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Tanga weather

Tanga · 393,429 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 21:06

Clear sky
27°
Clear sky
Feels like 37°C
Wind
13 km/h
Gusts
17 km/h
Humidity
75 %
Pressure
1010 hPa
Clouds
2 %
Storm
No
Rise 05:58 Set 18:15 Day 12 h 16 min UV 7 · High

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Clear sky
Clear sky
27°
Feels like 37°
Wind ↑ ESE 13 km/h
Humidity 75 %
21:00
Clear sky
27°
ENE 7
00:00
Clear sky
24°
NNW 8

Tanga forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +1.7° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
20°25°29°34°38°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed33°24°Thu 29 Oct: max 31° · min 24° · normal 26.2°Fri 30 Oct: max 36° · min 23° · normal 26.2°Sat 31 Oct: max 31° · min 23° · normal 26.3°Sun 1 Nov: max 33° · min 22° · normal 26.3°Mon 2 Nov: max 34° · min 23° · normal 26.3°Tue 3 Nov: max 33° · min 23° · normal 26.3°Wed 4 Nov: max 33° · min 24° · normal 26.4°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu21°29°37°36°22°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Tanga climate: what a normal year looks like

The hottest stretch is February, when afternoons average 33 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 20 °C.

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from November to April; the typical peak is 33 °C in February.

Days are almost the same length all year: 11 h 49 min of daylight in late June, 12 h 25 min in late December.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 33 °C, 3 °C warmer than a normal October (30 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan33 °C25 °C35 mm
Feb33 °C25 °C35 mm
Mar32 °C25 °C99 mm
Apr30 °C24 °C170 mm
May29 °C23 °C188 mm
Jun28 °C22 °C61 mm
Jul28 °C21 °C53 mm
Aug28 °C21 °C58 mm
Sep29 °C21 °C55 mm
Oct30 °C22 °C101 mm
Nov30 °C24 °C96 mm
Dec32 °C24 °C74 mm
Whole year30 °C23 °C1,020 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 5.07° S, 39.10° 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 Tanga: pollution and pollen

2/6
Fair
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.511µg/m³
PM1016µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Tanga

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

Moon over Tanga

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 03:27 Set 15:44
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 Tanga

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

Tanga weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Tanga, Tanga: 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 27 °C (feels like 37 °C) and the wind blows at 13 km/h.

Expected range today: 24 °C to 31 °C and a dry sky; keep an eye on thunderstorms; 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