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Bulawayo · 665,952 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 23:25

Air: Good Very hot · 10 d

20°

Clear sky

Feels like 20°C

Wind

21 km/h

Gusts

40 km/h

Humidity

65 %

Pressure

1019 hPa

Clouds

0 %

Storm

Rise 05:25 Set 18:13 Day 12 h 47 min UV 10 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Clear sky

20°18°

Feels like 20°

Wind ↑ ESE 24 km/h

Gusts 45 km/h

Humidity 65 %

23:00

18°

ESE 24

Bulawayo 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)

Bulawayo climate: what a normal year looks like

The wet season is concentrated from December to February, which brings 63% of the annual total; December by itself averages 150 mm.

Day and night differ most in August: 25 °C in the afternoon against 10 °C before dawn, a 15 °C swing.

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

The hottest stretch is October, when afternoons average 30 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 7 °C.

Forecast highs for the coming week average 33 °C, 3 °C warmer than a normal October (30 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	27 °C	18 °C	138 mm
Feb	27 °C	17 °C	114 mm
Mar	27 °C	16 °C	69 mm
Apr	26 °C	13 °C	26 mm
May	25 °C	10 °C	7 mm
Jun	22 °C	8 °C	5 mm
Jul	21 °C	7 °C	5 mm
Aug	25 °C	10 °C	2 mm
Sep	28 °C	14 °C	6 mm
Oct	30 °C	16 °C	25 mm
Nov	29 °C	17 °C	90 mm
Dec	28 °C	18 °C	150 mm
Whole year	26 °C	14 °C	640 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 20.15° S, 28.58° 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 Bulawayo: pollution and pollen

1/6

Good

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.57µg/m³

PM107µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Bulawayo

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

Moon over Bulawayo

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 05:46 Set 16:53

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

Look up a past day in Bulawayo

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

Bulawayo weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Bulawayo, Bulawayo: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “clear sky”, it is 20 °C (feels like 20 °C) and the wind blows at 21 km/h.

Expected range today: 18 °C to 29 °C and a dry sky; 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