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Windhoek weather

Khomas Region · 386,219 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 18:49

Air: Good Hot · 4 d

34°

Partly cloudy

Feels like 34°C

Wind

24 km/h

Gusts

24 km/h

Humidity

8 %

Pressure

1007 hPa

Clouds

56 %

Storm

Rise 06:08 Set 19:02 Day 12 h 53 min UV 11 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Partly cloudy

24°22°

Feels like 24°

Wind ↑ WSW 11 km/h

Gusts 40 km/h

Humidity 25 %

20:00

24°

WSW 9

23:00

22°

SSW 11

Windhoek forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +3.1° warmer than usual

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

Hourly detail

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

Windhoek climate: what a normal year looks like

The wet season is concentrated from January to March, which brings 69% of the annual total; February by itself averages 142 mm.

Day and night differ most in August: 23 °C in the afternoon against 7 °C before dawn, a 16 °C swing.

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

The hottest stretch is December, when afternoons average 30 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 4 °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	29 °C	17 °C	130 mm
Feb	28 °C	17 °C	142 mm
Mar	27 °C	16 °C	91 mm
Apr	25 °C	13 °C	33 mm
May	23 °C	8 °C	4 mm
Jun	21 °C	5 °C	1 mm
Jul	20 °C	4 °C	1 mm
Aug	23 °C	7 °C	1 mm
Sep	27 °C	12 °C	6 mm
Oct	29 °C	15 °C	16 mm
Nov	30 °C	15 °C	36 mm
Dec	30 °C	17 °C	68 mm
Whole year	26 °C	12 °C	530 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 22.56° S, 17.08° 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 Windhoek: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.50µg/m³

PM100µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Windhoek

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

Moon over Windhoek

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 06:40 Set 17:35

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

Look up a past day in Windhoek

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

Windhoek weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Windhoek, Khomas Region: 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 34 °C (feels like 34 °C) and the wind blows at 24 km/h.

Expected range today: 22 °C to 34 °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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