Rise 05:34 Set 18:06Day 12 h 32 minUV 8 · Very high
Morning, afternoon, evening
Trend
Evening
Rain showers
25°20°
Feels like 28°
Wind↑ S 6 km/h
Gusts13 km/h
Humidity 54 %
💧 2.4 mm
23:00
20°
1.6mm
ENE 6
Night
Rain showers
20°19°
Feels like 25°
Wind↑ ESE 6 km/h
Humidity 73 %
💧 2.9 mm
Morning
Rain showers
32°24°
Feels like 35°
Wind↑ E 10 km/h
Humidity 32 %
💧 0.3 mm
⚡ storm
Afternoon
Overcast
31°26°
Feels like 34°
Wind↑ E 27 km/h
Gusts43 km/h
Humidity 38 %
💧 0.1 mm
Evening
Rain showers
25°22°
Feels like 28°
Wind↑ SE 9 km/h
Gusts26 km/h
Humidity 52 %
💧 0.2 mm
Night
Mainly clear
20°19°
Feels like 20°
Wind↑ E 7 km/h
Gusts37 km/h
Humidity 69 %
Morning
Mainly clear
32°24°
Feels like 33°
Wind↑ ENE 11 km/h
Gusts18 km/h
Humidity 27 %
Afternoon
Mainly clear
33°32°
Feels like 33°
Wind↑ ENE 9 km/h
Gusts16 km/h
Humidity 18 %
Evening
Mainly clear
26°23°
Feels like 26°
Wind↑ NNE 9 km/h
Gusts15 km/h
Humidity 34 %
Night
Clear sky
19°
Feels like 19°
Wind↑ ESE 8 km/h
Humidity 54 %
Morning
Clear sky
34°25°
Feels like 34°
Wind↑ E 10 km/h
Gusts21 km/h
Humidity 19 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
34°33°
Feels like 34°
Wind↑ ENE 7 km/h
Gusts16 km/h
Humidity 14 %
Evening
Mainly clear
26°23°
Feels like 26°
Wind↑ ESE 8 km/h
Gusts27 km/h
Humidity 29 %
Night
Mainly clear
20°
Feels like 20°
Wind↑ NE 8 km/h
Gusts20 km/h
Humidity 48 %
Morning
Clear sky
35°26°
Feels like 36°
Wind↑ ENE 11 km/h
Gusts21 km/h
Humidity 22 %
Afternoon
Partly cloudy
34°33°
Feels like 34°
Wind↑ E 7 km/h
Gusts15 km/h
Humidity 22 %
Evening
Mainly clear
26°25°
Feels like 27°
Wind↑ NNE 10 km/h
Gusts21 km/h
Humidity 31 %
Night
Mainly clear
20°
Feels like 24°
Wind↑ N 7 km/h
Gusts19 km/h
Humidity 67 %
Morning
Clear sky
36°26°
Feels like 38°
Wind↑ NW 6 km/h
Gusts19 km/h
Humidity 21 %
Afternoon
Mainly clear
34°33°
Feels like 34°
Wind↑ E 13 km/h
Gusts21 km/h
Humidity 18 %
Evening
Mainly clear
27°22°
Feels like 29°
Wind↑ NNE 8 km/h
Gusts21 km/h
Humidity 38 %
Night
Clear sky
21°19°
Feels like 24°
Wind↑ NNW 8 km/h
Gusts21 km/h
Humidity 61 %
💧 0.1 mm
Morning
Mainly clear
34°27°
Feels like 35°
Wind↑ ENE 11 km/h
Gusts17 km/h
Humidity 23 %
Afternoon
Mainly clear
35°33°
Feels like 36°
Wind↑ ESE 12 km/h
Gusts21 km/h
Humidity 21 %
Evening
Mainly clear
28°23°
Feels like 28°
Wind↑ ESE 9 km/h
Gusts32 km/h
Humidity 28 %
Night
Clear sky
22°20°
Feels like 23°
Wind↑ ENE 8 km/h
Gusts18 km/h
Humidity 48 %
💧 0.1 mm
Morning
Clear sky
34°27°
Feels like 35°
Wind↑ NE 15 km/h
Gusts21 km/h
Humidity 24 %
Afternoon
Mainly clear
35°32°
Feels like 36°
Wind↑ E 15 km/h
Gusts22 km/h
Humidity 22 %
💧 0.1 mm
Evening
Rain showers
29°23°
Feels like 29°
Wind↑ ESE 14 km/h
Humidity 30 %
💧 0.2 mm
Night
Clear sky
23°20°
Feels like 25°
Wind↑ ESE 11 km/h
Humidity 51 %
Morning
Clear sky
35°27°
Feels like 35°
Wind↑ ENE 16 km/h
Humidity 20 %
Afternoon
Mainly clear
35°33°
Feels like 36°
Wind↑ ENE 12 km/h
Humidity 24 %
Evening
Partly cloudy
28°25°
Feels like 29°
Wind↑ E 9 km/h
Gusts23 km/h
Humidity 32 %
Night
Mainly clear
22°20°
Feels like 24°
Wind↑ E 7 km/h
Humidity 50 %
Morning
Mainly clear
36°28°
Feels like 37°
Wind↑ ENE 13 km/h
Humidity 21 %
Afternoon
Partly cloudy
35°33°
Feels like 36°
Wind↑ E 6 km/h
Gusts15 km/h
Humidity 22 %
💧 0.1 mm
Evening
Partly cloudy
28°25°
Feels like 29°
Wind↑ NW 9 km/h
Gusts25 km/h
Humidity 31 %
Night
Partly cloudy
22°21°
Feels like 25°
Wind↑ NNW 6 km/h
Humidity 59 %
Morning
Partly cloudy
36°27°
Feels like 36°
Wind↑ ENE 8 km/h
Gusts14 km/h
