10-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Partly cloudy
17°
Feels like 17°
Wind↑ NE 9 km/h
Humidity 80 %
Afternoon
Partly cloudy
28°
Feels like 30°
Wind↑ SW 7 km/h
Humidity 40 %
11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
18°
Feels like 18°
Wind↑ NE 9 km/h
Humidity 76 %
Afternoon
Mainly clear
27°
Feels like 30°
Wind↑ WSW 11 km/h
Humidity 46 %
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Rain showers
17°
Feels like 17°
Wind↑ NE 8 km/h
Humidity 86 %
💧 1.2 mm
Afternoon
Overcast
26°
Feels like 30°
Wind↑ WNW 9 km/h
Humidity 49 %
💧 0.1 mm
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
17°
Feels like 17°
Wind↑ NE 6 km/h
Humidity 88 %
💧 2.2 mm
Afternoon
Rain
24°
Feels like 29°
Wind↑ WSW 16 km/h
Humidity 66 %
💧 5.5 mm
⚡ storm
Kisumu 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)
Kisumu 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 28 °C in February, and the coolest nights (July) average 18 °C.
A normal year brings roughly 1,870 mm of rain — more than 86% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.
Days are almost the same length all year: 12 h 07 min of daylight in late June, 12 h 07 min in late December.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 28 °C, 2 °C warmer than a normal October (26 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
27 °C
19 °C
106 mm
Feb
29 °C
19 °C
81 mm
Mar
28 °C
19 °C
174 mm
Apr
26 °C
19 °C
293 mm
May
26 °C
19 °C
216 mm
Jun
25 °C
19 °C
106 mm
Jul
25 °C
18 °C
90 mm
Aug
26 °C
18 °C
102 mm
Sep
26 °C
19 °C
109 mm
Oct
26 °C
19 °C
195 mm
Nov
26 °C
18 °C
237 mm
Dec
26 °C
18 °C
163 mm
Whole year
26 °C
19 °C
1,870 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 0.10° S, 34.76° 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 Kisumu: pollution and pollen
4/6
Poor
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.531µg/m³
PM1032µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Kisumu
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Kisumu, 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 Kisumu yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Kisumu
Waning gibbous
79 % illuminated · 19.3 days
Rise 04:38 Set 17:17
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
Wed11/113%
Moonrise and moonset in local time (Africa/Nairobi); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in Kisumu
Curious about the weather in Kisumu on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Kisumu weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Kisumu, Kisumu 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 18 °C (feels like 18 °C) and the wind blows at 7 km/h.
Expected range today: 17 °C to 25 °C and around 24 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.
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