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Sumbawanga weather

Rukwa · 303,986 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 20:07

Air: Poor Low storm risk · Tomorrow, Sat, Sun

26°

Mainly clear

Feels like 27°C

Wind

3 km/h

Gusts

4 km/h

Humidity

33 %

Pressure

1009 hPa

Clouds

35 %

Storm

Rise 06:25 Set 18:48 Day 12 h 22 min UV 5 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Mainly clear

26°21°

Feels like 27°

Wind ↑ SW 5 km/h

Humidity 33 %

21:00

21°

SW 5

00:00

19°

SSE 3

Sumbawanga 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)

Sumbawanga climate: what a normal year looks like

The hottest stretch is October, when afternoons average 26 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 11 °C.

The wet season is concentrated from December to February, which brings 61% of the annual total; January by itself averages 363 mm.

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

Afternoons climb to 25 °C only in September and October, with a typical peak of 26 °C in October.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 25 °C, 1 °C cooler than a normal October (26 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	23 °C	15 °C	363 mm
Feb	23 °C	15 °C	292 mm
Mar	23 °C	15 °C	273 mm
Apr	23 °C	15 °C	132 mm
May	23 °C	14 °C	25 mm
Jun	23 °C	12 °C	2 mm
Jul	23 °C	11 °C	1 mm
Aug	24 °C	13 °C	2 mm
Sep	25 °C	15 °C	6 mm
Oct	26 °C	16 °C	32 mm
Nov	25 °C	16 °C	137 mm
Dec	23 °C	15 °C	285 mm
Whole year	24 °C	14 °C	1,550 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 7.97° S, 31.62° 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 Sumbawanga: pollution and pollen

4/6

Poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.531µg/m³

PM1033µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Sumbawanga

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

Moon over Sumbawanga

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 04:04 Set 16:09

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 Sumbawanga

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

Sumbawanga weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Sumbawanga, Rukwa: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “mainly clear”, it is 26 °C (feels like 27 °C) and the wind blows at 3 km/h.

Expected range today: 19 °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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