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Calabar weather

Cross River State · 540,000 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 17:56

Raining now Air: Poor High storm risk · Today, Tomorrow, Sat

32°

Rain showers

Feels like 45°C

Wind

2 km/h

Gusts

6 km/h

Humidity

70 %

Pressure

1012 hPa

Clouds

68 %

Storm

Moderate

Rise 06:11 Set 18:09 Day 11 h 57 min UV 6 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Afternoon

Rain showers

32°29°

Feels like 45°

Wind ↑ SSW 9 km/h

Humidity 70 %

💧 3.2 mm

⚡ storm

Evening

Rain

27°25°

Feels like 40°

Wind ↑ S 5 km/h

Gusts 15 km/h

Humidity 89 %

💧 5.0 mm

⚡ storm

19:00

27°

5.0mm

S 4

22:00

25°

SW 5

Calabar 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)

Calabar climate: what a normal year looks like

Ranked against the 227 towns of 20,000+ people in Nigeria, Calabar has the third highest yearly rainfall.

A normal year brings roughly 3,430 mm of rain — more than 99% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 28 °C in August to 32 °C in February, and the coolest nights (August) average 23 °C.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 31 °C, 2 °C warmer than a normal October (29 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	32 °C	24 °C	53 mm
Feb	32 °C	25 °C	86 mm
Mar	32 °C	25 °C	203 mm
Apr	31 °C	24 °C	290 mm
May	30 °C	24 °C	353 mm
Jun	29 °C	23 °C	428 mm
Jul	28 °C	23 °C	468 mm
Aug	28 °C	23 °C	436 mm
Sep	28 °C	23 °C	440 mm
Oct	29 °C	23 °C	403 mm
Nov	30 °C	24 °C	208 mm
Dec	31 °C	24 °C	64 mm
Whole year	30 °C	24 °C	3,430 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 4.96° N, 8.33° 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 Calabar: pollution and pollen

4/6

Poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.527µg/m³

PM1032µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Calabar

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

Moon over Calabar

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 07:13 Set 20:15

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

Look up a past day in Calabar

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

Calabar weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Calabar, Cross River State: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “rain showers”, it is 32 °C (feels like 45 °C) and the wind blows at 2 km/h.

Expected range today: 25 °C to 32 °C and around 8 mm of rain; keep an eye on thunderstorms. 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

Uyo 45 km 32°

Aba 108 km 32°

Umuahia 112 km 33°

Port Harcourt 147 km 32°

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