Nairobi today

The globe opens over Nairobi (1.3° S, 36.8° E) with the latest satellite clouds and rain radar, and Nairobi's place card open: its local time, current weather, sunrise and sunset, the Moon, and any alerts near it.

Below, as the page is served, are the alerts near Nairobi and which sources were checked for them, its weather now and over the next day, its air quality, then its day on its own clock (Africa/Nairobi): sunrise, sunset and the length of the day, golden and blue hour, the Moon's phase and when it's up, the coming week's sunsets, and the next full Moon and eclipses seen from Nairobi; then what might cross its sky.

Alerts near Nairobi

Nothing active near Nairobi at 13:13 GMT+3 from what was checked: tropical cyclones, tsunami bulletins, earthquakes, GDACS disaster alerts, satellite fire detections and air quality. Nairobi's national weather warnings aren't carried here, so check its national weather service too. This page is not a warning service: in an emergency, follow your local authorities.

Weather over Nairobi

Nowovercast, 26°C, feels 28°C · wind NE 14 km/h · 100% cloud cover
Next 24 hourshigh 26°C around 13:00, low 16°C around 03:00 · rain likeliest around 18:00, a 67% chance
Hour by hour13:00 26°C, overcast, 40% chance of rain · 16:00 21°C, rain showers, 51% chance of rain · 19:00 19°C, light drizzle, 54% chance of rain · 22:00 17°C · 01:00 16°C, partly cloudy · 04:00 16°C, partly cloudy · 07:00 16°C, mainly clear · 10:00 22°C
Air qualitymoderate, US AQI 51 · modeled for the area by Copernicus CAMS, not measured by a monitor

From Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0), as of 13:00 GMT+3. A forecast, not a warning: for warnings, see the alerts above and your local authorities.

Sun and Moon over Nairobi, Sun Nov 8

Sunrises 06:11 in the ESE, sets 18:21 in the WSW, 75° up at its highest at 12:16 · 12 h 10 min of daylight, 5 s longer than yesterday
Golden hourmorning 05:58 to 06:39, evening 17:52 to 18:34
Blue hourmorning 05:49 to 05:58, evening 18:34 to 18:43
Twilightfirst light 05:49, last light 18:43
Moonnew Moon, 1% lit: rises 05:14 in the ESE, sets 17:40 in the WSW
Next Moonsnew Mon Nov 9 at 10:02, full Tue Nov 24 at 17:54
Sunsets aheadMon 18:21 · Tue 18:21 · Wed 18:21 · Thu 18:22 · Fri 18:22 · Sat 18:22 · Sun 18:22
Next solar eclipse hereAug 2, 2027, partial: 31% of the Sun covered at 14:01, 62° up
Next lunar eclipse hereJul 6, 2028, partial: at its deepest at 21:19, 36° up

Times on Nairobi's clock (GMT+3), worked out with astronomy-engine as this page was served.

Over Nairobi

Next ISS pass you can seeMon Nov 9 05:34 to 05:45 · 76° high · NW → SSE · every pass

How to read it

Nairobi is 1.3° from the equator, so its day hardly changes through the year: 12 hours 12 minutes of daylight around December 22, and 12 hours 3 minutes around June 21.

Sunset in Nairobi comes earliest around October 23, at about 18:21, and latest around January 31, at about 18:51. Nairobi keeps the same clock all year (Africa/Nairobi), so its sunset drifts with no jump.

Nairobi's evening golden hour, the Sun from 6° up to 4° below the horizon, lasts about 40 minutes all year, since the Sun drops almost straight down at this latitude.

Questions

What time is sunset in Nairobi today?

The list on this page gives it, worked out for today on Nairobi's clock, with the coming week's. Through the year Nairobi's sunset moves between about 18:21 and about 18:51.

When is golden hour in Nairobi today?

The list gives Nairobi's morning and evening golden hours, when the Sun is low and its light warm and long-shadowed, and the blue hours just outside them, on Nairobi's clock.

When is the next full Moon in Nairobi?

The list gives the date and time on Nairobi's clock, with today's phase and when the Moon rises and sets there. It's full at the same moment everywhere on Earth, so what differs in Nairobi is only the clock and when the Moon is up.

Are there any alerts near Nairobi right now?

This page lists what's active near Nairobi as it's served, with who issued it, and says which sources it checked and when, and which it couldn't. It's no warning service: in an emergency in Nairobi, follow your local authorities.

What's the weather doing over Nairobi right now?

This page gives Nairobi's conditions now and its next day hour by hour, with the chance of rain or snow, from Open-Meteo. The globe shows the latest satellite clouds and rain radar over Nairobi: drag it to see what's coming.

What is the air quality in Nairobi today?

This page gives Nairobi's US AQI as it's served, with the EPA's word for its band. It comes from Copernicus's CAMS forecast through Open-Meteo: a model for the area around Nairobi rather than a monitor's reading, so a station nearby can differ.

