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Nouakchott weather

1,184,530 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 20:09

Air: Poor Moderate storm risk · Mon

30°

Partly cloudy

Feels like 33°C

Wind

13 km/h

Gusts

14 km/h

Humidity

35 %

Pressure

1013 hPa

Clouds

56 %

Storm

Rise 07:02 Set 18:33 Day 11 h 31 min UV 3 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Partly cloudy

31°30°

Feels like 36°

Wind ↑ NNE 13 km/h

Gusts 20 km/h

Humidity 39 %

21:00

30°

NE 13

Nouakchott 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)

Nouakchott climate: what a normal year looks like

The wet season is concentrated from August to October, which brings 77% of the annual total; September by itself averages 19 mm.

From October to July, rain is scarce: under 10 mm a month on average.

Swimmers find the warmest sea in September (27 °C) and the coolest in April (18 °C).

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from April to November; the typical peak is 34 °C in October.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 30 °C, 4 °C cooler than a normal October (34 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall	Sea
Jan	26 °C	17 °C	2 mm	19 °C
Feb	28 °C	18 °C	1 mm	18 °C
Mar	29 °C	19 °C	1 mm	18 °C
Apr	30 °C	20 °C	0 mm	18 °C
May	31 °C	21 °C	0 mm	18 °C
Jun	32 °C	23 °C	0 mm	21 °C
Jul	30 °C	24 °C	2 mm	25 °C
Aug	31 °C	26 °C	13 mm	27 °C
Sep	33 °C	27 °C	19 mm	27 °C
Oct	34 °C	25 °C	7 mm	26 °C
Nov	31 °C	21 °C	1 mm	23 °C
Dec	27 °C	18 °C	4 mm	21 °C
Whole year	30 °C	22 °C	50 mm	22 °C

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 18.09° N, 15.98° W, 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 Nouakchott: pollution and pollen

4/6

Poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.524µg/m³

PM1096µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Nouakchott

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

Moon over Nouakchott

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 09:24 Set 23:27

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

Sea and tides near Nouakchott

Tide station used: Nouakchott · 3 km away

🌊 Sea surface

26.1 °C

satellite, 29/10

Sea state

Smooth

waves 0.9 m

Period

13 s

Swell

0.8 m

TodayThu 29/10

Low tide 05:27 0.3 m

High tide 11:52 1.4 m

Low tide 17:38 0.4 m

TomorrowFri 30/10

High tide 00:15 1.5 m

Low tide 06:17 0.4 m

High tide 12:49 1.3 m

Low tide 18:25 0.5 m

SatSat 31/10

High tide 01:11 1.5 m

Low tide 07:17 0.4 m

High tide 13:54 1.2 m

Low tide 19:20 0.6 m

SunSun 01/11

High tide 02:14 1.4 m

Low tide 08:26 0.5 m

High tide 15:02 1.1 m

Low tide 20:26 0.7 m

Indicative heights above chart datum. Coefficient: 20 for the weakest tides, 120 for the strongest.

Look up a past day in Nouakchott

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

Nouakchott weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Nouakchott: 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 30 °C (feels like 33 °C) and the wind blows at 13 km/h.

Expected range today: 30 °C to 32 °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, plus the tide times for Nouakchott.

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