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Africa Weather Report, 5 November 2026
Thursday, 5 November 2026 · Afternoon readings from 49 capital cities
One set of afternoon readings for 5 November 2026 across all 49 capitals, not daily highs or lows.
By Serrari Climate Desk · Published 6 November 2026, 12:21 EAT · Permanent link
Thursday brought scorching heat across the Sahel, heavy, humid air over Central Africa and mild conditions along the Mediterranean coast. The average afternoon temperature across the 49 capitals was 29.1°C.
The day at a glance
Hottest: N'Djamena, Chad, reached 39.9°C, just ahead of Ouagadougou (39.0°C) and Niamey (38.8°C).
Coolest: Asmara, Eritrea (18.8°C) and Maseru, Lesotho (18.9°C) stayed below 19°C.
Driest air: N'Djamena again, with humidity of just 8%.
Most humid: Luanda, Brazzaville and Kinshasa all recorded 89%.
Windiest: Tripoli (35.3 km/h) and Windhoek (34.9 km/h).
Rain: Yaoundé was the only capital with a light rain shower (0.69 mm). Nine others reported patchy rain nearby.
Charts
Drawn from the table below. Values are printed on every bar.
Region by region
North Africa was the mildest region, averaging 25.2°C. Tunis, Rabat, Algiers and Tripoli all sat between 21°C and 23°C, while Khartoum stood out at a hot, dry 36.8°C.
West Africa was split in two. Inland Sahel capitals such as Ouagadougou, Niamey and Bamako passed 38°C with humidity under 20%, while coastal cities from Dakar to Cotonou stayed in the humid high 20s.
Central Africa was the most humid region (66% on average). Patchy rain hung around Brazzaville, Kinshasa and Libreville, with N'Djamena the hot, dry exception in the north.
East Africa showed the widest range. Highland capitals stayed pleasant: Asmara (18.8°C), Addis Ababa (21.0°C) and Nairobi (23.4°C). Juba, by contrast, hit 38.7°C.
Southern Africa tied with West Africa as the warmest region (31.7°C) and had the driest air (29% humidity). Gaborone reached 38.4°C, while Maseru was cool at 18.9°C with patchy rain.
Capital by capital
Download the table (CSV)Units are in the column headers. Click a header to sort within each sub-region; click again to reverse, a third time to restore the report's order. Scroll right to see every column.
| Capital | Country | Condition | Temp (°C) | Feels like (°C) | Humidity (%) | Wind (km/h) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Africa · 6 capitals | ||||||
| Algiers | Algeria | Sunny | 21.9 | 18.6 | 61 | 23.8 |
| Cairo | Egypt | Overcast | 26.8 | 23.8 | 36 | 15.8 |
| Tripoli | Libya | Sunny | 22.7 | 18.6 | 74 | 35.3 |
| Rabat | Morocco | Overcast | 21.6 | 19.7 | 58 | 14.4 |
| Khartoum | Sudan | Sunny | 36.8 | 31.6 | 12 | 18.7 |
| Tunis | Tunisia | Overcast | 21.3 | 20.4 | 49 | 5.4 |
| West Africa · 14 capitals | ||||||
| Cotonou | Benin | Overcast | 27.9 | 32.1 | 81 | 22.7 |
| Ouagadougou | Burkina Faso | Overcast | 39.0 | 33.3 | 9 | 19.8 |
| Abidjan | Côte d'Ivoire | Patchy rain nearby | 27.5 | 30.9 | 79 | 18.4 |
| Banjul | Gambia | Overcast | 30.7 | 33.9 | 59 | 5.4 |
| Accra | Ghana | Partly Cloudy | 28.9 | 33.0 | 73 | 22.3 |
| Conakry | Guinea | Overcast | 27.3 | 30.0 | 77 | 10.4 |
| Monrovia | Liberia | Sunny | 28.2 | 31.4 | 72 | 9.0 |
| Bamako | Mali | Cloudy | 38.3 | 34.3 | 16 | 17.6 |
| Nouakchott | Mauritania | Sunny | 30.7 | 32.2 | 50 | 13.3 |
