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Dodoma · 765,179 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 21:04

Air: Good Hot · 6 d

32°

Clear sky

Feels like 32°C

Wind

4 km/h

Gusts

4 km/h

Humidity

21 %

Pressure

1007 hPa

Clouds

2 %

Storm

Rise 06:11 Set 18:30 Day 12 h 18 min UV 9 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Clear sky

32°27°

Feels like 32°

Wind ↑ E 23 km/h

Gusts 42 km/h

Humidity 21 %

21:00

27°

E 23

00:00

25°

E 22

Dodoma 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)

Dodoma climate: what a normal year looks like

Ranked against the 176 towns of 20,000+ people in Tanzania, Dodoma has the second lowest yearly rainfall.

The wet season is concentrated from January to March, which brings 62% of the annual total; January by itself averages 119 mm.

From May to October, rain is scarce: under 10 mm a month on average.

The hottest stretch is November, when afternoons average 32 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 15 °C.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 33 °C, 2 °C warmer than a normal October (31 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	29 °C	20 °C	119 mm
Feb	29 °C	20 °C	93 mm
Mar	29 °C	20 °C	99 mm
Apr	29 °C	19 °C	49 mm
May	29 °C	18 °C	9 mm
Jun	28 °C	16 °C	1 mm
Jul	27 °C	15 °C	1 mm
Aug	28 °C	16 °C	1 mm
Sep	30 °C	17 °C	1 mm
Oct	31 °C	18 °C	5 mm
Nov	32 °C	20 °C	30 mm
Dec	30 °C	20 °C	92 mm
Whole year	29 °C	18 °C	500 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 6.17° S, 35.74° 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 Dodoma: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.58µg/m³

PM1010µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Dodoma

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

Moon over Dodoma

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 03:43 Set 15:56

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 Dodoma

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

Dodoma weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Dodoma, Dodoma: 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 32 °C (feels like 32 °C) and the wind blows at 4 km/h.

Expected range today: 25 °C to 35 °C and a dry sky; it will be very hot. 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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Where does this forecast come from? Our engine, checked every day against 1125 weather stations