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Kabul · 4,434,550 inhabitants · Thursday, October 29 · updated 21:35

Partly cloudy
15°
Partly cloudy
Feels like 15°C
Wind
6 km/h
Gusts
6 km/h
Humidity
33 %
Pressure
1019 hPa
Clouds
56 %
Storm
No
Rise 06:10 Set 17:03 Day 10 h 52 min UV 6 · High

Morning, afternoon, evening

Trend
Evening
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
15°9°
Feels like 15°
Wind ↑ N 6 km/h
Gusts 12 km/h
Humidity 33 %
22:00
Mainly clear
9°
N 1
01:00
Partly cloudy
10°
NNW 5

Kabul forecast in charts · next 7 days

The week ahead: highs and lows

▲ This week runs +4.4° warmer than usual
Highs Lows Usual for the season (1991–2020 average)
4°8°12°16°20°TodayFriSatSunMonTueWed17°6°Thu 29 Oct: max 18° · min 9° · normal 8.2°Fri 30 Oct: max 17° · min 6° · normal 8.0°Sat 31 Oct: max 18° · min 6° · normal 7.7°Sun 1 Nov: max 18° · min 7° · normal 7.7°Mon 2 Nov: max 17° · min 6° · normal 7.5°Tue 3 Nov: max 17° · min 6° · normal 7.2°Wed 4 Nov: max 17° · min 6° · normal 7.0°

Hourly detail

ThuFriSatSunMonTueWedThu5°13°20°18°6°02
Temperature (°C) Rain (mm) Wind (km/h)

Kabul climate: what a normal year looks like

Nights typically freeze from November to March, the coldest averaging −12 °C in January.

The hottest stretch is July, when afternoons average 29 °C; the coldest is January, when nights average −12 °C. Between those two months the average temperature changes by 28 °C.

A normal year brings roughly 470 mm of rain — less than 88% of the towns of 20,000+ people we compared it with.

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

Forecast highs for the coming week average 17 °C, 1 °C cooler than a normal October (18 °C).

30-year averages (1991–2020)
MonthTypical highTypical lowRainfall
Jan1 °C−12 °C49 mm
Feb2 °C−10 °C69 mm
Mar8 °C−3 °C79 mm
Apr16 °C4 °C86 mm
May22 °C9 °C64 mm
Jun27 °C13 °C17 mm
Jul29 °C16 °C10 mm
Aug29 °C15 °C5 mm
Sep25 °C11 °C9 mm
Oct18 °C5 °C18 mm
Nov11 °C−2 °C30 mm
Dec5 °C−8 °C30 mm
Whole year16 °C3 °C470 mm

Source: our own processing of the ERA5 reanalysis (Copernicus/ECMWF) for 34.53° N, 69.17° 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 Kabul: pollution and pollen

4/6
Poor
European Air Quality Index (EAQI), from Copernicus CAMS
PM2.526µg/m³
PM1029µg/m³

Copernicus CAMS model, updated several times a day.

Rain radar around Kabul

Rain observed over the last two hours by official weather radars around Kabul, followed by the radar forecast for the next hour where the weather service provides one.

Rain radar Last two hours, then forecast where available · drag the timeline

No open weather radar covers Kabul yet: the map shows our hour-by-hour rain forecast (ICON, GFS).

Moon over Kabul

Waning gibbous
87 % illuminated · 18.3 days
Rise 23:16 Set 13:50
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 (Asia/Kabul); phase and lit fraction from a synodic calculation.

Look up a past day in Kabul

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

Kabul weather at a glance

This page gathers everything about the weather in Kabul, Kabul: conditions now, the forecast for each part of the day and the trend for the coming week. At the moment the sky is “partly cloudy”, it is 15 °C (feels like 15 °C) and the wind blows at 6 km/h.

Expected range today: 9 °C to 18 °C and a dry sky. 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