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Abu Dhabi · 1,807,000 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 21:08

Air: Poor

30°

Clear sky

Feels like 40°C

Wind

21 km/h

Gusts

22 km/h

Humidity

66 %

Pressure

1012 hPa

Clouds

0 %

Storm

Rise 06:27 Set 17:44 Day 11 h 17 min UV 3 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Clear sky

30°

Feels like 40°

Wind ↑ NNE 21 km/h

Humidity 64 %

22:00

30°

NNE 18

01:00

30°

NE 22

Abu Dhabi forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +2.3° warmer than usual

Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)

Hourly detail

Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Abu Dhabi climate: what a normal year looks like

In 10 months out of twelve, rainfall averages under 10 mm.

A normal year brings roughly 50 mm of rain — less than 99% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from April to November; the typical peak is 41 °C in August.

The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 41 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 15 °C.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 33 °C, 2 °C cooler than a normal October (35 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	23 °C	15 °C	10 mm
Feb	25 °C	17 °C	10 mm
Mar	28 °C	19 °C	14 mm
Apr	33 °C	23 °C	4 mm
May	37 °C	27 °C	0 mm
Jun	39 °C	29 °C	0 mm
Jul	40 °C	31 °C	1 mm
Aug	41 °C	32 °C	1 mm
Sep	39 °C	29 °C	0 mm
Oct	35 °C	25 °C	1 mm
Nov	30 °C	22 °C	3 mm
Dec	26 °C	18 °C	6 mm
Whole year	33 °C	24 °C	50 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 24.45° N, 54.40° 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 Abu Dhabi: pollution and pollen

4/6

Poor

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.535µg/m³

PM1053µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Abu Dhabi

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

Moon over Abu Dhabi

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 00:13 Set 14:50

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 (Asia/Dubai); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Abu Dhabi

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

Abu Dhabi weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi: 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 30 °C (feels like 40 °C) and the wind blows at 21 km/h.

Expected range today: 30 °C to 33 °C and a dry sky. 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

Dubai 115 km 34°

Dayrah 129 km 30°

Al Ain City 141 km 31°

Sharjah 142 km 28°

Ajman 152 km 30°

Ras Al Khaimah 215 km 29°

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