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Assab weather

Southern Red Sea · 21,300 inhabitants · Friday, November 6 · updated 20:57

Clear sky
28°
Clear sky
Feels like 39°C
Wind
31 km/h
Gusts
57 km/h
Humidity
73 %
Pressure
1013 hPa
Clouds
0 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:04 Set 17:41 Day 11 h 36 min UV 10 · Very high

Assab 14-day forecast

Trend
Evening
Clear sky
Clear sky
29°28°
Feels like 38°
Wind ↑ SE 37 km/h
Gusts 57 km/h
Humidity 66 %
21:00
Clear sky
28°
SE 31
00:00
Clear sky
27°
SSE 41

Rain radar around Assab

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Assab, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

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Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

Air you breathe in Assab: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.513µg/m³
PM1022µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Assab 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)
25°27°29°31°33°TodayThuFriSatSunMonTue31°27°Wed 4 Nov: max 30° · min 27° · normal 28.5°Thu 5 Nov: max 30° · min 27° · normal 28.5°Fri 6 Nov: max 31° · min 27° · normal 28.4°Sat 7 Nov: max 31° · min 27° · normal 28.3°Sun 8 Nov: max 31° · min 27° · normal 28.2°Mon 9 Nov: max 31° · min 27° · normal 28.2°Tue 10 Nov: max 31° · min 27° · normal 28.1°

Hourly detail

FriSatSunMonTueWedThuFri25°29°32°31°26°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Moon over Assab

Waning crescent
12 % illuminated · 26.3 days
Rise 03:28 Set 15:36
Sat 7/11 6%
Sun 8/11 2%
Mon 9/11 0%
Tue 10/11 1% New moon
Wed 11/11 3%
Thu 12/11 8%
Fri 13/11 15%
Sat 14/11 23%
Sun 15/11 33%
Mon 16/11 43%
Tue 17/11 54% First quarter
Wed 18/11 64%

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Africa/Asmara); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Sea and tides near Assab

Tide station used: Assab

Tide times in Assab
🌊 Sea surface
27.2 °C
satellite, 6/11
Sea state
Smooth
waves 0.8 m
Period
4 s
Swell
0.0 m
TodayFri 06/11
Low tide 14:04 0.2 m
High tide 23:24 0.7 m
TomorrowSat 07/11
Low tide 14:00 0.2 m
SunSun 08/11
High tide 00:38 0.7 m
Low tide 13:55 0.2 m
MonMon 09/11
High tide 01:52 0.7 m
Low tide 13:40 0.2 m

Heights above chart datum. Coefficient: 20 for the weakest tides, 120 for the strongest.

Look up a past day in Assab

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

Assab weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Assab, Southern Red Sea: 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 28 °C (feels like 39 °C) and the wind blows at 31 km/h.

Expected range today: 27 °C to 31 °C and a dry sky. 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, plus the tide times for Assab.

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1124 weather stations