11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Overcast
17°
Feels like 17°
Wind↑ NE 9 km/h
Gusts16 km/h
Humidity 54 %
Afternoon
Rain
13°
Feels like 13°
Wind↑ ENE 24 km/h
Gusts36 km/h
Humidity 86 %
💧 9.2 mm
12-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
12°
Feels like 12°
Wind↑ N 18 km/h
Gusts32 km/h
Humidity 71 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
16°
Feels like 16°
Wind↑ NNW 22 km/h
Gusts30 km/h
Humidity 53 %
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Clear sky
11°
Feels like 11°
Wind↑ N 19 km/h
Gusts31 km/h
Humidity 65 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
15°
Feels like 15°
Wind↑ N 17 km/h
Gusts23 km/h
Humidity 46 %
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Mainly clear
12°
Feels like 12°
Wind↑ ENE 10 km/h
Gusts17 km/h
Humidity 66 %
New Orleans forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
▲ This week runs +4.5° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
New Orleans climate: what a normal year looks like
Afternoons reach 30 °C or more from June to August; the typical peak is 31 °C in August.
There is no real dry season: monthly rainfall stays between 85 mm and 164 mm on average.
The hottest stretch is August, when afternoons average 31 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average 9 °C.
A normal year brings roughly 1,400 mm of rain — more than 72% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.
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
16 °C
9 °C
118 mm
Feb
18 °C
11 °C
110 mm
Mar
21 °C
14 °C
117 mm
Apr
24 °C
17 °C
102 mm
May
28 °C
21 °C
96 mm
Jun
30 °C
25 °C
136 mm
Jul
31 °C
25 °C
151 mm
Aug
31 °C
25 °C
164 mm
Sep
29 °C
24 °C
129 mm
Oct
26 °C
19 °C
90 mm
Nov
21 °C
14 °C
85 mm
Dec
17 °C
10 °C
100 mm
Whole year
24 °C
18 °C
1,400 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 29.95° N, 90.08° W, 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 New Orleans: pollution and pollen
1/6
Good
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.56µg/m³
PM106µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around New Orleans
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around New Orleans, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.
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Rain radarLast two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline
Moon over New Orleans
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 19:01 Set 09:06
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 (America/Chicago); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in New Orleans
Curious about the weather in New Orleans on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
New Orleans weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in New Orleans, LA: 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 16 °C (feels like 16 °C) and the wind blows at 12 km/h.
Expected range today: 16 °C to 26 °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.
New Orleans weather data for developers
Use the New Orleans forecast in your own website or app: one JSON call returns weather, air quality, tides and sun and moon times. The free key needs no card.
