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Mbeya · 541,603 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 21:02

Air: Very poor Low storm risk · Wed, Thu

20°

Clear sky

Feels like 21°C

Wind

7 km/h

Gusts

14 km/h

Humidity

47 %

Pressure

1015 hPa

Clouds

5 %

Storm

Rise 06:17 Set 18:42 Day 12 h 24 min UV 11 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Clear sky

25°20°

Feels like 25°

Wind ↑ SSE 16 km/h

Gusts 31 km/h

Humidity 28 %

21:00

20°

SE 7

00:00

17°

SE 12

Mbeya 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)

Mbeya climate: what a normal year looks like

The hottest stretch is November, when afternoons average 27 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 11 °C.

The wet season is concentrated from January to March, which brings 57% of the annual total; March by itself averages 366 mm.

From June to September, rain is scarce: under 10 mm a month on average.

Afternoons climb to 25 °C only from September to November, with a typical peak of 27 °C in October.

The coming week looks normal for October: forecast highs average 27 °C, against a usual 27 °C.

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	24 °C	16 °C	352 mm
Feb	24 °C	16 °C	287 mm
Mar	24 °C	16 °C	366 mm
Apr	23 °C	15 °C	193 mm
May	24 °C	14 °C	32 mm
Jun	23 °C	12 °C	4 mm
Jul	23 °C	11 °C	2 mm
Aug	24 °C	12 °C	4 mm
Sep	26 °C	14 °C	8 mm
Oct	27 °C	16 °C	43 mm
Nov	27 °C	16 °C	156 mm
Dec	25 °C	16 °C	318 mm
Whole year	24 °C	14 °C	1,760 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 8.90° S, 33.45° 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 Mbeya: pollution and pollen

5/6

Very poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.550µg/m³

PM1052µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Mbeya

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

Moon over Mbeya

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 03:59 Set 15:60

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 Mbeya

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

Mbeya weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Mbeya, Mbeya: 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 20 °C (feels like 21 °C) and the wind blows at 7 km/h.

Expected range today: 17 °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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