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Jijiga weather

Somali · 483,000 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 20:00

Air: Fair

22°

Clear sky

Feels like 22°C

Wind

24 km/h

Gusts

36 km/h

Humidity

33 %

Pressure

1015 hPa

Clouds

1 %

Storm

Rise 05:58 Set 17:47 Day 11 h 48 min UV 11 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Clear sky

22°19°

Feels like 22°

Wind ↑ ENE 24 km/h

Gusts 36 km/h

Humidity 33 %

21:00

19°

NE 11

00:00

17°

NNE 13

Jijiga 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)

Jijiga climate: what a normal year looks like

The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 24 °C in July to 28 °C in March, and the coolest nights (December) average 12 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 450 mm of rain — less than 88% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

From December to February, rain is scarce: under 10 mm a month on average.

Day and night differ most in February: 27 °C in the afternoon against 14 °C before dawn, a 13 °C swing.

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

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	26 °C	12 °C	8 mm
Feb	27 °C	14 °C	10 mm
Mar	28 °C	16 °C	37 mm
Apr	26 °C	16 °C	83 mm
May	26 °C	16 °C	87 mm
Jun	25 °C	16 °C	29 mm
Jul	24 °C	15 °C	36 mm
Aug	24 °C	16 °C	40 mm
Sep	25 °C	16 °C	41 mm
Oct	26 °C	14 °C	54 mm
Nov	25 °C	13 °C	19 mm
Dec	25 °C	12 °C	10 mm
Whole year	26 °C	15 °C	450 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 9.35° N, 42.80° 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 Jijiga: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.515µg/m³

PM1016µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Jijiga

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

Moon over Jijiga

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 02:39 Set 16:01

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 Jijiga

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

Jijiga weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Jijiga, Somali: 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 22 °C (feels like 22 °C) and the wind blows at 24 km/h.

Expected range today: 17 °C to 28 °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.

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