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Tarawa weather

Gilbert Islands · 40,311 inhabitants · Saturday, November 7 · updated 06:20

Air: Good High storm risk · Today, Tomorrow, Mon

28°

Rain showers

Feels like 40°C

Wind

14 km/h

Gusts

14 km/h

Humidity

79 %

Pressure

1010 hPa

Clouds

25 %

Storm

Moderate

Rise 06:09 Set 18:13 Day 12 h 4 min UV 8 · High

Tarawa 14-day forecast

Trend

Morning

Rain showers

28°

Feels like 40°

Wind ↑ W 14 km/h

Humidity 79 %

💧 3.5 mm

⚡ storm

Afternoon

Rain showers

29°

Feels like 39°

Wind ↑ WSW 16 km/h

Humidity 72 %

💧 2.9 mm

⚡ storm

Evening

Rain showers

29°28°

Feels like 39°

Wind ↑ W 14 km/h

Humidity 71 %

💧 0.5 mm

⚡ storm

12:00

29°

2.4mm

W 12

15:00

29°

0.5mm

WSW 16

18:00

28°

0.5mm

W 7

21:00

29°

WSW 14

00:00

27°

0.1mm

WNW 4

03:00

28°

0.2mm

W 11

06:00

27°

0.2mm

WSW 8

09:00

28°

W 8

Rain radar around Tarawa

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Tarawa, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

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Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

Air you breathe in Tarawa: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.53µg/m³

PM105µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Tarawa 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)

Moon over Tarawa

Waning crescent

6 % illuminated · 27.3 days

Rise 04:11 Set 16:30

Sun 8/11 2%

Mon 9/11 0%

Tue 10/11 1% New moon

Wed 11/11 3%

Thu 12/11 8%

Fri 13/11 15%

Sat 14/11 23%

Sun 15/11 33%

Mon 16/11 43%

Tue 17/11 54% First quarter

Wed 18/11 64%

Thu 19/11 74%

Moonrise and moonset in local time (Pacific/Tarawa); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Sea and tides near Tarawa

Tide station used: Tarawa Bairiki · 4 km away

Tide times in Tarawa

🌊 Sea surface

30.0 °C

satellite, 7/11

Sea state

Smooth

waves 0.5 m

Period

11 s

Swell

0.5 m

FriFri 06/11

High tide 14:59 2.0 m

Low tide 21:16 0.4 m

TodaySat 07/11

High tide 03:10 1.9 m

Low tide 09:21 0.4 m

High tide 15:30 2.1 m

Low tide 21:50 0.4 m

TomorrowSun 08/11

High tide 03:42 1.9 m

Low tide 09:48 0.4 m

High tide 15:59 2.1 m

Low tide 22:22 0.3 m

MonMon 09/11

High tide 04:12 1.8 m

Low tide 10:15 0.4 m

High tide 16:27 2.1 m

Low tide 22:53 0.3 m

Heights above chart datum. Coefficient: 20 for the weakest tides, 120 for the strongest.

Look up a past day in Tarawa

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

Tarawa weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Tarawa, Gilbert Islands: 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 28 °C (feels like 40 °C) and the wind blows at 14 km/h.

Expected range today: 27 °C to 29 °C and around 4 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, plus the tide times for Tarawa Bairiki.

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1124 weather stations