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Owerri weather

Imo State · 545,000 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 17:53

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

33°

Overcast

Feels like 46°C

Wind

0 km/h

Gusts

2 km/h

Humidity

64 %

Pressure

1012 hPa

Clouds

92 %

Storm

Rise 06:17 Set 18:13 Day 11 h 56 min UV 6 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Afternoon

Rain showers

33°31°

Feels like 46°

Wind ↑ S 4 km/h

Humidity 64 %

💧 1.4 mm

⚡ storm

Evening

Rain showers

27°24°

Feels like 39°

Wind ↑ SSW 7 km/h

Gusts 20 km/h

Humidity 89 %

💧 2.2 mm

⚡ storm

19:00

27°

2.1mm

S 5

22:00

24°

0.1mm

SSW 7

Owerri 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)

Owerri climate: what a normal year looks like

A normal year brings roughly 2,380 mm of rain — more than 93% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from October to May; the typical peak is 35 °C in February.

The hottest stretch is February, when afternoons average 35 °C; the coldest is August, when nights average 22 °C.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 31 °C, 1 °C warmer than a normal October (30 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	34 °C	22 °C	29 mm
Feb	35 °C	23 °C	57 mm
Mar	34 °C	24 °C	139 mm
Apr	32 °C	23 °C	217 mm
May	31 °C	23 °C	269 mm
Jun	30 °C	23 °C	301 mm
Jul	29 °C	22 °C	309 mm
Aug	29 °C	22 °C	281 mm
Sep	29 °C	22 °C	322 mm
Oct	30 °C	23 °C	308 mm
Nov	32 °C	23 °C	121 mm
Dec	33 °C	22 °C	28 mm
Whole year	31 °C	23 °C	2,380 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 5.48° N, 7.03° 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 Owerri: pollution and pollen

5/6

Very poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.562µg/m³

PM1065µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Owerri

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

Moon over Owerri

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 07:17 Set 20:22

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

Look up a past day in Owerri

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

Owerri weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Owerri, Imo State: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “overcast”, it is 33 °C (feels like 46 °C) and the wind blows at 0 km/h.

Expected range today: 24 °C to 33 °C and around 4 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

Umuahia 51 km 33°

Aba 56 km 32°

Port Harcourt 79 km 32°

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