11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Rain showers
21°
Feels like 27°
Wind↑ N 1 km/h
Humidity 85 %
💧 1.1 mm
⚡ storm
Afternoon
Light rain
23°
Feels like 29°
Wind↑ ESE 21 km/h
Gusts29 km/h
Humidity 76 %
💧 1.7 mm
⚡ storm
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Rain showers
17°
Feels like 17°
Wind↑ NW 6 km/h
Humidity 82 %
💧 0.4 mm
Afternoon
Mainly clear
28°
Feels like 32°
Wind↑ SSE 17 km/h
Humidity 46 %
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Mainly clear
19°
Feels like 19°
Wind↑ W 6 km/h
Humidity 87 %
💧 0.1 mm
Afternoon
Drizzle
27°
Feels like 31°
Wind↑ SSE 10 km/h
Humidity 47 %
💧 0.9 mm
⚡ storm
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Rain showers
17°
Feels like 17°
Wind↑ NW 6 km/h
Gusts16 km/h
Humidity 96 %
💧 2.5 mm
Afternoon
Rain
20°
Feels like 26°
Wind↑ S 13 km/h
Gusts23 km/h
Humidity 90 %
💧 5.4 mm
⚡ storm
Kampala 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)
Kampala climate: what a normal year looks like
The thermometer moves little from one season to the next: typical afternoon highs range from 24 °C in July to 26 °C in February, and the coolest nights (July) average 18 °C.
A normal year brings roughly 1,860 mm of rain — more than 86% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.
Days are almost the same length all year: 12 h 08 min of daylight in late June, 12 h 06 min in late December.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 27 °C, 2 °C warmer than a normal October (25 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
26 °C
20 °C
115 mm
Feb
27 °C
20 °C
110 mm
Mar
26 °C
20 °C
175 mm
Apr
25 °C
20 °C
233 mm
May
25 °C
19 °C
202 mm
Jun
25 °C
19 °C
133 mm
Jul
24 °C
18 °C
103 mm
Aug
25 °C
19 °C
132 mm
Sep
25 °C
19 °C
143 mm
Oct
25 °C
19 °C
176 mm
Nov
25 °C
19 °C
194 mm
Dec
25 °C
19 °C
143 mm
Whole year
25 °C
19 °C
1,860 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 0.32° N, 32.58° 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 Kampala: pollution and pollen
6/6
Extremely poor
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.576µg/m³
PM1078µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Kampala
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Kampala, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
No open weather radar covers Kampala yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Kampala
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 03:42 Set 16:24
Fri30/1079%
Sat31/1069%
Sun1/1159%
Mon2/1149%Last quarter
Tue3/1138%
Wed4/1128%
Thu5/1119%
Fri6/1112%
Sat7/116%
Sun8/112%
Mon9/110%
Tue10/111%New moon
Moonrise and moonset in local time (Africa/Kampala); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in Kampala
Curious about the weather in Kampala on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Kampala weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Kampala, Central Region: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “light rain”, it is 18 °C (feels like 18 °C) and the wind blows at 10 km/h.
Expected range today: 18 °C to 25 °C and around 5 mm of rain; 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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