11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Mainly clear
20°
Feels like 24°
Wind↑ ENE 12 km/h
Humidity 68 %
Evening
Rain showers
21°
Feels like 25°
Wind↑ NE 15 km/h
Gusts22 km/h
Humidity 62 %
💧 0.6 mm
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Light rain
18°
Feels like 18°
Wind↑ NE 7 km/h
Humidity 80 %
💧 1.8 mm
Evening
Rain showers
19°
Feels like 19°
Wind↑ ENE 8 km/h
Gusts16 km/h
Humidity 77 %
💧 1.4 mm
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Rain showers
21°
Feels like 25°
Wind↑ NNE 10 km/h
Humidity 70 %
💧 0.6 mm
⚡ storm
Evening
Drizzle
22°
Feels like 25°
Wind↑ ENE 12 km/h
Gusts19 km/h
Humidity 62 %
💧 0.9 mm
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Mainly clear
22°
Feels like 26°
Wind↑ NE 13 km/h
Humidity 66 %
💧 0.1 mm
Ruiru forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
▲ This week runs +2.1° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Ruiru 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.
Afternoons climb to 25 °C only in 4 months of the year, with a typical peak of 27 °C in February.
A normal year brings roughly 820 mm of rain — less than 63% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 28 °C, 3 °C warmer than a normal October (25 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
26 °C
14 °C
41 mm
Feb
27 °C
15 °C
31 mm
Mar
27 °C
16 °C
73 mm
Apr
25 °C
16 °C
153 mm
May
24 °C
16 °C
111 mm
Jun
23 °C
14 °C
49 mm
Jul
22 °C
13 °C
24 mm
Aug
23 °C
13 °C
30 mm
Sep
25 °C
14 °C
22 mm
Oct
25 °C
15 °C
69 mm
Nov
24 °C
15 °C
142 mm
Dec
24 °C
15 °C
71 mm
Whole year
24 °C
15 °C
820 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 1.15° S, 36.96° 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 Ruiru: 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 Ruiru
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Ruiru, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
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Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
No open weather radar covers Ruiru yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Ruiru
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 03:27 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 Ruiru
Curious about the weather in Ruiru on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Ruiru weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Ruiru, Kiambu County: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “drizzle”, it is 29 °C (feels like 32 °C) and the wind blows at 15 km/h.
Expected range today: 20 °C to 29 °C and around 17 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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