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Arusha · 617,631 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 20:06

Rain around 21:06 Air: Fair Low storm risk · Today, Tomorrow, Sat

17°

Rain

Feels like 17°C

Wind

3 km/h

Gusts

11 km/h

Humidity

78 %

Pressure

1014 hPa

Clouds

53 %

Storm

Rise 06:10 Set 18:23 Day 12 h 13 min UV 11 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Rain

20°17°

Feels like 20°

Wind ↑ NE 3 km/h

Gusts 11 km/h

Humidity 66 %

💧 20.6 mm

21:00

20°

10.4mm

NE 1

00:00

17°

0.9mm

NW 6

Arusha 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)

Arusha climate: what a normal year looks like

The hottest stretch is February, when afternoons average 28 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 12 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 840 mm of rain — less than 62% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Days are almost the same length all year: 11 h 55 min of daylight in late June, 12 h 19 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 24 °C, 2 °C cooler than a normal October (26 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	28 °C	16 °C	83 mm
Feb	28 °C	16 °C	73 mm
Mar	28 °C	17 °C	143 mm
Apr	25 °C	17 °C	162 mm
May	23 °C	15 °C	78 mm
Jun	22 °C	13 °C	19 mm
Jul	22 °C	12 °C	15 mm
Aug	23 °C	12 °C	14 mm
Sep	25 °C	13 °C	11 mm
Oct	26 °C	15 °C	34 mm
Nov	26 °C	16 °C	98 mm
Dec	27 °C	16 °C	106 mm
Whole year	25 °C	15 °C	840 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 3.37° S, 36.68° 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 Arusha: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.510µg/m³

PM1011µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Arusha

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

Moon over Arusha

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 03:33 Set 15:58

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/Dar_es_Salaam); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Arusha

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

Arusha weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Arusha, Arusha: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “rain”, it is 17 °C (feels like 17 °C) and the wind blows at 3 km/h.

Expected range today: 17 °C to 26 °C and around 25 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.

Other big cities nearby

Nairobi 232 km 28°

Kikuyu 236 km 28°

Ruiru 249 km 29°

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