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Maseru weather

Maseru District · 359,753 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 20:35

Clear sky
28°
Clear sky
Feels like 28°C
Wind
18 km/h
Gusts
18 km/h
Humidity
15 %
Pressure
1012 hPa
Clouds
0 %
Storm
No
Rise 05:18 Set 18:28 Day 13 h 10 min UV 8 · High

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Clear sky
Clear sky
19°18°
Feels like 19°
Wind ↑ SSE 5 km/h
Humidity 31 %
20:00
Clear sky
18°
SSE 5
23:00
Clear sky
19°
SSW 4

Maseru forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +3.1° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
10°16°22°28°34°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed28°13°Thu 29 Oct: max 28° · min 18° · normal 18.4°Fri 30 Oct: max 31° · min 12° · normal 18.4°Sat 31 Oct: max 32° · min 15° · normal 18.5°Sun 1 Nov: max 29° · min 17° · normal 18.5°Mon 2 Nov: max 25° · min 14° · normal 18.5°Tue 3 Nov: max 29° · min 12° · normal 18.5°Wed 4 Nov: max 28° · min 13° · normal 18.6°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu10°22°34°32°12°011
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Maseru climate: what a normal year looks like

Ranked against the 10 towns of 20,000+ people in Lesotho, Maseru has the second highest mean temperature.

Day and night differ most in August: 19 °C in the afternoon against 2 °C before dawn, a 17 °C swing.

Nights typically freeze in June and July, the coldest averaging −1 °C in July.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 29 °C, 4 °C warmer than a normal October (25 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan28 °C15 °C147 mm
Feb27 °C14 °C121 mm
Mar25 °C12 °C111 mm
Apr22 °C8 °C72 mm
May19 °C3 °C31 mm
Jun16 °C−1 °C18 mm
Jul15 °C−1 °C12 mm
Aug19 °C2 °C27 mm
Sep23 °C7 °C26 mm
Oct25 °C10 °C87 mm
Nov26 °C11 °C115 mm
Dec27 °C13 °C145 mm
Whole year22 °C8 °C910 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 29.32° S, 27.48° 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 Maseru: pollution and pollen

1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.59µg/m³
PM1010µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Maseru

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

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas
Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Maseru yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Maseru

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 06:16 Set 16:33
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/Maseru); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Maseru

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

Maseru weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Maseru, Maseru District: 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 28 °C) and the wind blows at 18 km/h.

Expected range today: 18 °C to 28 °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