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Eldoret weather

Uasin Gishu County · 475,716 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 20:40

Raining now Air: Fair Low storm risk · Today, Thu

24°

Rain showers

Feels like 26°C

Wind

11 km/h

Gusts

20 km/h

Humidity

43 %

Pressure

1013 hPa

Clouds

39 %

Storm

Rise 06:19 Set 18:25 Day 12 h 6 min UV 10 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Rain showers

18°16°

Feels like 18°

Wind ↑ ENE 4 km/h

Gusts 14 km/h

Humidity 77 %

💧 4.7 mm

21:00

16°

3.9mm

ENE 4

00:00

15°

0.1mm

ENE 8

Eldoret forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +1.9° warmer than usual

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

Hourly detail

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

Eldoret climate: what a normal year looks like

The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 21 °C in July to 26 °C in March, and the coolest nights (August) average 12 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 2,010 mm of rain — more than 88% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Day and night differ most in February: 26 °C in the afternoon against 13 °C before dawn, a 13 °C swing.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 24 °C, 1 °C warmer than a normal October (23 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	25 °C	12 °C	53 mm
Feb	26 °C	13 °C	47 mm
Mar	26 °C	13 °C	99 mm
Apr	24 °C	14 °C	196 mm
May	23 °C	13 °C	244 mm
Jun	22 °C	12 °C	233 mm
Jul	21 °C	12 °C	260 mm
Aug	21 °C	12 °C	311 mm
Sep	22 °C	12 °C	201 mm
Oct	23 °C	12 °C	172 mm
Nov	22 °C	13 °C	126 mm
Dec	24 °C	12 °C	68 mm
Whole year	23 °C	12 °C	2,010 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 0.52° N, 35.27° 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 Eldoret: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.513µg/m³

PM1014µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Eldoret

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

Moon over Eldoret

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 03:30 Set 16:13

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

Look up a past day in Eldoret

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

Eldoret weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Eldoret, Uasin Gishu County: 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 24 °C (feels like 26 °C) and the wind blows at 11 km/h.

Expected range today: 15 °C to 24 °C and around 12 mm of rain; 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.

Other big cities nearby

Kakamega 63 km 25°

Kisumu 89 km 25°

Nakuru 128 km 25°

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