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Asmara weather

Maekel · 563,930 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 19:58

Air: Fair Low storm risk · Sun, Mon, Wed

20°

Clear sky

Feels like 22°C

Wind

15 km/h

Gusts

16 km/h

Humidity

54 %

Pressure

1016 hPa

Clouds

4 %

Storm

Rise 06:19 Set 17:56 Day 11 h 37 min UV 10 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Clear sky

20°17°

Feels like 22°

Wind ↑ NE 15 km/h

Humidity 54 %

21:00

17°

NE 4

00:00

17°

NE 7

Asmara 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)

Asmara climate: what a normal year looks like

The hottest stretch is June, when afternoons average 29 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 12 °C.

The wet season is concentrated from July to September, which brings 54% of the annual total; August by itself averages 248 mm.

A normal year brings roughly 920 mm of rain — less than 56% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 24 °C, 2 °C cooler than a normal October (26 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	23 °C	12 °C	66 mm
Feb	24 °C	13 °C	38 mm
Mar	26 °C	15 °C	47 mm
Apr	27 °C	16 °C	61 mm
May	28 °C	17 °C	48 mm
Jun	29 °C	18 °C	46 mm
Jul	27 °C	18 °C	197 mm
Aug	27 °C	18 °C	248 mm
Sep	28 °C	17 °C	53 mm
Oct	26 °C	15 °C	29 mm
Nov	24 °C	14 °C	36 mm
Dec	23 °C	13 °C	47 mm
Whole year	26 °C	15 °C	920 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 15.34° N, 38.93° 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 Asmara: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.511µg/m³

PM1025µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Asmara

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

Moon over Asmara

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 02:41 Set 16:31

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

Look up a past day in Asmara

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

Asmara weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Asmara, Maekel: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 20 °C (feels like 22 °C) and the wind blows at 15 km/h.

Expected range today: 17 °C to 24 °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.

Other big cities nearby

Mek'ele 213 km 20°

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