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Mombasa County · 1,208,333 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 20:51

Clear sky
28°
Clear sky
Feels like 40°C
Wind
11 km/h
Gusts
23 km/h
Humidity
84 %
Pressure
1012 hPa
Clouds
1 %
Storm
No
Rise 05:57 Set 18:12 Day 12 h 14 min UV 6 · High

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Clear sky
Clear sky
28°27°
Feels like 40°
Wind ↑ E 20 km/h
Gusts 26 km/h
Humidity 84 %
21:00
Clear sky
28°
E 11
00:00
Clear sky
26°
NE 10

Mombasa 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)
23°25°28°30°32°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed30°26°Thu 29 Oct: max 30° · min 26° · normal 26.5°Fri 30 Oct: max 30° · min 25° · normal 26.5°Sat 31 Oct: max 29° · min 26° · normal 26.5°Sun 1 Nov: max 29° · min 25° · normal 26.5°Mon 2 Nov: max 29° · min 25° · normal 26.5°Tue 3 Nov: max 29° · min 26° · normal 26.6°Wed 4 Nov: max 30° · min 26° · normal 26.6°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu24°28°32°30°25°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Mombasa climate: what a normal year looks like

The hottest stretch is March, when afternoons average 32 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 22 °C.

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from November to April; the typical peak is 33 °C in February.

Days are almost the same length all year: 11 h 53 min of daylight in late June, 12 h 21 min in late December.

The coming week looks normal for October: forecast highs average 29 °C, against a usual 29 °C.

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan32 °C24 °C33 mm
Feb33 °C24 °C24 mm
Mar33 °C25 °C71 mm
Apr30 °C25 °C129 mm
May29 °C24 °C186 mm
Jun28 °C23 °C80 mm
Jul27 °C22 °C66 mm
Aug27 °C21 °C59 mm
Sep28 °C22 °C54 mm
Oct29 °C23 °C85 mm
Nov30 °C24 °C93 mm
Dec31 °C24 °C77 mm
Whole year30 °C23 °C960 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 4.07° S, 39.66° 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 Mombasa: pollution and pollen

1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.57µg/m³
PM1010µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Mombasa

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

Moon over Mombasa

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 03:22 Set 15:44
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 Mombasa

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

Mombasa weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Mombasa, Mombasa County: 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 28 °C (feels like 40 °C) and the wind blows at 11 km/h.

Expected range today: 26 °C to 30 °C and a dry sky; 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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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations