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Balbala weather

Djibouti · 554,350 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 20:13

Air: Fair Moderate storm risk · Sat, Sun

29°

Mainly clear

Feels like 32°C

Wind

14 km/h

Gusts

15 km/h

Humidity

38 %

Pressure

1013 hPa

Clouds

21 %

Storm

Rise 05:58 Set 17:43 Day 11 h 44 min UV 10 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Mainly clear

29°27°

Feels like 32°

Wind ↑ E 14 km/h

Humidity 38 %

21:00

27°

NE 1

00:00

26°

ESE 8

Balbala 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)

Balbala climate: what a normal year looks like

A normal year brings roughly 300 mm of rain — less than 94% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from April to October; the typical peak is 38 °C in July.

The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 38 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 21 °C.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 31 °C, 1 °C cooler than a normal October (32 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	26 °C	21 °C	41 mm
Feb	27 °C	22 °C	29 mm
Mar	28 °C	23 °C	35 mm
Apr	30 °C	25 °C	42 mm
May	33 °C	27 °C	18 mm
Jun	37 °C	30 °C	2 mm
Jul	38 °C	30 °C	7 mm
Aug	37 °C	30 °C	16 mm
Sep	36 °C	29 °C	10 mm
Oct	32 °C	26 °C	27 mm
Nov	28 °C	23 °C	37 mm
Dec	27 °C	22 °C	33 mm
Whole year	32 °C	26 °C	300 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 11.56° N, 43.11° 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 Balbala: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.518µg/m³

PM1028µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Balbala

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

Moon over Balbala

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 02:33 Set 16:05

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/Djibouti); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Balbala

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

Balbala weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Balbala, Djibouti: 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 32 °C) and the wind blows at 14 km/h.

Expected range today: 26 °C to 32 °C and a dry sky; keep an eye on thunderstorms. 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