11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Mainly clear
15°
Feels like 15°
Wind↑ NW 7 km/h
Humidity 88 %
Afternoon
Rain showers
24°
Feels like 27°
Wind↑ NW 6 km/h
Gusts13 km/h
Humidity 55 %
💧 0.5 mm
⚡ storm
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Mainly clear
15°
Feels like 15°
Wind↑ NW 4 km/h
Humidity 96 %
Afternoon
Overcast
28°
Feels like 30°
Wind↑ NNE 6 km/h
Humidity 38 %
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Rain showers
16°
Feels like 16°
Wind↑ NNW 3 km/h
Humidity 95 %
💧 0.2 mm
Afternoon
Rain showers
26°
Feels like 29°
Wind↑ NNW 10 km/h
Humidity 44 %
💧 1.3 mm
⚡ storm
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Rain showers
15°
Feels like 15°
Wind↑ NW 5 km/h
Humidity 96 %
💧 1.5 mm
Afternoon
Drizzle
24°
Feels like 28°
Wind↑ NE 3 km/h
Humidity 57 %
💧 0.2 mm
⚡ storm
Kigali 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)
Kigali climate: what a normal year looks like
The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 24 °C in April to 26 °C in September, and the coolest nights (December) average 15 °C.
Days are almost the same length all year: 12 h 00 min of daylight in late June, 12 h 14 min in late December.
A normal year brings roughly 1,030 mm of rain — more than 52% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.
The coming week looks normal for October: forecast highs average 26 °C, against a usual 26 °C.
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
25 °C
15 °C
91 mm
Feb
26 °C
15 °C
92 mm
Mar
26 °C
15 °C
121 mm
Apr
24 °C
15 °C
150 mm
May
25 °C
15 °C
92 mm
Jun
25 °C
16 °C
17 mm
Jul
26 °C
15 °C
6 mm
Aug
26 °C
16 °C
28 mm
Sep
26 °C
16 °C
62 mm
Oct
26 °C
16 °C
126 mm
Nov
25 °C
15 °C
141 mm
Dec
25 °C
15 °C
107 mm
Whole year
25 °C
15 °C
1,030 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 1.95° S, 30.06° 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 Kigali: pollution and pollen
4/6
Poor
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.531µg/m³
PM1031µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Kigali
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Kigali, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
No open weather radar covers Kigali yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Kigali
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 04:58 Set 17:29
Fri30/1079%
Sat31/1069%
Sun1/1159%
Mon2/1149%Last quarter
Tue3/1138%
Wed4/1128%
Thu5/1119%
Fri6/1112%
Sat7/116%
Sun8/112%
Mon9/110%
Tue10/111%New moon
Moonrise and moonset in local time (Africa/Kigali); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in Kigali
Curious about the weather in Kigali on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Kigali weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Kigali, Kigali: 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 16 °C (feels like 16 °C) and the wind blows at 3 km/h.
Expected range today: 16 °C to 22 °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.
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