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Solwezi weather

North-Western · 301,370 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 18:57

Raining now Air: Moderate Very hot · 6 d Moderate storm risk · Wed, Thu, Fri

23°

Rain showers

Feels like 26°C

Wind

8 km/h

Gusts

15 km/h

Humidity

59 %

Pressure

1009 hPa

Clouds

26 %

Storm

Rise 05:42 Set 18:13 Day 12 h 30 min UV 11 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Rain showers

22°19°

Feels like 27°

Wind ↑ WSW 4 km/h

Gusts 25 km/h

Humidity 68 %

💧 1.1 mm

20:00

22°

0.9mm

WSW 1

23:00

19°

0.2mm

W 4

Solwezi 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)

Solwezi climate: what a normal year looks like

The wet season is concentrated from December to February, which brings 62% of the annual total; January by itself averages 289 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.

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 32 °C, 1 °C warmer than a normal October (31 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	25 °C	17 °C	289 mm
Feb	26 °C	17 °C	243 mm
Mar	26 °C	17 °C	221 mm
Apr	26 °C	16 °C	55 mm
May	27 °C	14 °C	5 mm
Jun	25 °C	12 °C	1 mm
Jul	25 °C	11 °C	0 mm
Aug	28 °C	14 °C	0 mm
Sep	31 °C	17 °C	4 mm
Oct	31 °C	19 °C	38 mm
Nov	28 °C	18 °C	175 mm
Dec	26 °C	17 °C	286 mm
Whole year	27 °C	16 °C	1,320 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 12.17° S, 26.39° 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 Solwezi: pollution and pollen

3/6

Moderate

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.523µg/m³

PM1023µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Solwezi

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

Moon over Solwezi

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 05:36 Set 17:22

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 Solwezi

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

Solwezi weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Solwezi, North-Western: 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 23 °C (feels like 26 °C) and the wind blows at 8 km/h.

Expected range today: 19 °C to 29 °C and around 1 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

Lubumbashi 131 km 31°

Likasi 137 km 24°

Kolwezi 190 km 19°

Kitwe 210 km 32°

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