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Blantyre weather

Southern Region · 902,588 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 18:52

Air: Fair Hot · 4 d Moderate storm risk · Today, Wed, Thu

27°

Clear sky

Feels like 30°C

Wind

16 km/h

Gusts

22 km/h

Humidity

48 %

Pressure

1013 hPa

Clouds

17 %

Storm

Rise 05:04 Set 17:42 Day 12 h 38 min UV 4 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Clear sky

24°20°

Feels like 30°

Wind ↑ SE 20 km/h

Gusts 36 km/h

Humidity 71 %

20:00

24°

SSE 20

23:00

20°

SE 16

Blantyre 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)

Blantyre climate: what a normal year looks like

The wet season is concentrated from December to February, which brings 64% of the annual total; January by itself averages 331 mm.

The hottest stretch is November, when afternoons average 31 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 13 °C.

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more in October and November; the typical peak is 31 °C in November.

The coming week looks normal for October: forecast highs average 31 °C, against a usual 31 °C.

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	27 °C	21 °C	331 mm
Feb	27 °C	20 °C	212 mm
Mar	27 °C	20 °C	173 mm
Apr	27 °C	18 °C	58 mm
May	26 °C	15 °C	19 mm
Jun	24 °C	13 °C	16 mm
Jul	23 °C	13 °C	20 mm
Aug	25 °C	14 °C	11 mm
Sep	28 °C	17 °C	11 mm
Oct	31 °C	19 °C	33 mm
Nov	31 °C	21 °C	97 mm
Dec	29 °C	21 °C	237 mm
Whole year	27 °C	18 °C	1,220 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 15.78° S, 35.01° 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 Blantyre: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.514µg/m³

PM1017µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Blantyre

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

Moon over Blantyre

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 05:08 Set 16:37

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/Blantyre); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Blantyre

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

Blantyre weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Blantyre, Southern Region: 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 27 °C (feels like 30 °C) and the wind blows at 16 km/h.

Expected range today: 20 °C to 29 °C and a dry sky; keep an eye on thunderstorms; it will be very hot. 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.

Other big cities nearby

Tete 158 km 34°

Lilongwe 241 km 31°

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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations