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Pikine weather

Dakar · 1,170,791 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 17:59

Partly cloudy
28°
Partly cloudy
Feels like 37°C
Wind
16 km/h
Gusts
19 km/h
Humidity
67 %
Pressure
1011 hPa
Clouds
55 %
Storm
No
Rise 07:04 Set 18:42 Day 11 h 38 min UV 3 · Low

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Afternoon
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
30°28°
Feels like 39°
Wind ↑ NW 16 km/h
Humidity 59 %
Evening
Mainly clear
Mainly clear
30°28°
Feels like 40°
Wind ↑ NNW 14 km/h
Gusts 21 km/h
Humidity 65 %
18:00
Mainly clear
30°
NNW 14
21:00
Mainly clear
28°
NNE 11

Pikine 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)
25°27°29°30°32°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed29°27°Thu 29 Oct: max 30° · min 28° · normal 27.2°Fri 30 Oct: max 30° · min 28° · normal 27.1°Sat 31 Oct: max 30° · min 27° · normal 27.1°Sun 1 Nov: max 29° · min 27° · normal 27.1°Mon 2 Nov: max 28° · min 27° · normal 27.0°Tue 3 Nov: max 29° · min 27° · normal 27.0°Wed 4 Nov: max 29° · min 27° · normal 27.0°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu25°29°32°30°27°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Pikine 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)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan28 °C20 °C2 mm
Feb28 °C20 °C1 mm
Mar27 °C20 °C0 mm
Apr27 °C20 °C0 mm
May27 °C21 °C0 mm
Jun28 °C24 °C1 mm
Jul29 °C26 °C38 mm
Aug29 °C26 °C137 mm
Sep30 °C26 °C102 mm
Oct31 °C26 °C27 mm
Nov31 °C24 °C1 mm
Dec29 °C21 °C1 mm
Whole year29 °C23 °C310 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 14.76° N, 17.39° 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 Pikine: pollution and pollen

4/6
Poor
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.524µg/m³
PM1054µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Pikine

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Pikine, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Full-screen rain radar and next-hour rain on RainAtlas
Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Pikine yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Pikine

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 09:38 Set 23:25
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/Dakar); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Pikine

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

Pikine weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Pikine, 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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