11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Clear sky
27°
Feels like 37°
Wind↑ N 10 km/h
Humidity 77 %
Evening
Clear sky
27°
Feels like 38°
Wind↑ NNW 16 km/h
Humidity 77 %
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Clear sky
27°
Feels like 36°
Wind↑ W 3 km/h
Humidity 74 %
Evening
Clear sky
27°
Feels like 37°
Wind↑ W 16 km/h
Humidity 77 %
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Clear sky
26°
Feels like 35°
Wind↑ WNW 14 km/h
Humidity 73 %
Evening
Clear sky
27°
Feels like 36°
Wind↑ NW 15 km/h
Humidity 76 %
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Morning
Clear sky
26°
Feels like 35°
Wind↑ NNW 19 km/h
Humidity 76 %
Dakar 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)
Dakar 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 137 mm.
From November to June, rain is scarce: under 10 mm a month on average.
The hottest stretch is October, when afternoons average 31 °C; the coldest is March, when nights average 20 °C.
Afternoons reach 30 °C or more in October and November; the typical peak is 31 °C in November.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 29 °C, 2 °C cooler than a normal October (31 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
28 °C
20 °C
2 mm
Feb
28 °C
20 °C
1 mm
Mar
27 °C
20 °C
0 mm
Apr
27 °C
20 °C
0 mm
May
27 °C
21 °C
0 mm
Jun
28 °C
24 °C
1 mm
Jul
29 °C
26 °C
38 mm
Aug
29 °C
26 °C
137 mm
Sep
30 °C
26 °C
102 mm
Oct
31 °C
26 °C
27 mm
Nov
31 °C
24 °C
1 mm
Dec
29 °C
21 °C
1 mm
Whole year
29 °C
23 °C
310 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 14.69° N, 17.44° W, 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 Dakar: pollution and pollen
4/6
Poor
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.523µg/m³
PM1057µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Dakar
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Dakar, 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 Dakar yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Dakar
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 09:38 Set 23:25
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/Dakar); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in Dakar
Curious about the weather in Dakar on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Dakar weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Dakar, Dakar: 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 28 °C (feels like 37 °C) and the wind blows at 16 km/h.
Expected range today: 28 °C to 30 °C and a dry sky; 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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