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Matola weather

Maputo Province · 1,198,988 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 21:03

Air: Good Very hot · 5 d Low storm risk · Thu

22°

Clear sky

Feels like 25°C

Wind

15 km/h

Gusts

21 km/h

Humidity

65 %

Pressure

1022 hPa

Clouds

1 %

Storm

Rise 05:03 Set 18:04 Day 13 h 1 min UV 10 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Clear sky

22°19°

Feels like 25°

Wind ↑ ESE 15 km/h

Gusts 21 km/h

Humidity 65 %

23:00

19°

SSE 7

Matola 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)

Matola climate: what a normal year looks like

Swimmers find the warmest sea in February (28 °C) and the coolest in August (22 °C).

The hottest stretch is February, when afternoons average 30 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 15 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 710 mm of rain — less than 72% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 29 °C, 1 °C warmer than a normal October (28 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall	Sea
Jan	29 °C	23 °C	122 mm	27 °C
Feb	30 °C	24 °C	103 mm	28 °C
Mar	29 °C	23 °C	80 mm	27 °C
Apr	28 °C	21 °C	47 mm	26 °C
May	27 °C	18 °C	25 mm	24 °C
Jun	26 °C	16 °C	14 mm	23 °C
Jul	25 °C	15 °C	13 mm	22 °C
Aug	26 °C	17 °C	15 mm	22 °C
Sep	27 °C	19 °C	33 mm	22 °C
Oct	28 °C	20 °C	55 mm	23 °C
Nov	28 °C	21 °C	96 mm	25 °C
Dec	29 °C	23 °C	111 mm	26 °C
Whole year	27 °C	20 °C	710 mm	25 °C

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 25.96° S, 32.46° 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 Matola: 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 Matola

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

Moon over Matola

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 05:45 Set 16:22

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.

Sea and tides near Matola

Tide station used: Matola

🌊 Sea surface

24.8 °C

satellite, 29/10

Sea state

Smooth

waves 0.7 m

Period

10 s

Swell

0.0 m

TodayThu 29/10

High tide 06:07 3.2 m

Low tide 12:18 0.5 m

High tide 18:25 3.3 m

TomorrowFri 30/10

Low tide 00:39 0.6 m

High tide 06:42 3.0 m

Low tide 12:53 0.7 m

High tide 18:58 3.0 m

SatSat 31/10

Low tide 01:13 0.8 m

High tide 07:18 2.8 m

Low tide 13:28 1.0 m

High tide 19:32 2.7 m

SunSun 01/11

Low tide 01:54 1.1 m

High tide 08:03 2.6 m

Low tide 14:19 1.3 m

High tide 20:19 2.4 m

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

Look up a past day in Matola

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

Matola weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Matola, Maputo Province: 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 22 °C (feels like 25 °C) and the wind blows at 15 km/h.

Expected range today: 19 °C to 26 °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, plus the tide times for Matola.

Other big cities nearby

Maputo 11 km 23°

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