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Harare · 1,542,813 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 22:21

Air: Fair Heatwave risk · 5 d

20°

Clear sky

Feels like 21°C

Wind

19 km/h

Gusts

29 km/h

Humidity

47 %

Pressure

1018 hPa

Clouds

0 %

Storm

Rise 05:18 Set 18:00 Day 12 h 42 min UV 9 · Very high

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend

Evening

Rain showers

21°20°

Feels like 25°

Wind ↑ ESE 19 km/h

Gusts 29 km/h

Humidity 68 %

💧 0.2 mm

23:00

20°

ESE 19

Harare forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +1.6° warmer than usual

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

Hourly detail

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

Harare 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 221 mm.

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

The hottest stretch is November, when afternoons average 28 °C; the coldest is July, when nights average 8 °C.

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

Forecast highs for the coming week average 31 °C, 2 °C warmer than a normal October (29 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
Month	Typical high	Typical low	Rainfall
Jan	26 °C	17 °C	221 mm
Feb	26 °C	17 °C	151 mm
Mar	25 °C	16 °C	99 mm
Apr	25 °C	14 °C	33 mm
May	24 °C	11 °C	8 mm
Jun	22 °C	9 °C	3 mm
Jul	21 °C	8 °C	2 mm
Aug	24 °C	10 °C	1 mm
Sep	27 °C	13 °C	4 mm
Oct	29 °C	16 °C	26 mm
Nov	28 °C	17 °C	91 mm
Dec	26 °C	17 °C	189 mm
Whole year	25 °C	14 °C	830 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 17.83° S, 31.05° 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 Harare: pollution and pollen

2/6

Fair

European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS

PM2.512µg/m³

PM1013µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Harare

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

Moon over Harare

Waning gibbous

87 % illuminated · 18.3 days

Rise 05:30 Set 16:49

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 Harare

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

Harare weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Harare, Harare: 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 21 °C) and the wind blows at 19 km/h.

Expected range today: 20 °C to 28 °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