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Amanat Alasimah · 1,937,451 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 22:08

Air: Moderate

14°

Clear sky

Feels like 14°C

Wind

3 km/h

Gusts

17 km/h

Humidity

47 %

Pressure

1021 hPa

Clouds

1 %

Storm

Rise 05:58 Set 17:35 Day 11 h 37 min UV 6 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Clear sky

19°14°

Feels like 19°

Wind ↑ ESE 18 km/h

Humidity 22 %

00:00

15°

ESE 7

Sanaa 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)

Sanaa climate: what a normal year looks like

Ranked against the 23 towns of 20,000+ people in Yemen, Sanaa has the third lowest mean temperature.

A normal year brings roughly 440 mm of rain — less than 89% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

The hottest stretch is June, when afternoons average 27 °C; the coldest is December, when nights average 8 °C.

The wet season is concentrated from July to September, which brings 54% of the annual total; August by itself averages 131 mm.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 21 °C, 2 °C cooler than a normal October (23 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	21 °C	8 °C	10 mm
Feb	23 °C	10 °C	10 mm
Mar	24 °C	11 °C	30 mm
Apr	24 °C	13 °C	57 mm
May	26 °C	15 °C	48 mm
Jun	27 °C	16 °C	25 mm
Jul	26 °C	16 °C	75 mm
Aug	26 °C	16 °C	131 mm
Sep	26 °C	14 °C	32 mm
Oct	23 °C	11 °C	11 mm
Nov	22 °C	9 °C	6 mm
Dec	21 °C	8 °C	5 mm
Whole year	24 °C	12 °C	440 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 15.35° N, 44.21° 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 Sanaa: pollution and pollen

3/6

Moderate

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.514µg/m³

PM1045µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Sanaa

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

Moon over Sanaa

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 02:19 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 (Asia/Aden); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Sanaa

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

Sanaa weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Sanaa, Amanat Alasimah: 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 14 °C (feels like 14 °C) and the wind blows at 3 km/h.

Expected range today: 14 °C to 22 °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

Al Ḩudaydah 148 km 28°

Ibb 154 km 18°

Taiz 198 km 22°

Najran 238 km 25°

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