Humidity 19 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
34°
Feels like 34°
Wind↑ SE 8 km/h
Gusts14 km/h
Humidity 19 %
11-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Mainly clear
20°
Feels like 23°
Wind↑ SW 6 km/h
Gusts13 km/h
Humidity 65 %
Afternoon
Clear sky
36°
Feels like 36°
Wind↑ WSW 7 km/h
Humidity 19 %
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
20°
Feels like 25°
Wind↑ WSW 15 km/h
Gusts42 km/h
Humidity 75 %
💧 0.4 mm
Afternoon
Rain showers
30°
Feels like 33°
Wind↑ WNW 15 km/h
Humidity 34 %
💧 0.2 mm
⚡ storm
13-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Rain showers
18°
Feels like 18°
Wind↑ WNW 11 km/h
Gusts38 km/h
Humidity 82 %
💧 0.9 mm
Afternoon
Mainly clear
33°
Feels like 35°
Wind↑ W 5 km/h
Humidity 27 %
14-day outlook — past day 10 this is an outlook from the end of the GFS run: expect differences of several degrees.
Night
Rain
19°
Feels like 19°
Wind↑ W 17 km/h
Gusts38 km/h
Humidity 91 %
💧 5.8 mm
Afternoon
Mainly clear
32°
Feels like 34°
Wind↑ NW 14 km/h
Humidity 31 %
Kitwe forecast in charts · next 7 days
The week ahead: highs and lows
▲ This week runs +1.5° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
Hourly detail
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)
Kitwe climate: what a normal year looks like
The wet season is concentrated from December to February, which brings 68% of the annual total; January by itself averages 284 mm.
From May to September, rain is scarce: under 10 mm a month on average.
The hottest stretch is October, when afternoons average 32 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 11 °C.
Day and night differ most in August: 28 °C in the afternoon against 14 °C before dawn, a 14 °C swing.
Forecast highs for the coming week average 34 °C, 2 °C warmer than a normal October (32 °C).
30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month
Typical high
Typical low
Rainfall
Jan
26 °C
18 °C
284 mm
Feb
26 °C
18 °C
238 mm
Mar
27 °C
18 °C
178 mm
Apr
27 °C
16 °C
38 mm
May
27 °C
14 °C
4 mm
Jun
25 °C
12 °C
0 mm
Jul
25 °C
11 °C
0 mm
Aug
28 °C
14 °C
0 mm
Sep
31 °C
17 °C
1 mm
Oct
32 °C
19 °C
18 mm
Nov
30 °C
19 °C
127 mm
Dec
27 °C
18 °C
265 mm
Whole year
27 °C
16 °C
1,150 mm
Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 12.80° S, 28.21° 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 Kitwe: pollution and pollen
3/6
Moderate
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.522µg/m³
PM1022µg/m³
Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.
Rain radar around Kitwe
Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Kitwe, 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 Kitwe yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).
Moon over Kitwe
Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 05:30 Set 17:13
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/Lusaka); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.
Look up a past day in Kitwe
Curious about the weather in Kitwe on a given day? Choose a date: we read it from the ERA5 reanalysis (ECMWF / Copernicus C3S), which runs until about a week ago.
Kitwe weather at a glance
This page gathers everything about the weather in Kitwe, Copperbelt: 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 20 °C (feels like 25 °C) and the wind blows at 6 km/h.
Expected range today: 20 °C to 32 °C and around 3 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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