Sources

astronomy-engine, Don Cross
GOES-R Series GeoColor (GOES-East, GOES-West, GOES-19, GOES-18), NOAA / CIRA
MTG GeoColour (Meteosat Third Generation, MTG-I1), EUMETSAT
Himawari-9 AHI (Himawari), Japan Meteorological Agency
Global Mosaic of Geostationary Satellite Imagery (GMGSI), NOAA/NESDIS
NASA Global Imagery Browse Services (GIBS, Worldview), NASA EOSDIS
RainViewer, RainViewer
Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG, GPM IMERG Early Run), NASA
Open-Meteo, Open-Meteo
CAMS air quality forecasts (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service), Copernicus / ECMWF

The same view as a link: livex.earth/?clouds=1&radar=1&imerg=1&sats=off&launches=0&aurora=0&storms=0&severe=0&fires=0&quakes=0&lightning=0&events=0&snow=0&tsunami=0&lat=-1.29&lon=36.82&mag=3&city=nairobi&imagery=live

Drag to look around, scroll to zoom. Settings live in the URL, so any view can be shared.

Symbols

GDACS impact — low, medium, high: the humanitarian impact expected (hazard, people exposed, vulnerability), not the event's size.

Data

Earth NASA Blue Marble / Black Marble, GIBS (VIIRS true colour, Black Marble nightly, GOES GeoColor), EUMETSAT EUMETView (MTG GeoColour, Meteosat-9 IODC Natural Colour Enhanced); zoomed in closest, Sentinel-2 cloudless (s2maps.eu) by EOX IT Services GmbH, contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2025 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0; 2016, CC BY 4.0)
Moon NASA SVS / LRO
Clouds NOAA/NESDIS GMGSI; Himawari-9 (JMA) via NASA GIBS, live over East Asia and the west Pacific
Satellites CelesTrak
Launches The Space Devs, SpaceX via CelesTrak
Aurora, Sun image, space weather, ionosphere NOAA SWPC (GloTEC, D-RAP)
Meteors Global Meteor Network; fireballs and close approaches NASA/JPL CNEOS, ephemerides JPL Horizons
Buoys NOAA OSMC, NOAA NDBC (incl. DART); Argo floats: the International Argo Program, via NOAA OSMC
Storms, floods, wildfires, eruptions GDACS, NHC
Volcanic ash EUMETSAT Ash RGB (Geo Ring, MSG 0° and Indian Ocean), via EUMETView
Sea temperature GHRSST MUR (JPL, NASA PO.DAAC), via NASA GIBS
Land temperature NASA LANCE VIIRS (NOAA-20, NOAA-21, Suomi NPP) and MODIS (Aqua, Terra), via NASA GIBS
Soil moisture NASA SMAP Level 4 (GMAO), via NASA GIBS
Chlorophyll-a NASA OBPG MODIS (Aqua, Terra), via NASA GIBS
Winds, waves NOAA/NCEP GFS and GFS-Wave (WAVEWATCH III), via NOMADS
Ocean currents NASA OSCAR v2.0 (Earth & Space Research), via PO.DAAC
Coral bleaching heat stress NOAA Coral Reef Watch degree heating weeks (5 km, v3.1), via NOAA STAR
Aerosols NASA LANCE VIIRS Deep Blue optical depth (NOAA-20, NOAA-21, Suomi NPP) and OMPS aerosol index (Suomi NPP), via NASA GIBS
Flood extent NASA LANCE VIIRS global flood product, via NASA GIBS
US volcano alert levels USGS Volcano Hazards Program (HANS), with its positions; type and last eruption from the Smithsonian's Volcanoes of the World
Fires NASA FIRMS, EUMETSAT MTG Fire Radiative Power; US perimeters NIFC WFIGS
Quakes USGS, with its ShakeMaps; EMSC for Europe and the Mediterranean
Lightning NOAA GOES GLM, EUMETSAT MTG Lightning Imager
Snow & ice NOAA IMS, NSIDC
Smoke NOAA HMS
Radar RainViewer; satellite rain EUMETSAT H SAF H40B (MTG, EUMETView) and NASA GPM IMERG (GIBS)
Tsunami NOAA NTWC/PTWC, NWS; Japan: 出典：気象庁ホームページ (Japan Meteorological Agency, Public Data License 1.0)
Severe weather NOAA NWS, Storm Prediction Center (outlook, storm reports); Europe: MeteoAlarm, data by EUMETNET members (CC BY 4.0)
ISS telemetry NASA ISSLive
ISS model NASA / Michael D. Carbajal (NASA 3D Resources)
Borders, country names, states and provinces Natural Earth (public domain)
Places Natural Earth's populated places (public domain) and GeoNames via Open-Meteo; what's nearest your location: Wikidata (CC0)

