Live Nairobi weather & travel essentials for visitors
Quick links to get around and plan your visit — how to get around safely, a live map of the city, real museums, and the wildlife experiences Nairobi is actually known for.
Most visitors’ default choice — order from your phone, fixed price shown upfront.
Often a little cheaper than Uber, just as widely used.
Matatus (shared minibuses) and a limited commuter rail also serve the city, but routes aren’t set up for visitors who don’t know Nairobi yet. Ride-hailing apps are the simplest and safest way to get around as a first-time visitor.
Kenya’s flagship museum — history, culture and natural history in one place, with botanical gardens on site.
The farmhouse from “Out of Africa”, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.
Traditional homesteads and live tribal dance performances from across Kenya’s cultures.
The only national park on Earth inside a capital city — lions and rhinos with the skyline behind them, 7km from downtown.
Feed endangered Rothschild giraffes by hand, eye to eye.
Watch orphaned baby elephants at their midday mud bath — book ahead, open one hour a day.
SkyTouristNairobi is a simple tool showing the current weather forecast for Nairobi, built for visitors planning their day. Data loads live on every visit from a public weather service, so the forecast is always current — no manual refreshing needed. We show current temperature, feels-like temperature, humidity, wind speed and precipitation, an hourly forecast for today, and a 7-day outlook with highs, lows and rain probability. The site also includes practical links for getting around the city, real museums, and the wildlife experiences Nairobi is actually known for.
Nairobi sits at around 1,800m above sea level, so it rarely gets very hot — pack layers, evenings can be cool even in the dry season. Malaria risk in the city centre itself is low because of the altitude, but most visitors continue on to lower-altitude safari destinations (Maasai Mara, Amboseli, the coast) where antimalarials are commonly recommended — check with a travel clinic before you go. If rain probability is above 50%, some Nairobi National Park roads can get muddy — an early morning game drive usually has better conditions than the afternoon.
Data loads live every time you open the page, and the weather service we use updates its models several times a day, so the forecast shown is always the latest available. The page also refreshes automatically every 30 minutes while open.
The forecast is generated for central Nairobi. Conditions in outer suburbs and at higher elevations (like Karen and Ngong) may vary slightly, especially temperature and rain during the two rainy seasons (March–May and October–December).
Weather data comes from Open-Meteo, a public weather service combining global forecast models (including ECMWF, GFS and ICON) — the same kind of models used by professional weather services. Air quality uses the same service’s global CAMS model, which is lower-resolution outside Europe but still a useful guide.
Yes, the page is fully mobile-friendly and can be added to your phone’s home screen as a shortcut.
This site does not collect personal data directly and does not require registration or sign-in. To show the forecast, we send an anonymous request to Open-Meteo (only Nairobi’s geographic coordinates, not visitor data).
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For questions, feedback or to report a forecast error, write to us at: contact@skytouristnairobi.com