Is an umbrella needed today in Kinshasa

Kinshasa, Congo - Kinshasa

Today, 2026-10-12

No umbrella is needed

No rain or snow is forecast from 13:00 to 22:00.
Afternoon pick-up (15:00–18:00): dry in the forecast.

Hour	Sky	Wind m/s
13:00	Fair	1.8
14:00	Fair	2.1
15:00	Fair	1.9
16:00	Partly cloudy	1.8
17:00	Partly cloudy	2.4
18:00	Partly cloudy	2.2
19:00	Partly cloudy	2.9
20:00	Partly cloudy	3.3
21:00	Partly cloudy	3

Tomorrow, 2026-10-13

A folding umbrella is enough

Rain or snow is forecast for 6:00–7:00, 15:00–16:00.
Precipitation in those hours adds up to 0.6 mm, and the most in one hour is 0.4 mm.
Morning school run (7:00–9:00): dry in the forecast.
Afternoon pick-up (15:00–18:00): rain or snow is forecast.
It is wet for 2 hours or fewer, and every hour is under 1 mm in the forecast.

Hour	Mark	Sky	Rain mm	Wind m/s
6:00	wet	Rain	0.4	1.8
7:00		Partly cloudy	0	1.9
8:00		Cloudy	0	1.9
9:00		Cloudy	0	1.7
10:00		Fair	0	1.5
11:00		Fair	0	1.2
12:00		Clear	0	1.1
13:00		Clear	0	1.8
14:00		Fair	0	1.8
15:00	wet	Rain	0.2	2.4
16:00		Fair	0	2.9
17:00		Partly cloudy	0	1.7
18:00		Partly cloudy	0	1.8
19:00		Partly cloudy	0	1.5
20:00		Partly cloudy	0	1.7
21:00		Partly cloudy	0	2

Rain after tomorrow

Day	Sky	Rain mm
Wed 2026-10-14	Rain	18.6
Thu 2026-10-15	Rain	8.3
Fri 2026-10-16	Rain	2.3–9.9
Sat 2026-10-17	Rain	20.9–33.7
Sun 2026-10-18	Rain	4.1–10.4

From Thu 2026-10-15 the forecast comes in 6-hour steps.

Where rain is a range, a 6-hour forecast step crosses midnight in local time. Its rain could fall on either day, so it is counted in the range of both.

Forecast updated at 12:17. Hours are in the town's time zone (Africa/Kinshasa).

Data sources

Weather: MET Norway (NLOD 2.0 and CC BY 4.0, licence text). Town list: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Both adapted (what was changed).

Is an umbrella needed today in Kinshasa

Today, 2026-10-12

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