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Tshikapa weather

Kasai · 634,529 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 19:17

Air: Moderate Hot · 2 d Moderate storm risk · Sat, Sun, Tue

29°

Mainly clear

Feels like 35°C

Wind

17 km/h

Gusts

23 km/h

Humidity

50 %

Pressure

1009 hPa

Clouds

49 %

Storm

Rise 06:10 Set 18:30 Day 12 h 19 min UV 5 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Mainly clear

24°21°

Feels like 32°

Wind ↑ NNE 5 km/h

Humidity 78 %

20:00

24°

NNE 5

23:00

21°

NNW 2

Tshikapa 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)

Tshikapa 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 33 °C in July, and the coolest nights (July) average 20 °C.

Day and night differ most in July: 33 °C in the afternoon against 20 °C before dawn, a 13 °C swing.

A normal year brings roughly 1,340 mm of rain — more than 69% 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	30 °C	21 °C	149 mm
Feb	30 °C	22 °C	138 mm
Mar	30 °C	22 °C	171 mm
Apr	30 °C	22 °C	163 mm
May	31 °C	21 °C	46 mm
Jun	32 °C	20 °C	7 mm
Jul	33 °C	20 °C	3 mm
Aug	32 °C	21 °C	40 mm
Sep	31 °C	22 °C	102 mm
Oct	30 °C	21 °C	148 mm
Nov	29 °C	21 °C	189 mm
Dec	29 °C	21 °C	183 mm
Whole year	31 °C	21 °C	1,340 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 6.42° S, 20.80° 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 Tshikapa: pollution and pollen

3/6

Moderate

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.520µg/m³

PM1020µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Tshikapa

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

Moon over Tshikapa

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 05:46 Set 17:58

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 Tshikapa

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

Tshikapa weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Tshikapa, Kasai: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “mainly clear”, it is 29 °C (feels like 35 °C) and the wind blows at 17 km/h.

Expected range today: 21 °C to 29 °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

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