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Maputo City · 1,254,837 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 20:32

Air: Good Very hot · 3 d

23°

Clear sky

Feels like 25°C

Wind

20 km/h

Gusts

24 km/h

Humidity

49 %

Pressure

1019 hPa

Clouds

5 %

Storm

Rise 05:02 Set 18:04 Day 13 h 1 min UV 11 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Mainly clear

21°19°

Feels like 25°

Wind ↑ ESE 14 km/h

Humidity 66 %

20:00

21°

ESE 14

23:00

19°

S 7

Maputo 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)

Maputo climate: what a normal year looks like

The hottest stretch is February, when afternoons average 30 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 16 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 720 mm of rain — less than 71% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

From 10 h 30 min of daylight in late June to 13 h 46 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 29 °C, 2 °C warmer than a normal October (27 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	29 °C	24 °C	123 mm
Feb	30 °C	24 °C	104 mm
Mar	29 °C	23 °C	81 mm
Apr	28 °C	21 °C	48 mm
May	27 °C	19 °C	26 mm
Jun	25 °C	16 °C	15 mm
Jul	24 °C	16 °C	15 mm
Aug	25 °C	17 °C	16 mm
Sep	27 °C	19 °C	34 mm
Oct	27 °C	20 °C	56 mm
Nov	28 °C	21 °C	96 mm
Dec	29 °C	23 °C	110 mm
Whole year	27 °C	20 °C	720 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 25.98° S, 32.57° 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 Maputo: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.56µg/m³

PM108µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Maputo

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

Moon over Maputo

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 05:45 Set 16:21

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

Look up a past day in Maputo

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

Maputo weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Maputo, Maputo City: 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 23 °C (feels like 25 °C) and the wind blows at 20 km/h.

Expected range today: 19 °C to 27 °C and a dry sky; 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.

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