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Lilongwe weather

Central Region · 1,115,815 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 19:57

Air: Moderate Hot · 3 d Low storm risk · Today, Wed

31°

Drizzle

Feels like 36°C

Wind

11 km/h

Gusts

22 km/h

Humidity

41 %

Pressure

1012 hPa

Clouds

89 %

Storm

Low

Rise 05:11 Set 17:45 Day 12 h 34 min UV 6 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Rain showers

24°23°

Feels like 29°

Wind ↑ SE 13 km/h

Gusts 33 km/h

Humidity 63 %

💧 3.8 mm

⚡ storm

20:00

24°

3.8mm

SSE 13

23:00

23°

SE 13

Lilongwe forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +1.8° warmer than usual

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Lilongwe climate: what a normal year looks like

Ranked against the 20 towns of 20,000+ people in Malawi, Lilongwe has the second lowest yearly rainfall.

The wet season is concentrated from December to February, which brings 71% of the annual total; January by itself averages 234 mm.

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

The hottest stretch is November, when afternoons average 30 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 11 °C.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 32 °C, 3 °C warmer than a normal October (29 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	26 °C	18 °C	234 mm
Feb	26 °C	18 °C	180 mm
Mar	26 °C	18 °C	132 mm
Apr	26 °C	16 °C	31 mm
May	25 °C	14 °C	6 mm
Jun	23 °C	12 °C	2 mm
Jul	23 °C	11 °C	3 mm
Aug	25 °C	13 °C	2 mm
Sep	27 °C	15 °C	2 mm
Oct	29 °C	18 °C	13 mm
Nov	30 °C	19 °C	48 mm
Dec	28 °C	19 °C	162 mm
Whole year	26 °C	16 °C	820 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 13.97° S, 33.79° 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 Lilongwe: pollution and pollen

3/6

Moderate

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.522µg/m³

PM1024µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Lilongwe

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

Moon over Lilongwe

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 05:09 Set 16:47

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 Lilongwe

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

Lilongwe weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Lilongwe, Central Region: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “drizzle”, it is 31 °C (feels like 36 °C) and the wind blows at 11 km/h.

Expected range today: 23 °C to 32 °C and around 7 mm of rain; 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

Chipata 128 km 24°

Blantyre 241 km 27°

Tete 244 km 34°

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