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Dire Dawa · 343,000 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 21:07

Air: Poor

19°

Clear sky

Feels like 19°C

Wind

4 km/h

Gusts

4 km/h

Humidity

41 %

Pressure

1018 hPa

Clouds

1 %

Storm

Rise 06:02 Set 17:50 Day 11 h 48 min UV 11 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Clear sky

21°19°

Feels like 21°

Wind ↑ NE 20 km/h

Gusts 37 km/h

Humidity 27 %

21:00

19°

ENE 4

00:00

17°

SSW 7

Dire Dawa 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)

Dire Dawa climate: what a normal year looks like

The hottest stretch is June, when afternoons average 29 °C; the coldest is December, when nights average 13 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 660 mm of rain — less than 78% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Days are almost the same length all year: 12 h 41 min of daylight in late June, 11 h 33 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 26 °C, 2 °C cooler than a normal October (28 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	25 °C	13 °C	22 mm
Feb	27 °C	15 °C	27 mm
Mar	28 °C	17 °C	80 mm
Apr	28 °C	18 °C	116 mm
May	29 °C	18 °C	69 mm
Jun	30 °C	18 °C	21 mm
Jul	28 °C	18 °C	62 mm
Aug	28 °C	18 °C	87 mm
Sep	28 °C	18 °C	73 mm
Oct	28 °C	16 °C	56 mm
Nov	26 °C	14 °C	29 mm
Dec	25 °C	13 °C	17 mm
Whole year	27 °C	16 °C	660 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 9.59° N, 41.87° 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 Dire Dawa: pollution and pollen

4/6

Poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.532µg/m³

PM1051µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Dire Dawa

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

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas

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

No open weather radar covers Dire Dawa yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Dire Dawa

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 02:42 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/Addis_Ababa); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Dire Dawa

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

Dire Dawa weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Dire Dawa, Dire Dawa: 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 19 °C (feels like 19 °C) and the wind blows at 4 km/h.

Expected range today: 17 °C to 26 °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.

Other big cities nearby

Jijiga 106 km 22°

Borama 149 km 23°

Hargeysa 241 km 22°

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