24°

0.3mm

NNW 5

23:00

22°

NE 3

Mbuji-Mayi 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)

Mbuji-Mayi 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 November to 32 °C in July, and the coolest nights (July) average 19 °C.

Day and night differ most in July: 32 °C in the afternoon against 19 °C before dawn, a 13 °C swing.

A normal year brings roughly 1,300 mm of rain — more than 67% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 32 °C, 2 °C warmer than a normal October (30 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	29 °C	21 °C	138 mm
Feb	31 °C	21 °C	126 mm
Mar	31 °C	21 °C	178 mm
Apr	31 °C	21 °C	150 mm
May	32 °C	21 °C	41 mm
Jun	32 °C	19 °C	7 mm
Jul	32 °C	19 °C	3 mm
Aug	32 °C	20 °C	36 mm
Sep	30 °C	21 °C	110 mm
Oct	30 °C	21 °C	160 mm
Nov	29 °C	21 °C	182 mm
Dec	29 °C	21 °C	169 mm
Whole year	31 °C	20 °C	1,300 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 6.14° S, 23.59° 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 Mbuji-Mayi: pollution and pollen

4/6

Poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.527µg/m³

PM1028µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Mbuji-Mayi

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

Moon over Mbuji-Mayi

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 05:34 Set 17:47

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 Mbuji-Mayi

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

Mbuji-Mayi weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Mbuji-Mayi, East Kasai: 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 26 °C (feels like 33 °C) and the wind blows at 7 km/h.

Expected range today: 22 °C to 28 °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.

Other big cities nearby

Kananga 132 km 29°

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