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Mwanza · 1,104,521 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 21:57

Raining now Air: Good Moderate storm risk · Today, Tomorrow, Sat

24°

Rain showers

Feels like 31°C

Wind

10 km/h

Gusts

31 km/h

Humidity

73 %

Pressure

1014 hPa

Clouds

32 %

Storm

Low

Rise 06:26 Set 18:38 Day 12 h 11 min UV 9 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Rain showers

25°24°

Feels like 30°

Wind ↑ NW 18 km/h

Gusts 31 km/h

Humidity 59 %

💧 0.2 mm

⚡ storm

21:00

24°

0.2mm

NW 10

00:00

23°

0.1mm

S 8

Mwanza 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)

Mwanza climate: what a normal year looks like

The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 25 °C in November to 26 °C in February, and the coolest nights (July) average 20 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 1,610 mm of rain — more than 79% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Days are almost the same length all year: 11 h 58 min of daylight in late June, 12 h 16 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 27 °C, 1 °C warmer than a normal October (26 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	25 °C	21 °C	157 mm
Feb	26 °C	21 °C	114 mm
Mar	26 °C	21 °C	175 mm
Apr	26 °C	21 °C	190 mm
May	26 °C	21 °C	85 mm
Jun	26 °C	21 °C	33 mm
Jul	26 °C	20 °C	12 mm
Aug	26 °C	20 °C	53 mm
Sep	26 °C	21 °C	105 mm
Oct	26 °C	21 °C	210 mm
Nov	25 °C	21 °C	261 mm
Dec	25 °C	21 °C	219 mm
Whole year	26 °C	21 °C	1,610 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 2.52° S, 32.90° 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 Mwanza: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.57µg/m³

PM108µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Mwanza

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

Moon over Mwanza

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 03:47 Set 16:16

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 Mwanza

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

Mwanza weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Mwanza, Mwanza: 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 24 °C (feels like 31 °C) and the wind blows at 10 km/h.

Expected range today: 23 °C to 25 °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

Geita 84 km 24°

Kahama 150 km 27°

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