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Massawa weather

Northern Red Sea · 23,100 inhabitants · Friday, November 6 · updated 20:57

Air: Moderate Hot · 3 d High storm risk · Sun, Tue, Wed

30°

Clear sky

Feels like 38°C

Wind

4 km/h

Gusts

4 km/h

Humidity

60 %

Pressure

1011 hPa

Clouds

2 %

Storm

Rise 06:20 Set 17:50 Day 11 h 30 min UV 10 · Very high

Massawa 14-day forecast

Trend

Evening

Clear sky

30°

Feels like 35°

Wind ↑ E 6 km/h

Humidity 42 %

21:00

30°

SE 4

00:00

27°

NW 10

Rain radar around Massawa

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Massawa, 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 Massawa: pollution and pollen

3/6

Moderate

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.518µg/m³

PM1041µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Massawa forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +1.8° warmer than usual

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Moon over Massawa

Waning crescent

12 % illuminated · 26.3 days

Rise 03:42 Set 15:48

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 Massawa

Tide station used: Massawa

Tide times in Massawa

🌊 Sea surface

30.6 °C

satellite, 6/11

Sea state

Rippled

waves 0.1 m

Period

3 s

Swell

0.1 m

TodayFri 06/11

Low tide 04:55 0.2 m

High tide 11:06 0.9 m

Low tide 17:26 0.2 m

High tide 23:23 0.9 m

TomorrowSat 07/11

Low tide 05:41 0.1 m

High tide 11:52 1.0 m

Low tide 18:13 0.2 m

SunSun 08/11

High tide 00:07 0.9 m

Low tide 06:24 0.1 m

High tide 12:33 1.0 m

Low tide 18:57 0.2 m

MonMon 09/11

High tide 00:48 0.9 m

Low tide 07:03 0.1 m

High tide 13:12 1.0 m

Low tide 19:37 0.2 m

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

Look up a past day in Massawa

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

Massawa weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Massawa, Northern 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 30 °C (feels like 38 °C) and the wind blows at 4 km/h.

Expected range today: 26 °C to 34 °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, plus the tide times for Massawa.

Other big cities nearby

Asmara 65 km 20°

Mek'ele 235 km 19°

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