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
26°
Feels like 36°
Wind↑ ESE 17 km/h
Humidity 81 %
💧 0.1 mm
Afternoon
Clear sky
28°
Feels like 37°
Wind↑ SE 20 km/h
Humidity 70 %
💧 0.1 mm
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
26°
Feels like 35°
Wind↑ ESE 15 km/h
Humidity 76 %
Afternoon
Mainly clear
28°
Feels like 37°
Wind↑ SE 20 km/h
Humidity 66 %
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
27°
Feels like 36°
Wind↑ ESE 16 km/h
Humidity 76 %
Afternoon
Mainly clear
28°
Feels like 38°
Wind↑ ESE 23 km/h
Humidity 68 %
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Mainly clear
27°
Feels like 37°
Wind↑ E 23 km/h
Gusts29 km/h
Humidity 78 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
29°
Feels like 39°
Wind↑ ESE 28 km/h
Humidity 72 %
Mogadishu 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)
Mogadishu climate: what a normal year looks like
The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 27 °C in July to 31 °C in March, and the coolest nights (August) average 23 °C.
Swimmers find the warmest sea in April (29 °C) and the coolest in August (25 °C).
A normal year brings roughly 540 mm of rain — less than 85% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.
The coming week looks normal for October: forecast highs average 29 °C, against a usual 29 °C.
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Sea
Jan
30 °C
24 °C
8 mm
26 °C
Feb
31 °C
25 °C
2 mm
27 °C
Mar
31 °C
26 °C
11 mm
28 °C
Apr
31 °C
26 °C
69 mm
29 °C
May
29 °C
25 °C
86 mm
28 °C
Jun
28 °C
24 °C
57 mm
27 °C
Jul
27 °C
23 °C
56 mm
26 °C
Aug
27 °C
23 °C
44 mm
25 °C
Sep
28 °C
24 °C
33 mm
26 °C
Oct
29 °C
25 °C
58 mm
27 °C
Nov
29 °C
25 °C
79 mm
28 °C
Dec
30 °C
25 °C
33 mm
27 °C
Whole year
29 °C
25 °C
540 mm
27 °C
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 2.04° N, 45.34° 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 Mogadishu: pollution and pollen
1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.54µg/m³
PM105µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Mogadishu
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Mogadishu, 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 Mogadishu yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Mogadishu
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 02:45 Set 15:34
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/Mogadishu); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Sea and tides near Mogadishu
Tide station used: Mogadishu
🌊 Sea surface
28.5 °C
satellite, 29/10
Sea state
Smooth
waves 0.9 m
Period
7 s
Swell
0.8 m
TodayThu 29/10
High tide05:252.8 m
Low tide12:030.2 m
High tide17:591.9 m
Low tide23:340.5 m
TomorrowFri 30/10
High tide06:052.7 m
Low tide12:480.4 m
High tide18:441.8 m
SatSat 31/10
Low tide00:150.7 m
High tide06:502.5 m
Low tide13:400.5 m
High tide19:411.7 m
SunSun 01/11
Low tide01:070.9 m
High tide07:452.2 m
Low tide14:450.7 m
High tide21:021.6 m
Indicative heights above chart datum. Coefficient: 20 for the weakest tides, 120 for the strongest.
Look up a past day in Mogadishu
Curious about the weather in Mogadishu on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Mogadishu weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Mogadishu, Banaadir: 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 27 °C (feels like 38 °C) and the wind blows at 8 km/h.
Expected range today: 27 °C to 29 °C and around 2 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, plus the tide times for Mogadishu.
Mogadishu weather data for developers
Use the Mogadishu forecast in your own website or app: one JSON call returns weather, air quality, tides and sun and moon times. The free key needs no card.
