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Ndola weather

Copperbelt · 627,503 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 21:03

Raining now Air: Fair Very hot · 8 d Low storm risk · Tomorrow, Thu

25°

Rain showers

Feels like 28°C

Wind

7 km/h

Gusts

33 km/h

Humidity

51 %

Pressure

1013 hPa

Clouds

50 %

Storm

Rise 05:32 Set 18:05 Day 12 h 32 min UV 6 · Moderate

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Rain showers

25°19°

Feels like 28°

Wind ↑ SE 7 km/h

Gusts 33 km/h

Humidity 51 %

💧 2.3 mm

23:00

19°

1.1mm

N 5

Ndola 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)

Ndola climate: what a normal year looks like

The wet season is concentrated from December to February, which brings 69% of the annual total; January by itself averages 288 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 12 °C.

Day and night differ most in August: 27 °C in the afternoon against 14 °C before dawn, a 13 °C swing.

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	18 °C	288 mm
Feb	26 °C	18 °C	235 mm
Mar	26 °C	18 °C	170 mm
Apr	27 °C	16 °C	36 mm
May	27 °C	14 °C	4 mm
Jun	25 °C	12 °C	1 mm
Jul	25 °C	12 °C	0 mm
Aug	28 °C	14 °C	0 mm
Sep	30 °C	17 °C	2 mm
Oct	32 °C	19 °C	18 mm
Nov	30 °C	19 °C	119 mm
Dec	26 °C	18 °C	271 mm
Whole year	27 °C	16 °C	1,140 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 12.96° S, 28.64° 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 Ndola: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.520µg/m³

PM1021µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Ndola

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

Moon over Ndola

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 05:28 Set 17:10

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 Ndola

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

Ndola weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Ndola, 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 25 °C (feels like 28 °C) and the wind blows at 7 km/h.

Expected range today: 19 °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.

Other big cities nearby

Kitwe 49 km 25°

Lubumbashi 191 km 31°

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