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Chipata weather

Eastern Province · 327,059 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 18:54

Air: Fair Heatwave risk · 5 d Low storm risk · Today, Wed

30°

Rain showers

Feels like 36°C

Wind

15 km/h

Gusts

15 km/h

Humidity

45 %

Pressure

1012 hPa

Clouds

68 %

Storm

Low

Rise 05:16 Set 17:50 Day 12 h 33 min UV 5 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Rain

25°21°

Feels like 30°

Wind ↑ SSE 15 km/h

Gusts 37 km/h

Humidity 61 %

💧 6.9 mm

⚡ storm

20:00

25°

6.9mm

SSE 15

23:00

21°

SE 11

Chipata 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)

Chipata climate: what a normal year looks like

The wet season is concentrated from December to February, which brings 70% of the annual total; January by itself averages 268 mm.

From May to September, rain is scarce: under 10 mm a month on average.

The hottest stretch is November, when afternoons average 32 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 12 °C.

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more in October and November; the typical peak is 32 °C in November.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 33 °C, 1 °C warmer than a normal October (32 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	26 °C	19 °C	268 mm
Feb	27 °C	19 °C	217 mm
Mar	27 °C	19 °C	160 mm
Apr	27 °C	17 °C	37 mm
May	27 °C	15 °C	6 mm
Jun	25 °C	13 °C	1 mm
Jul	24 °C	12 °C	2 mm
Aug	27 °C	14 °C	1 mm
Sep	30 °C	17 °C	2 mm
Oct	32 °C	20 °C	18 mm
Nov	32 °C	21 °C	75 mm
Dec	28 °C	20 °C	231 mm
Whole year	27 °C	17 °C	1,020 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 13.63° S, 32.65° 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 Chipata: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.516µg/m³

PM1018µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Chipata

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

Moon over Chipata

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 05:13 Set 16:52

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/Lusaka); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Chipata

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

Chipata weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Chipata, Eastern Province: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “rain showers”, it is 30 °C (feels like 36 °C) and the wind blows at 15 km/h.

Expected range today: 21 °C to 33 °C and around 15 mm of rain; 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