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Benghazi weather

Banghazi · 757,490 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 20:31

Mainly clear
22°
Mainly clear
Feels like 25°C
Wind
12 km/h
Gusts
24 km/h
Humidity
56 %
Pressure
1018 hPa
Clouds
41 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:54 Set 17:52 Day 10 h 58 min UV 3 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
20°
Feels like 25°
Wind ↑ NNW 11 km/h
Gusts 25 km/h
Humidity 73 %
20:00
Partly cloudy
20°
NNW 11
23:00
Partly cloudy
20°
NNE 8

Benghazi 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)
15°18°20°23°25°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed23°19°Thu 29 Oct: max 23° · min 20° · normal 22.1°Fri 30 Oct: max 21° · min 17° · normal 21.9°Sat 31 Oct: max 20° · min 18° · normal 21.8°Sun 1 Nov: max 22° · min 18° · normal 21.8°Mon 2 Nov: max 23° · min 19° · normal 21.6°Tue 3 Nov: max 23° · min 20° · normal 21.5°Wed 4 Nov: max 23° · min 19° · normal 21.3°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu16°21°25°23°17°04
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Benghazi climate: what a normal year looks like

A normal year brings roughly 190 mm of rain — less than 96% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

The wet season is concentrated from December to February, which brings 65% of the annual total; December by itself averages 46 mm.

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 30 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 12 °C.

Typical highs of 30 °C or more are reached in August only, at 30 °C.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 22 °C, 5 °C cooler than a normal October (27 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan17 °C12 °C45 mm
Feb17 °C12 °C35 mm
Mar19 °C13 °C19 mm
Apr22 °C16 °C6 mm
May26 °C18 °C4 mm
Jun28 °C21 °C1 mm
Jul30 °C23 °C0 mm
Aug30 °C24 °C1 mm
Sep30 °C23 °C3 mm
Oct27 °C20 °C13 mm
Nov22 °C16 °C22 mm
Dec18 °C13 °C47 mm
Whole year24 °C18 °C190 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 32.11° N, 20.07° 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 Benghazi: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.55µg/m³
PM1015µg/m³
O₃86µg/m³
NO₂6µg/m³
SO₂1µg/m³

Pollen

AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Benghazi

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

Moon over Benghazi

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 04:13 Set 19:37
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/Tripoli); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Benghazi

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

Benghazi weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Benghazi, Banghazi: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “mainly clear”, it is 22 °C (feels like 25 °C) and the wind blows at 12 km/h.

Expected range today: 20 °C to 23 °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