URL parameters

`view`	`fixed` · `sunrel` · `orbit` · `moon` · `track`
`track`	what to follow: `iss`, `tiangong`, `satgus` (Mark Rober's Space Selfie satellite), `launch`, `sunrise`, `moonrise`
`lat`, `lon`	viewer position (fixed) or offset from the subsolar point (sunrel)
`period`, `inc`	orbit period (hours) and inclination (°)
`dist`	viewer distance in Earth radii; 0 = orthographic
`mag`, `rot`	size and rotation (°)
`wait`	seconds between redraws (default 60)
`time`, `speed`	ISO start time; clock multiplier
`clouds`, `lights`, `grid`, `markers`, `label`	`0` or `1`
`borders`	Country borders (Natural Earth), the disputed and undefined ones dashed, and once zoomed in, the countries’ names and the states’ and provinces’ lines, off by default (key `B`)
`terminator`	The day–night line (Sun on the horizon), with the twilight band’s edges dashed: the Sun 6° up and 6° down, off by default (key `Z`)
`stars`	`1`, `0`, or `photo` (dimmed like a camera exposed for sunlit Earth)
`sats`	`all` (Starlink + named), `featured`, or `0`
`aurora`, `storms`, `fires`, `quakes`	`0` hides that layer (keys `A` `H` `F` `E`)
`buoys`, `buoy`	Buoys on the globe, off by default (key `Shift+B`); `buoy=46026` opens that buoy’s window. Click a buoy to open it.
`meteors`	The last day’s meteors (Global Meteor Network), recent fireballs and the coming close approaches (NASA/JPL), off by default (key `Shift+M`)
`iono`	Ionosphere wash: `tec` electron content (GloTEC), `drap` HF radio absorption (D-RAP), or `0` (key `Shift+I`)
`lightning`, `events`, `snow`	lightning, GDACS floods/wildfires/eruptions with NASA's flood map and USGS's US volcano alert levels, snow and ice (keys `L` `D` `I`)
`sst`	Sea temperature: `temp`, `anomaly` (El Niño, marine heatwaves; `1` means this), or `0` (key `O`)
`lst`	Land surface temperature (VIIRS, MODIS): `auto` the afternoon’s by day and the night’s by night (`1` means this), `day`, `night`, or `0` (key `Shift`+`K`)
`soil`	Soil moisture (SMAP L4): `surface` the top 5 cm (`1` means this), `root` the root zone to 1 m, or `0` (key `Shift`+`W`)
`chl`	Chlorophyll-a (MODIS Aqua, Terra), the last eight days: `1` or `0` (key `Shift`+`O`; off by default)
`aerosol`	Aerosols: `aod` VIIRS optical depth (`1` means this), `index` the OMPS UV aerosol index, smoke and dust, or `0` (key `Shift`+`Y`; off by default)
`waves`, `wavesrc`	Wave height and direction (NOAA GFS-Wave, WAVEWATCH III) as trails that travel with the waves, coloured by height: `1` or `0` (off by default); folder holding its `latest.json`
`currents`, `currentsrc`	Ocean surface currents (NASA OSCAR, a daily mean, two or three days behind) as trails carried by them, coloured by speed: `1` or `0` (off by default; key `Q` cycles waves → currents → both → off); folder holding its `latest.json`
`coral`, `coralsrc`	Coral bleaching heat stress (NOAA Coral Reef Watch degree heating weeks), drawn within 35° of the equator: `1` or `0` (key `Shift`+`R`; off by default); folder holding its `latest.json`
`ash`	volcanic ash: EUMETSAT's Ash RGB, and GDACS's eruptions in a window (key `Shift`+`A`; off by default)
`aviation`	Aviation hazards: SIGMETs worldwide (NOAA AWC) and US airport ground stops and delays (FAA) (key `!`; off by default)
`radar`, `smoke`, `tsunami`	RainViewer radar, NOAA HMS smoke, NOAA tsunami alerts (keys `R` `Y` `Shift+T`)
`imagery`	`live` GOES and MTG pictures by day, `daily` yesterday’s VIIRS when zoomed in, `painted` neither; with `live` or `daily`, the newest night’s lights when zoomed in (key `Shift+P`; the older `truecolor=0/1` still works)
`severe`	Severe weather: NWS warning polygons and the SPC day-1 outlook (US), MeteoAlarm's warnings (Europe) (key `X`)
`imerg`	With the radar, satellite rain where there’s no radar: EUMETSAT H SAF (MTG) over Europe and Africa, NASA IMERG elsewhere (`R`’s middle step turns it off)
`relief`	terrain lit by the real Sun, from NOAA ETOPO 2022 (key `Shift+E`); 0 shows NASA's fixed shaded relief
`reliefscale`	terrain relief strength, 0.1–5 (default 1)
`isslive`	NASA ISS telemetry panel: `track` (while tracking the ISS), `1` (always) or `0` (key `Shift+L`)
`isscam`	`1` opens the camera in the ISS telemetry: the station from 120 m above, its solar arrays posed from the live telemetry, and the Earth below (the wheel zooms it, 30–120°)
`firehours`	show fires detected within this many hours, 1–24 (default 12)
`launches`	`0` hides launch mode (key `U`)
`bodies`, `bodyscale`	Sun and Moon on/off; enlarge their discs (1 = true size)
`fps`	`1` shows the frame-rate display (key `~`)
`feeds`	`1` shows the data-feeds dashboard: each source's last update and next check (key `Shift+U`)
`signup`	`1` opens the mailing list’s form (the mail button beside the share buttons)
`cloudsrc`, `satsrc`	folders holding each `latest.json`