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Zinder Region · 318,874 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 19:34

Air: Poor Heatwave risk · 10 d

37°

Clear sky

Feels like 37°C

Wind

23 km/h

Gusts

23 km/h

Humidity

9 %

Pressure

1009 hPa

Clouds

1 %

Storm

Rise 06:17 Set 17:57 Day 11 h 40 min UV 10 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Clear sky

30°28°

Feels like 30°

Wind ↑ NNE 18 km/h

Gusts 31 km/h

Humidity 24 %

19:00

30°

NE 11

22:00

28°

NNE 18

Zinder forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +1.5° warmer than usual

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

Hourly detail

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

Zinder climate: what a normal year looks like

The wet season is concentrated from July to September, which brings 89% of the annual total; August by itself averages 136 mm.

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from February to November; the typical peak is 40 °C in May.

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

Day and night differ most in November: 34 °C in the afternoon against 18 °C before dawn, a 16 °C swing.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 38 °C, 1 °C warmer than a normal October (37 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	29 °C	13 °C	0 mm
Feb	32 °C	16 °C	0 mm
Mar	36 °C	21 °C	0 mm
Apr	40 °C	25 °C	1 mm
May	40 °C	26 °C	7 mm
Jun	38 °C	26 °C	17 mm
Jul	34 °C	25 °C	71 mm
Aug	32 °C	24 °C	136 mm
Sep	35 °C	24 °C	40 mm
Oct	37 °C	23 °C	5 mm
Nov	34 °C	18 °C	0 mm
Dec	30 °C	14 °C	0 mm
Whole year	35 °C	21 °C	280 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 13.81° N, 8.99° 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 Zinder: pollution and pollen

4/6

Poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.523µg/m³

PM1052µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Zinder

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

Moon over Zinder

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 06:50 Set 20:33

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 Zinder

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

Zinder weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Zinder, Zinder Region: 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 37 °C (feels like 37 °C) and the wind blows at 23 km/h.

Expected range today: 23 °C to 37 °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.

Other big cities nearby

Katsina 175 km 29°

Maradi 207 km 37°

Kano 207 km 30°

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