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Tamale weather

Northern · 464,316 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 19:11

Air: Fair Heatwave risk · 15 d Moderate storm risk · Tomorrow, Sat, Wed

32°

Clear sky

Feels like 42°C

Wind

6 km/h

Gusts

17 km/h

Humidity

61 %

Pressure

1010 hPa

Clouds

17 %

Storm

Rise 05:52 Set 17:41 Day 11 h 48 min UV 11 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Clear sky

32°31°

Feels like 42°

Wind ↑ E 8 km/h

Gusts 17 km/h

Humidity 61 %

21:00

31°

SE 8

Tamale forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +2.7° warmer than usual

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

Hourly detail

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

Tamale climate: what a normal year looks like

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from October to July; the typical peak is 38 °C in March.

The wet season is concentrated from July to September, which brings 63% of the annual total; August by itself averages 227 mm.

The hottest stretch is March, when afternoons average 38 °C; the coldest is August, when nights average 23 °C.

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

Forecast highs for the coming week average 36 °C, 4 °C warmer than a normal October (32 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	34 °C	22 °C	2 mm
Feb	37 °C	25 °C	7 mm
Mar	38 °C	27 °C	24 mm
Apr	37 °C	27 °C	54 mm
May	35 °C	26 °C	74 mm
Jun	32 °C	25 °C	87 mm
Jul	30 °C	24 °C	160 mm
Aug	29 °C	23 °C	227 mm
Sep	30 °C	23 °C	188 mm
Oct	32 °C	24 °C	79 mm
Nov	35 °C	23 °C	9 mm
Dec	34 °C	21 °C	1 mm
Whole year	33 °C	24 °C	910 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 9.40° N, 0.84° 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 Tamale: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.516µg/m³

PM1029µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Tamale

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

Moon over Tamale

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 08:41 Set 22:03

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 Tamale

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

Tamale weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Tamale, Northern: 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 32 °C (feels like 42 °C) and the wind blows at 6 km/h.

Expected range today: 31 °C to 37 °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.

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