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Lusaka Province · 2,212,301 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 21:07

Air: Fair Heatwave risk · 13 d Moderate storm risk · Today, Wed, Thu

26°

Rain

Feels like 31°C

Wind

10 km/h

Gusts

38 km/h

Humidity

51 %

Pressure

1013 hPa

Clouds

25 %

Storm

Low

Rise 05:31 Set 18:09 Day 12 h 37 min UV 3 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Rain

26°21°

Feels like 31°

Wind ↑ E 12 km/h

Gusts 38 km/h

Humidity 51 %

💧 9.3 mm

⚡ storm

23:00

21°

NE 12

Lusaka forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +2.1° warmer than usual

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

Hourly detail

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

Lusaka 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 248 mm.

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

The hottest stretch is October, when afternoons average 31 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 11 °C.

Afternoons reach 30 °C or more in October and November; the typical peak is 31 °C in October.

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	19 °C	248 mm
Feb	27 °C	19 °C	193 mm
Mar	27 °C	18 °C	132 mm
Apr	26 °C	16 °C	30 mm
May	26 °C	13 °C	5 mm
Jun	23 °C	11 °C	2 mm
Jul	23 °C	11 °C	2 mm
Aug	26 °C	13 °C	1 mm
Sep	30 °C	17 °C	2 mm
Oct	32 °C	20 °C	15 mm
Nov	30 °C	20 °C	98 mm
Dec	27 °C	19 °C	228 mm
Whole year	27 °C	16 °C	960 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 15.41° S, 28.29° 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 Lusaka: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.515µg/m³

PM1017µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Lusaka

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

Moon over Lusaka

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 05:36 Set 17:06

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 Lusaka

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

Lusaka weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Lusaka, Lusaka 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”, it is 26 °C (feels like 31 °C) and the wind blows at 10 km/h.

Expected range today: 21 °C to 33 °C and around 17 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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