| Niamey | Niger | Overcast | 38.8 | 32.9 | 9 | 19.4 |
| Abuja | Nigeria | Overcast | 36.9 | 34.5 | 19 | 12.2 |
| Dakar | Senegal | Partly Cloudy | 27.6 | 31.4 | 83 | 31.0 |
| Freetown | Sierra Leone | Patchy rain nearby | 28.9 | 32.8 | 71 | 18.7 |
| Lomé | Togo | Overcast | 32.5 | 36.9 | 56 | 22.0 |
| Central Africa · 7 capitals | ||||||
| Luanda | Angola | Overcast | 24.7 | 27.2 | 89 | 14.0 |
| Yaoundé | Cameroon | Light rain shower | 28.9 | 30.9 | 61 | 9.0 |
| Bangui | Central African Rep. | Sunny | 33.6 | 34.9 | 41 | 8.6 |
| N'Djamena | Chad | Cloudy | 39.9 | 33.4 | 8 | 23.0 |
| Brazzaville | Congo | Patchy rain nearby | 24.9 | 28.8 | 89 | 6.5 |
| Kinshasa | DR Congo | Patchy rain nearby | 24.8 | 28.7 | 89 | 6.5 |
| Libreville | Gabon | Patchy rain nearby | 25.2 | 27.2 | 86 | 15.5 |
| East Africa · 13 capitals | ||||||
| Bujumbura | Burundi | Patchy rain nearby | 26.7 | 28.1 | 68 | 18.0 |
| Djibouti | Djibouti | Sunny | 28.1 | 30.1 | 64 | 14.0 |
| Asmara | Eritrea | Patchy rain nearby | 18.8 | 15.5 | 52 | 15.1 |
| Addis Ababa | Ethiopia | Cloudy | 21.0 | 16.2 | 34 | 18.7 |
| Nairobi | Kenya | Overcast | 23.4 | 20.2 | 44 | 17.3 |
| Antananarivo | Madagascar | Cloudy | 24.1 | 21.4 | 46 | 16.6 |
| Port Louis | Mauritius | Overcast | 24.6 | 23.6 | 64 | 18.4 |
| Kigali | Rwanda | Cloudy | 25.4 | 25.5 | 48 | 6.1 |
| Victoria | Seychelles | Overcast | 27.9 | 30.9 | 73 | 22.7 |
| Mogadishu | Somalia | Overcast | 27.3 | 29.7 | 73 | 22.0 |
| Juba | South Sudan | Cloudy | 38.7 | 37.4 | 17 | 6.1 |
| Dodoma | Tanzania | Sunny | 32.5 | 28.5 | 17 | 14.0 |
| Kampala | Uganda | Cloudy | 26.6 | 27.1 | 52 | 11.2 |
| Southern Africa · 9 capitals | ||||||
| Gaborone | Botswana | Sunny | 38.4 | 33.8 | 15 | 20.2 |
| Mbabane | Eswatini | Patchy rain nearby | 31.7 | 26.9 | 31 | 28.4 |
| Maseru | Lesotho | Patchy rain nearby | 18.9 | 14.9 | 66 | 24.1 |
| Lilongwe | Malawi | Overcast | 30.2 | 27.4 | 30 | 15.8 |
| Maputo | Mozambique | Sunny | 29.0 | 30.4 | 56 | 22.3 |
| Windhoek | Namibia | Sunny | 34.1 | 25.4 | 12 | 34.9 |
| Pretoria | South Africa | Cloudy | 34.6 | 30.9 | 18 | 15.5 |
| Lusaka | Zambia | Overcast | 34.5 | 29.9 | 17 | 19.1 |
| Harare | Zimbabwe | Cloudy | 33.6 | 29.1 | 16 | 16.2 |
49 capitals as listed in the desk's report; where a country has more than one capital city, the table shows the one the report names.
About these readings
- Data source
- WeatherAPI.com, observed conditions for each capital city.
- Reading moment
- The report gives one set of readings for 5 November 2026, as its dateline says; it does not state each capital's local time.
- Units
- Temperature and feels-like in degrees Celsius; humidity as relative humidity in per cent; wind in kilometres per hour.
- What this is
- Observations at one moment, not daily highs or lows, not a forecast and not an official warning. Weather data from WeatherAPI.com, for general information only. Forecasts and observations can be wrong or out of date; don’t rely on them for decisions about safety, travel or money. For warnings, follow your national meteorological service.
- Byline and times
- Serrari Climate Desk. Published 6 November 2026, 12:21 EAT. All times are East Africa Time (Africa/Nairobi, UTC+3) unless stated.
- Download
- CSV of the table (one row per capital, with its sub-region).