11-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↑ NE 15 km/h
Gusts36 km/h
Humidity 88 %
💧 0.2 mm
Afternoon
Overcast
25°
Feels like 26°
Wind↑ E 20 km/h
Humidity 40 %
💧 0.1 mm
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
16°
Feels like 16°
Wind↑ NE 14 km/h
Gusts34 km/h
Humidity 92 %
💧 1.4 mm
Afternoon
Mainly clear
27°
Feels like 27°
Wind↑ E 19 km/h
Humidity 30 %
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
16°
Feels like 16°
Wind↑ NNE 9 km/h
Gusts25 km/h
Humidity 82 %
💧 0.1 mm
Afternoon
Mainly clear
28°
Feels like 28°
Wind↑ E 18 km/h
Humidity 25 %
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↑ NNE 8 km/h
Gusts20 km/h
Humidity 87 %
💧 4.6 mm
Afternoon
Light rain
26°
Feels like 27°
Wind↑ ENE 17 km/h
Humidity 39 %
💧 1.1 mm
⚡ storm
Nairobi 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)
Nairobi climate: what a normal year looks like
The hottest stretch is March, when afternoons average 27 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 13 °C.
A normal year brings roughly 680 mm of rain — less than 76% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.
Days are almost the same length all year: 12 h 02 min of daylight in late June, 12 h 11 min in late December.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 27 °C, 1 °C warmer than a normal October (26 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
26 °C
15 °C
39 mm
Feb
27 °C
15 °C
31 mm
Mar
27 °C
16 °C
65 mm
Apr
25 °C
16 °C
127 mm
May
24 °C
16 °C
96 mm
Jun
23 °C
14 °C
45 mm
Jul
22 °C
13 °C
19 mm
Aug
23 °C
13 °C
25 mm
Sep
25 °C
14 °C
20 mm
Oct
26 °C
15 °C
49 mm
Nov
24 °C
15 °C
104 mm
Dec
25 °C
15 °C
58 mm
Whole year
25 °C
15 °C
680 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 1.28° S, 36.82° 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 Nairobi: pollution and pollen
1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.54µg/m³
PM104µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Nairobi
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Nairobi, 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 Nairobi yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Nairobi
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 03:28 Set 16:02
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 Nairobi
Curious about the weather in Nairobi on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Nairobi weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Nairobi, Nairobi 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 21 °C (feels like 25 °C) and the wind blows at 13 km/h.
Expected range today: 17 °C to 28 °C and around 8 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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