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Nakuru County · 570,674 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 20:45

Rain showers
25°
Rain showers
Feels like 28°C
Wind
6 km/h
Gusts
21 km/h
Humidity
47 %
Pressure
1013 hPa
Clouds
65 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:15 Set 18:23 Day 12 h 7 min UV 5 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Rain showers
Rain showers
19°18°
Feels like 19°
Wind ↑ SE 7 km/h
Humidity 61 %
💧 0.3 mm
21:00
Rain showers
18°
0.2mm
NW 3
00:00
Rain showers
16°
0.2mm
W 4

Nakuru forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +1.6° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
11°16°20°25°29°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed27°15°Thu 29 Oct: max 25° · min 16° · normal 18.7°Fri 30 Oct: max 25° · min 15° · normal 18.7°Sat 31 Oct: max 26° · min 13° · normal 18.7°Sun 1 Nov: max 27° · min 15° · normal 18.7°Mon 2 Nov: max 27° · min 13° · normal 18.7°Tue 3 Nov: max 26° · min 14° · normal 18.7°Wed 4 Nov: max 27° · min 15° · normal 18.7°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu12°20°28°27°13°08
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Nakuru 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 (January) average 11 °C.

Day and night differ most in February: 26 °C in the afternoon against 12 °C before dawn, a 14 °C swing.

A normal year brings roughly 1,160 mm of rain — more than 60% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 26 °C, 3 °C warmer than a normal October (23 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan25 °C11 °C38 mm
Feb26 °C12 °C28 mm
Mar26 °C12 °C78 mm
Apr24 °C14 °C170 mm
May23 °C13 °C124 mm
Jun22 °C13 °C81 mm
Jul21 °C12 °C83 mm
Aug22 °C12 °C103 mm
Sep23 °C12 °C84 mm
Oct23 °C12 °C143 mm
Nov22 °C13 °C155 mm
Dec23 °C12 °C70 mm
Whole year23 °C12 °C1,160 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 0.31° S, 36.07° 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 Nakuru: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.512µg/m³
PM1012µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Nakuru

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

Moon over Nakuru

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 03:29 Set 16:08
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 Nakuru

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

Nakuru weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Nakuru, Nakuru 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 25 °C (feels like 28 °C) and the wind blows at 6 km/h.

Expected range today: 16 °C to 25 °C and around 2 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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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations