11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Mainly clear
15°
Feels like 15°
Wind↑ E 9 km/h
Humidity 84 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
29°
Feels like 31°
Wind↑ NNE 14 km/h
Humidity 33 %
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Mainly clear
16°
Feels like 16°
Wind↑ E 12 km/h
Gusts18 km/h
Humidity 80 %
Afternoon
Mainly clear
26°
Feels like 30°
Wind↑ W 13 km/h
Humidity 50 %
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Rain showers
15°
Feels like 15°
Wind↑ E 10 km/h
Humidity 77 %
💧 0.4 mm
Afternoon
Mainly clear
26°
Feels like 29°
Wind↑ WNW 14 km/h
Humidity 51 %
💧 0.1 mm
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Rain showers
16°
Feels like 16°
Wind↑ ESE 7 km/h
Humidity 92 %
💧 2.6 mm
Afternoon
Rain
23°
Feels like 28°
Wind↑ WSW 14 km/h
Humidity 72 %
💧 7.2 mm
⚡ storm
Kakamega 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)
Kakamega climate: what a normal year looks like
The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 25 °C in July to 30 °C in February, and the coolest nights (July) average 15 °C.
A normal year brings roughly 1,630 mm of rain — more than 80% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.
Day and night differ most in February: 30 °C in the afternoon against 16 °C before dawn, a 14 °C swing.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 28 °C, 1 °C warmer than a normal October (27 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
28 °C
16 °C
86 mm
Feb
30 °C
16 °C
70 mm
Mar
29 °C
16 °C
141 mm
Apr
27 °C
17 °C
227 mm
May
26 °C
16 °C
193 mm
Jun
25 °C
16 °C
110 mm
Jul
25 °C
15 °C
104 mm
Aug
26 °C
15 °C
111 mm
Sep
26 °C
16 °C
106 mm
Oct
27 °C
16 °C
167 mm
Nov
27 °C
16 °C
190 mm
Dec
27 °C
16 °C
127 mm
Whole year
27 °C
16 °C
1,630 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 0.28° N, 34.75° 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 Kakamega: pollution and pollen
4/6
Poor
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.526µg/m³
PM1027µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Kakamega
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Kakamega, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
No open weather radar covers Kakamega yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Kakamega
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 03:33 Set 16:14
Fri30/1079%
Sat31/1069%
Sun1/1159%
Mon2/1149%Last quarter
Tue3/1138%
Wed4/1128%
Thu5/1119%
Fri6/1112%
Sat7/116%
Sun8/112%
Mon9/110%
Tue10/111%New moon
Moonrise and moonset in local time (Africa/Nairobi); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in Kakamega
Curious about the weather in Kakamega on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Kakamega weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Kakamega, Kakamega 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 19 °C (feels like 19 °C) and the wind blows at 3 km/h.
Expected range today: 17 °C to 26 °C and around 7 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.
Use the Kakamega forecast in your own website or app: one JSON call returns weather, air quality, tides and sun and moon times. The free key needs no card.
