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Dar es Salaam Region · 5,383,728 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 23:27

Air: Good Moderate storm risk · Tomorrow, Sat, Tue

26°

Clear sky

Feels like 36°C

Wind

12 km/h

Gusts

20 km/h

Humidity

83 %

Pressure

1013 hPa

Clouds

15 %

Storm

Rise 05:56 Set 18:16 Day 12 h 20 min UV 8 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Clear sky

28°26°

Feels like 37°

Wind ↑ ENE 15 km/h

Gusts 25 km/h

Humidity 71 %

00:00

26°

ENE 12

Dar es Salaam forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +1.8° warmer than usual

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Dar es Salaam climate: what a normal year looks like

The hottest stretch is February, when afternoons average 32 °C; the coldest is August, when nights average 21 °C.

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from November to March; the typical peak is 32 °C in February.

Days are almost the same length all year: 11 h 43 min of daylight in late June, 12 h 31 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 31 °C, 1 °C warmer than a normal October (30 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	31 °C	25 °C	64 mm
Feb	32 °C	25 °C	67 mm
Mar	31 °C	25 °C	170 mm
Apr	29 °C	24 °C	211 mm
May	29 °C	23 °C	140 mm
Jun	28 °C	22 °C	41 mm
Jul	28 °C	21 °C	29 mm
Aug	28 °C	21 °C	31 mm
Sep	29 °C	21 °C	29 mm
Oct	30 °C	23 °C	65 mm
Nov	30 °C	24 °C	102 mm
Dec	31 °C	25 °C	104 mm
Whole year	30 °C	23 °C	1,050 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 6.82° S, 39.27° 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 Dar es Salaam: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.510µg/m³

PM1014µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Dar es Salaam

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

Moon over Dar es Salaam

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 03:30 Set 15:40

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 Dar es Salaam

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

Dar es Salaam weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam Region: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 26 °C (feels like 36 °C) and the wind blows at 12 km/h.

Expected range today: 26 °C to 31 °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.

Other big cities nearby

Zanzibar 75 km 27°

Morogoro 178 km 26°

Tanga 196 km 27°

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