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Port Harcourt weather

Rivers State · 2,120,000 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 18:05

Partly cloudy
32°
Partly cloudy
Feels like 45°C
Wind
4 km/h
Gusts
4 km/h
Humidity
66 %
Pressure
1012 hPa
Clouds
84 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:16 Set 18:14 Day 11 h 57 min UV 6 · High

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Rain
Rain
27°26°
Feels like 40°
Wind ↑ SSW 8 km/h
Gusts 17 km/h
Humidity 87 %
💧 5.2 mm
⚡ storm
19:00
Rain
27°
5.2mm
SSW 5
22:00
Clear sky
26°
SSW 8

Port Harcourt 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)
22°25°28°31°34°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed30°25°Thu 29 Oct: max 32° · min 26° · normal 26.7°Fri 30 Oct: max 29° · min 25° · normal 26.7°Sat 31 Oct: max 30° · min 25° · normal 26.7°Sun 1 Nov: max 31° · min 25° · normal 26.7°Mon 2 Nov: max 31° · min 25° · normal 26.7°Tue 3 Nov: max 31° · min 24° · normal 26.8°Wed 4 Nov: max 30° · min 25° · normal 26.8°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu22°28°33°31°24°08
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Port Harcourt climate: what a normal year looks like

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.

A normal year brings roughly 2,750 mm of rain — more than 96% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Days are almost the same length all year: 12 h 24 min of daylight in late June, 11 h 50 min in late December.

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

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan32 °C23 °C55 mm
Feb32 °C25 °C86 mm
Mar32 °C25 °C185 mm
Apr31 °C25 °C242 mm
May30 °C24 °C293 mm
Jun29 °C24 °C352 mm
Jul28 °C23 °C338 mm
Aug28 °C23 °C281 mm
Sep28 °C23 °C338 mm
Oct29 °C23 °C329 mm
Nov30 °C24 °C188 mm
Dec31 °C24 °C61 mm
Whole year30 °C24 °C2,750 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 4.78° N, 7.01° 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 Port Harcourt: pollution and pollen

3/6
Moderate
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.521µg/m³
PM1024µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Port Harcourt

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

Moon over Port Harcourt

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 07:19 Set 20:20
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 Port Harcourt

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

Port Harcourt weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Port Harcourt, Rivers State: 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 32 °C (feels like 45 °C) and the wind blows at 4 km/h.

Expected range today: 26 °C to 32 °C and around 10 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.

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