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Serekunda weather

Banjul · 340,000 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 19:09

Mainly clear
30°
Mainly clear
Feels like 41°C
Wind
15 km/h
Gusts
20 km/h
Humidity
73 %
Pressure
1010 hPa
Clouds
25 %
Storm
No
Rise 07:00 Set 18:40 Day 11 h 40 min UV 3 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
30°28°
Feels like 41°
Wind ↑ WNW 17 km/h
Humidity 73 %
21:00
Partly cloudy
28°
W 17

Serekunda 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)
24°26°28°30°32°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed30°27°Thu 29 Oct: max 30° · min 28° · normal 27.9°Fri 30 Oct: max 30° · min 28° · normal 27.9°Sat 31 Oct: max 29° · min 27° · normal 27.8°Sun 1 Nov: max 29° · min 26° · normal 27.8°Mon 2 Nov: max 29° · min 27° · normal 27.8°Tue 3 Nov: max 29° · min 27° · normal 27.8°Wed 4 Nov: max 30° · min 27° · normal 27.7°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu25°29°32°31°26°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Serekunda climate: what a normal year looks like

The wet season is concentrated from July to September, which brings 88% of the annual total; August by itself averages 273 mm.

From November to May, rain is scarce: under 10 mm a month on average.

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more in 8 months of the year; the typical peak is 32 °C in November.

The hottest stretch is October, when afternoons average 31 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 20 °C.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 29 °C, 2 °C cooler than a normal October (31 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan30 °C20 °C2 mm
Feb31 °C21 °C1 mm
Mar31 °C21 °C0 mm
Apr31 °C22 °C0 mm
May30 °C23 °C1 mm
Jun30 °C25 °C15 mm
Jul30 °C26 °C149 mm
Aug30 °C25 °C273 mm
Sep30 °C26 °C207 mm
Oct31 °C26 °C64 mm
Nov32 °C24 °C3 mm
Dec30 °C21 °C2 mm
Whole year30 °C23 °C720 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 13.44° N, 16.68° W, 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 Serekunda: pollution and pollen

4/6
Poor
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.522µg/m³
PM1058µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Serekunda

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

Moon over Serekunda

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 09:38 Set 23:19
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/Banjul); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Serekunda

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

Serekunda weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Serekunda, Banjul: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “mainly clear”, it is 30 °C (feels like 41 °C) and the wind blows at 15 km/h.

Expected range today: 28 °C to 30 °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.

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