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Tripoli · 1,302,947 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 18:49

Partly cloudy
22°
Partly cloudy
Feels like 26°C
Wind
6 km/h
Gusts
20 km/h
Humidity
68 %
Pressure
1018 hPa
Clouds
68 %
Storm
No
Rise 07:22 Set 18:19 Day 10 h 56 min UV 2 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
21°20°
Feels like 26°
Wind ↑ SSE 4 km/h
Humidity 75 %
20:00
Partly cloudy
21°
NE 3
23:00
Mainly clear
20°
SSE 4

Tripoli forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▼ This week runs -2.0° cooler than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
14°17°20°22°25°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed23°20°Thu 29 Oct: max 22° · min 18° · normal 22.1°Fri 30 Oct: max 23° · min 17° · normal 22.0°Sat 31 Oct: max 21° · min 18° · normal 21.9°Sun 1 Nov: max 20° · min 18° · normal 21.9°Mon 2 Nov: max 23° · min 16° · normal 21.7°Tue 3 Nov: max 21° · min 17° · normal 21.6°Wed 4 Nov: max 23° · min 20° · normal 21.5°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu15°20°25°23°16°03
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Tripoli climate: what a normal year looks like

A normal year brings roughly 200 mm of rain — less than 96% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

From May to August, rain is scarce: under 10 mm a month on average.

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from June to September; the typical peak is 34 °C in August.

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 34 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 10 °C.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 22 °C, 7 °C cooler than a normal October (29 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan17 °C10 °C37 mm
Feb18 °C10 °C32 mm
Mar22 °C13 °C21 mm
Apr25 °C15 °C12 mm
May28 °C18 °C5 mm
Jun32 °C22 °C1 mm
Jul33 °C23 °C1 mm
Aug34 °C24 °C1 mm
Sep32 °C23 °C11 mm
Oct29 °C20 °C20 mm
Nov24 °C16 °C25 mm
Dec19 °C12 °C32 mm
Whole year26 °C17 °C200 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 32.89° N, 13.19° 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 Tripoli: pollution and pollen

1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.55µg/m³
PM109µg/m³
O₃50µg/m³
NO₂32µg/m³
SO₂6µg/m³

Pollen

AlderNone
BirchNone
GrassNone
MugwortNone
OliveNone
RagweedNone

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Tripoli

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

Moon over Tripoli

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 04:39 Set 20:08
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/Tripoli); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Tripoli

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

Tripoli weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Tripoli, Tripoli: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “partly cloudy”, it is 22 °C (feels like 26 °C) and the wind blows at 6 km/h.

Expected range today: 18 °C to 22 °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