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Niamey · 1,323,691 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 23:45

Air: Fair Heatwave risk · 15 d

33°

Clear sky

Feels like 33°C

Wind

11 km/h

Gusts

14 km/h

Humidity

16 %

Pressure

1013 hPa

Clouds

1 %

Storm

Rise 06:44 Set 18:25 Day 11 h 40 min UV 10 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Clear sky

35°33°

Feels like 37°

Wind ↑ ESE 11 km/h

Gusts 22 km/h

Humidity 23 %

Niamey forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +2.1° warmer than usual

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

Hourly detail

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

Niamey climate: what a normal year looks like

The wet season is concentrated from July to September, which brings 84% of the annual total; August by itself averages 127 mm.

Every month of the year sees typical highs of 30 °C or more — January, the mildest, still averages 31 °C.

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

Day and night differ most in November: 36 °C in the afternoon against 20 °C before dawn, a 16 °C swing.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 39 °C, 2 °C warmer than a normal October (37 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	31 °C	17 °C	0 mm
Feb	34 °C	20 °C	0 mm
Mar	38 °C	24 °C	1 mm
Apr	41 °C	27 °C	2 mm
May	40 °C	29 °C	10 mm
Jun	37 °C	28 °C	24 mm
Jul	34 °C	26 °C	66 mm
Aug	32 °C	25 °C	127 mm
Sep	34 °C	25 °C	47 mm
Oct	37 °C	25 °C	10 mm
Nov	36 °C	20 °C	0 mm
Dec	32 °C	17 °C	0 mm
Whole year	35 °C	24 °C	290 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 13.51° N, 2.11° 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 Niamey: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.519µg/m³

PM1030µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Niamey

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

Moon over Niamey

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 07:19 Set 21:00

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

Look up a past day in Niamey

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

Niamey weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Niamey, Niamey: 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 33 °C (feels like 33 °C) and the wind blows at 11 km/h.

Expected range today: 33 °C to 39 °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