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Kumasi weather

Ashanti · 2,544,530 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 19:07

Air: Fair Hot · 1 d Moderate storm risk · Today, Tomorrow, Sat

27°

Rain showers

Feels like 39°C

Wind

3 km/h

Gusts

5 km/h

Humidity

84 %

Pressure

1012 hPa

Clouds

1 %

Storm

Low

Rise 05:53 Set 17:47 Day 11 h 54 min UV 8 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Rain showers

27°24°

Feels like 39°

Wind ↑ S 3 km/h

Humidity 84 %

💧 0.2 mm

⚡ storm

21:00

24°

SE 3

Kumasi 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)

Kumasi climate: what a normal year looks like

The hottest stretch is February, when afternoons average 34 °C; the coldest is August, when nights average 22 °C.

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from November to May; the typical peak is 34 °C in February.

Days are almost the same length all year: 12 h 30 min of daylight in late June, 11 h 44 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 32 °C, 2 °C warmer than a normal October (30 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	33 °C	22 °C	22 mm
Feb	34 °C	24 °C	44 mm
Mar	33 °C	24 °C	99 mm
Apr	32 °C	24 °C	104 mm
May	31 °C	24 °C	124 mm
Jun	29 °C	23 °C	141 mm
Jul	28 °C	22 °C	116 mm
Aug	28 °C	22 °C	102 mm
Sep	29 °C	23 °C	145 mm
Oct	30 °C	23 °C	130 mm
Nov	31 °C	22 °C	65 mm
Dec	31 °C	22 °C	25 mm
Whole year	31 °C	23 °C	1,120 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 6.69° N, 1.62° 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 Kumasi: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.511µg/m³

PM1014µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Kumasi

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

Moon over Kumasi

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 08:51 Set 22:01

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/Accra); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Kumasi

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

Kumasi weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Kumasi, Ashanti: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “rain showers”, it is 27 °C (feels like 39 °C) and the wind blows at 3 km/h.

Expected range today: 24 °C to 32 °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.

Other big cities nearby

Takoradi 200 km 30°

Accra 202 km 28°

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